Formal employment grows in the Federal District, but falls in Brazil.
Data released by Caged shows that Brasília experienced growth of 2,27% in the first four months of the year; while the national average suffered a significant reduction.
Brasilia 247 – The Ministry of Labor and Employment released last Thursday (17) the data from the General Register of Employed and Unemployed (Caged) which showed the growth of 4.432 professionals with formal employment contracts in the Federal District in April.
Compared to the previous month, there was a 0,61% increase in the number of formal jobs in the Federal District. The sectors that contributed most to this growth were services (3.454 new jobs) and commerce (763 new jobs).
While employment in Brazil is declining, in Brasília the first four months of this year resulted in an increase of 16.326 jobs (+2,27%).
According to national data, from January to April 2012, 702.059 formal jobs were created. This represents a 20.2% decrease compared to the same period last year (+880.717 formal jobs).
Federal government figures show that this is the worst performance for the first four months of a year since 2009, when 48.454 formal jobs were created.
At that time, the country was feeling the effects of the first stage of the international financial crisis, triggered in September 2008 by the bankruptcy of the American bank Lehman Brothers. The historical series of the Caged (General Register of Employed and Unemployed Workers) begins in 1992.