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Brazil: unemployment grows in the first quarter of 2023, reveals IBGE

By João Pedro Magalhães

According to the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) released last Friday (28) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), there was an increase in unemployment in the first quarter of the year, reaching 8.8%.

The increase was the first after a long sequence of drops, but according to information from previous years, it is usual to have this increase in the first months of the year.

"This movement of shrinking occupation and expanding demand for work is observed in all the first quarters of the survey, except for 2022, marked by . . .

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