{"id":11255,"date":"2025-03-02T14:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmklawyers.com\/?p=11255"},"modified":"2025-03-02T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:42:14","slug":"the-dominican-labor-market-exceeds-five-million-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmklawyers.com\/en\/the-dominican-labor-market-exceeds-five-million-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dominican labor market exceeds five million workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The informality rate was reduced to 54.8%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The labor market in the Dominican Republic reached a record number of 5,050,930 workers in the October-December 2024 quarter, according to the latest Macroeconomic Situation Report from the Ministry of Economy, Planning, and Development (MEPyD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This growth represented the creation of 97,988 new jobs compared to the same period in 2023, contributing to the highest employment rate ever recorded (62.3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the informality rate was reduced to 54.8%, the lowest ever recorded, although gender gaps and wage inequalities persist within the informal sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seg\u00fan una infograf\u00eda de la<strong>&nbsp;Oficina Nacional de Estad\u00edsticas<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>ONE<\/strong>), en 2023, el 94.5 % de los&nbsp;<strong>trabajadores<\/strong>&nbsp;del&nbsp;<strong>servicio dom\u00e9stico<\/strong>&nbsp;se encontraba en condiciones de&nbsp;<strong>informalidad<\/strong>. Las actividades con mayor proporci\u00f3n de empleados informales fueron Comercio (26.8 %), Otros Servicios (25.9 %), Construcci\u00f3n (14.9 %) y Agricultura y Ganader\u00eda (13.4 %).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detalla que, en&nbsp;<strong>t\u00e9rminos salariales<\/strong>, los hombres en el sector informal ganaron un promedio de 126.2 pesos por hora, unos 32.0 pesos m\u00e1s que las mujeres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The labor market in the Dominican Republic reached a record number of 5,050,930 workers in the October-December 2024 quarter, according to the latest Macroeconomic Situation Report from the Ministry of Economy, Planning, and Development (MEPyD). 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