So, at 35 years old, Luis began the journey that many Mexicans face: a prolonged job search. His ordeal spread almost a year until he found a new opportunity in formal employment.
This is a story that more than one could tell in Mexico.
In the first quarter of the year, 14 entities in the country showed an increase in the population that indicated that it had remained without employment between six months and up to a yearthis in comparison with the same period in 2023.
According to information from the National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE) from Inegi, Nuevo León, Colima, Durango, Hidalgo, Baja California, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Morelos, Chihuahua, State of Mexico, Nayarit, Oaxaca and Querétaro were the states that had an increase in people who indicated that it took that long to find a new job.
The increase by entity: Nuevo León and Colima lead
The ENOE data indicate that the entities with the greatest increase in the population that looked for work between six months and up to a year were Nuevo León, with an increase of 366%; With the same percentage is Colima, followed by Durango, with 305%, and Hidalgo, with 248%.
From there we jump to Baja California, which had an increase of 70%; Aguascalientes, 47%; San Luis Potosí, 39%, and Zacatecas, 34%.
With a lower percentage is Morelos, with an increase of 15%; Chihuahua, 6%, and State of Mexico, 2%.
The cases of Nayarit, Oaxaca and Querétaro stand out, which had registered zero people in this situation in the first quarter of 2023, but for the same period of 2024 cases were already reported.
All with very different population densities, but who share the increase in people who have found it difficult to find work in less than half a year.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) notes that for a person who has lost their job, a reasonable period to find a new job is six months or less.
For Luis this scoop did not apply. What they gave him as settlement ran out in the fourth month, which deepened his emotional deterioration and was also the trigger for his separation from his partner. “The complaints became constant, the money was not enough, until my partner kicked me out of the house,” he points out.
Although in the first quarter of 2024, the national average of the unemployment rate of the economically active population was at a historical minimum (2.5%), in several of the aforementioned entities it was above this percentage.
For a decade, the ILO warned that the decline in unemployment rates in some countries hid a “bitter” reality for workers: more difficulty finding work in less time.
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