Share of unemployed in Argentina Q1 2019-Q1 2022, by time in unemployment
Between the second quarter of 2021 and the first quarter of 2022, over 40 percent of unemployed people in Argentina had been without a job for a period longer than a year. More especifically, 42 percent of those out of employment in the last surveyed period had been unemployed for more than a year. Another 37 percent found themselves in that situation for less than three months, the largest share since the second quarter of 2020, when the country witnessed the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.