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Global unemployment to increase in 2024, ILO warns

Unemployment

The Matters Press by The Matters Press
January 11, 2024
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New York, Jan. 11, 2024: Global unemployment is expected to rise in 2024, with glowing inequality and stagnant productivity also a cause for concern on the economic horizon, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned.

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ILO gave the warning in a statement on Wednesday.

The UN labour agency stated that just over five per cent of the world’s workforce is without a job, according to the World Employment and Social Outlook Trends 2024 report.

This is a better situation than before the pandemic but it isn’t set to last, as an extra two million people are expected to be looking for a job over the next 12 months, the ILO said.

The UN agency’s findings chime with a new World Bank report released on Tuesday, indicating that the global economy is on track for the slowest half-decade of growth in 30 years.

In addition to the uncertain jobs market outlook, ILO noted that the majority of the world’s richest nations had seen living standards eroded, because of inflation, which is now in decline in many major economies.

The erosion of living standards resulting from inflation is,“unlikely to be compensated quickly”, the UN agency said.

ILO experts underscored that there were significant differences between higher and lower income countries. While the jobs gap rate (the number of jobless who are looking for work) in 2023 was 8.2 per cent in richer nations, it stood at 20.5 per cent in poorer countries.

Similarly, while the 2023 unemployment rate stuck at 4.5 per cent for wealthier countries, it was 5.7 per cent in low-income countries.

ILO Director-General, Gilbert Houngbo warned that “falling living standards and weak productivity combined with persistent inflation create the conditions for greater inequality and undermine efforts to achieve social justice.

“And without greater social justice we will never have a sustainable recovery.” He called for workforce challenges overall to be tackled quickly and effectively.”

Despite quickly declining after 2020, the number of workers living in extreme poverty (earning less than US$2.15 per person per day) grew by about a million in 2023.

“Income inequality has also widened, the trends show the erosion of real disposable income, bodes ill for aggregate demand and a more sustained economic recovery.”

Despite various policy initiatives to tackle the underground economy, the number of people employed informally is expected to remain static, accounting for around 58 per cent of the global workforce in 2024.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency in May 2023 but the aftershocks of the pandemic were still being felt, the ILO report revealed.

Residual symptoms and health problems for those 20 per cent or so who suffered ‘long COVID’ persist for many and have impacted productivity.”

Many who re-entered the labour market post-pandemic tended not to be working the same number of hours while the number of sick days taken had increased significantly.

Women’s participation in the job market had bounced back quickly but a notable gender gap still persisted, especially in emerging and developing nations. Youth unemployment rates continued to present a challenge.

The report also found that despite technological advances and increased investment, productivity growth had continued to slow.

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