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Chile employment and economic outlook updates

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Chile ~~employment, SME support~~ employment and ~~sector~~ economic outlook updates

Chile’s labor market ~~is experiencing complex shifts characterized~~ and broader economy are navigating a period of transition marked by short-term challenges and cautious optimism. While previous data showed rising unemployment and ~~persistent~~ regional ~~disparities. While the Metropolitan region leads in employment subsidy applications, the Maule region has emerged as the second highest in the country. In Maule, 680 companies~~ disparities, recent economic reports indicate a projected slowdown, with growth expected to be less than 1% this year due to declining fixed investment and a weakened labor market influenced by high hiring costs and technological substitution. Despite this immediate slowdown, medium-term projections suggest an improved outlook. Fixed investment growth expectations have ~~applied~~ been raised to 8.1% for ~~the subsidy, covering 2,200 workers. Local authorities, including Labor Seremi Ervin Castillo Arancibia~~ next year and ~~Senator Andrea Balladares, noted~~ 7.1% for 2028, supported by the ~~program’s role~~ Reconstruction Law. While inflation may temporarily exceed 4.3% in ~~boosting the economy and supporting female employment. National unemployment rose~~ December, it is expected to ~~9.5% for~~ converge toward target levels in the ~~May-July period, a 0.8 percentage point increase from~~ coming year. Regarding employment specifically, the ~~previous year, marking~~ ManpowerGroup Employment Expectations Survey (MEOS) reports a ~~five-year high. While~~ 15% Net Employment Index (NEO) for the ~~probability~~ final quarter of ~~unemployed individuals finding formal work rose~~ 2026. This marks a three-percentage-point increase from ~~2.1% to 2.5% weekly,~~ the ~~overall rate of exiting unemployment into any form~~ third quarter of ~~work declined from 5.0% to 4.3%, driven by fewer transitions into informal work. Data indicates~~ 2026, though it remains lower than levels seen in 2025. Jorge Gamero, regional director for ManpowerGroup Chile-Peru, noted that ~~individuals without university education~~ while companies are ~~significantly more likely~~ “gradually regaining their willingness to ~~fall into informal labor. Regional trends remain highly divergent. The Ñuble region recorded the highest unemployment in~~ hire,” the ~~country at 11.0%, with female unemployment at 13.7%~~ primary challenge is sustaining this optimism and an informality rate of 34.5%, exacerbated by agricultural setbacks at the Iansa plant. In Biobío, the occupied population decreased by 2.7%, losing over 19,000 jobs as formal private salaried employment fell by 4.7%. Conversely, the Aysén region reported the country’s lowest unemployment rate at 4.0%, accompanied by a notable decrease in female unemployment, which dropped extending it across industries to ~~4.5%.~~ foster formal employment.

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