Open Unemployment in Argentina: Jumped to 7.5% from 6.4%.

[earlyretirement]

A significant step back for the Argentine labor market, with new INDEC data showing considerable strain in the Q4 of 2025. 🇦🇷📉

While open unemployment is up, the broader pressures on the workforce are the real red flag.

📊 Key data from Q4 2025 vs. Q4 2024 (across 31 urban areas):

• Open Unemployment: Jumped to 7.5% from 6.4%. This is a statistically significant increase and translates to nearly 1.7 million people nationwide affected.
• The Squeeze: Crucially, 16.5% of the employed workforce is actively seeking new jobs (Ocupados demandantes). This is a massive number and a direct indicator of severely squeezed purchasing power. People are employed but their wages aren't sufficient.
• Persistent Issues: Underemployment (Subocupación) remains stubbornly flat at 11.3%. The quality of available jobs isn't improving.
• Stagnant Activity: The overall labor participation rate (Actividad) is flat to slightly declining, suggesting a lack of new job creation in the current environment.

🏠 Broad Macroeconomic Impact:

This is more than just statistics. It indicates a stressed domestic consumer base. A labor market with rising unemployment and high demand from underpaid workers will almost certainly lead to:

• 📉 Downward pressure on domestic retail and local consumer spending.
• 🔄 A widening disparity between the domestic-focused economy and foreign capital or export-driven sectors.

 

[import export]

And that is directly from INDEC. I know many people that lost their jobs. Some can't find another. Some are doing Rappi or Uber but they aren't making anything compared to what they were making before. Many are underemployed.

 

[Lucia]

It’s honestly crazy how many factories and businesses have shut down since Milei took office in December 2023. It’s already around 22,000 companies, that’s a huge number of lost jobs. Meanwhile, the government keeps asking people to be patient…

Cuántas empresas cerraron desde que asumió Javier Milei como presidente en Argentina

Reforma laboral cuántas empresas cierran con Javier Milei. Cuántas empresas cerraron con Javier Milei. Qué sectores tuvieron despidos con Javier Milei.

www.eldestapeweb.com

 

[sell1980]

It’s honestly crazy how many factories and businesses have shut down since Milei took office in December 2023. It’s already around 22,000 companies, that’s a huge number of lost jobs. Meanwhile, the government keeps asking people to be patient…

Cuántas empresas cerraron desde que asumió Javier Milei como presidente en Argentina

Reforma laboral cuántas empresas cierran con Javier Milei. Cuántas empresas cerraron con Javier Milei. Qué sectores tuvieron despidos con Javier Milei.

www.eldestapeweb.com

I keep seeing news about companies and factories shutting down all the time. Argentina is really going through a major crisis.

Se agrava la crisis láctea: otra empresa dejó de pagar sueldos y hay preocupación por el futuro de sus 80 trabajadores

Sudamericana de Lácteos entró en crisis en medio del cambio de dueños y enfrenta deudass. En Santa Fe ya analizan que la planta pueda quedar en manos de los empleados

www.infobae.com

 

[ElQueso]

Wonder when the patience will wear off. His saving grace is there is no alternative candidate. Too much party in flighting and they are fragmented and no one wants a return of Peronism except the same people that will always want it.