Covid-19 y su incidencia en el nivel de desempleo de la ciudad de Machala-ecuador en el año 2020.

Abstract

There is no doubt that with the arrival of the COVID-19 virus, the living conditions of most people were affected in one way or another. The high number of deaths due to contagion, the forced confinement and the new ways of working that most people had to adopt, are some of the main factors that led to this pandemic, giving technology a fundamental role in communications. The economic crisis that is currently being experienced as a direct consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic during the years 2020- 2021 increased a problem that was already evident with the lack of employment due to the drastic fall of the labor market, that is to say that at present, taking as a reference the previous years, only two out of ten Ecuadorians have full employment, which means that they have a job that guarantees the fulfillment of their labor rights. The population groups that are most at risk of losing their jobs are young immigrants and women with a high unemployment rate in the productive sector due to the health crisis in the medium term, because their employment is more unstable and temporary, the impediment of not being able to perform their work remotely or adjust to the conditions required by the employer, this creates a different impact on the labor force between different population groups, which leads us to highlight the existing labor inequality in the labor market.