Repercusiones del covid-19 en el desempleo en las familias residentes en puerto Jelí del cantón Santa Rosa, año 2021

Abstract

The degree work is oriented to the study of the repercussions of COVID-19 on unemployment in the families residing in the Puerto Jelí Urban Parish of the Santa Rosa canton. The project will cover situations related to the unemployment experienced by families in the sector with the advent of Covid-19 and the sanitary measures adopted by the Ecuadorian Government. The partial paralysis of productive activities and the closure of commercial premises reflected negative consequences within the sector, directly affecting the economic income of the inhabitants The main objective of the research is to determine what is the impact of unemployment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on families residing in the Urban Parish of Puerto Jelí, of the Santa Rosa Canton, 2021, therefore the specific objectives were aimed at establishing the types of productive activities that were affected by the state of emergency and the socio-family confinement ordered by the government as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; determining the levels of unemployment in families due to the paralysis of productive activities; identifying how economically affected the families of Puerto Jelí the mandatory closure of productive activities decreed by the National Government; and establishing as an effect the paralysis of productive activities in the quality of family life and in good community living. The titling work at first presents the characteristic of descriptive research, consequently explanatory and propositional from the empirical – inductive epistemological approach, linked to a quantitative methodological approach that required the use of research techniques and information collection instruments to obtain the veracity of the facts and events that establishes the importance of objective information in social research, such as direct observation, interview and survey with a sample of 185 people who were applied in situ, which made it possible to achieve greater objectivity in the results. In addition, it is based on the sociological current of structural functionalism, which refers to the study of a society known as a social structure or system, where the subject builds knowledge from his previous experience and through an interaction with the environment. The empirical results reflect the presence of some social and economic problems that affect the inhabitants of the sector, of which is unemployment, the economic effects due to the paralysis and decrease in productive activities, the decrease in food services, the closure of commercial premises and the scarce employment opportunity due to the little existence of tourism, In addition, these events have decreased the quality of life, preventing the satisfaction of their needs in the different families of the place, therefore the development of an intervention proposal was considered that is to design a training plan on family enterprises in agreement with the Municipal GAD, this will allow the site to improve working conditions, obtaining an adequate salary remuneration and the well-being of each family, so that they achieve the satisfaction of their needs.