Chile experienced a rise in its unemployment rate, reaching 8.5 percent in the final quarter of 2023, as reported by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). This figure marks a 0.6 percentage point increase from the same period in the previous year. The INE‘s National Employment Survey attributes this increase to the labor force’s growth […]
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