The Mexican economy exceeded one million formal jobs created so far in 2022with which it reached a historical maximum of positions, reported this Tuesday the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS).
Only so far in 2022, from January 2022 to November 13 of this year, more than 1 million jobs have already been created in the country,” said Zoé Robledo, general director of the IMSS, at the press conference. government daily.
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The head of the IMSS, in charge of registering formal employment in the country, recalled that in October 2021 Mexico had recovered the jobs that were lost during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mexico had 20.6 million formal workers registered with the IMSS in February 2020, but it lost almost 1.19 million formal positions between March and July 2020.
But Robledo explained that the country recovered the jobs lost in October 2021, when the IMSS registered almost 20.77 million and now there is a historical record of 21.65 million positions.
We are going to already have more than 1 million in employment this year, from the surplus employment after the pandemic”, highlighted the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, at the conference at the National Palace.
The president gave these data when defending his government’s macroeconomic policy.
But although the IMSS is the main indicator of formal work in Mexico, The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) revealed in its latest employment survey that almost six out of 10 Mexicans work in the informal sector.
López Obrador also reported a 4% increase in government revenue in real terms so far this year to 4.06 trillion pesos.
But he recognized that tax revenues have fallen 0.7%, particularly due to the subsidy of more than 300,000 million pesos to the special tax on production and services (IEPS) paid by gasoline.
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