The situation that created the Covid-19 pandemic has marked the labor market and its recovery has depended and depends on the realities of each country.
The specialist of the International Labor Organization (ILO), Roxana Maurizio, stated that The pandemic has created in the region an economic, health, labor and social crisis that has unprecedented characteristics and intensity, a crisis without antecedents despite the great crises that the region has experienced.
Maurizio explained that there have been two clearly marked stages, the first, a sharp contraction in economic activity and jobs. “Basically, in the first half of 2020, approximately 43 million jobs were lost in the region, between the first and second quarters of last year ”.
In an interview with the radio program “Mujeres de Peso”, the ILO specialist responsible for the study “Employment and informality in Latin America and the Caribbean: an insufficient and unequal recovery”, revealed that the world is still experiencing a partial process of recovery because of the 43 million jobs that were lost, only about 29 million have been recovered.
“In other words, there are still 14 million jobs that have not been recovered, which represents 30%, which means that there are a third of the occupations that existed prior to the pandemic that have yet to be recovered.", highlighted the ILO expert.
Women still to recover 40% of employment
This is why the specialist qualifies as insufficient and uneven, led by informal jobs the process of economic recovery countries have lived in the region, including the Dominican Republic.
He added that women are clearly the ones who continue to be most affected by these job losses. He argued that d70% of jobs that have been recovered, 77% belong to men and less than 60% to women.
“In the case of women there are still 40% of female positions that have not recovered”, Said Roxana Maurizio pointing out that this generates a very significant historical decline in the economic participation rate of women.
He added that tourism and domestic work were two of the sectors hardest hit by the pandemic and have been slowly recovering.
Situation of the Dominican Republic
As in the region, the Dominican Republic has not yet recovered the number of jobs lost during the Covid-19 crisis. He said the unemployment rate in the first quarter of 2020 is higher than in the first quarter of 2021. "In the first quarter of 2020 the unemployment rate in the Dominican Republic was 5.7 and this year it was 8% and the same happens in terms of gender".
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