After the prolonged corona 19 pandemic, the number of employed in the wholesale, retail, lodging and food industry in the province has been declining for 12 consecutive months. The number of employed people decreased by 22,000 (3.0%) compared to a year ago when the Corona 19 epidemic began in earnest to 737,000. .
In the sectors where the number of employed workers markedly declined last month, the sectors hit by social distancing were self-employed, such as wholesale and retail, lodging and restaurant businesses, and business, private, and public services. Compared to the previous year, the number of employed decreased by 12,000 (6.1%). In the wholesale, retail and lodging and restaurant businesses, the number of employed has decreased for 12 consecutive months since March last year, compared to the same month last year. The number of employed decreased by 15,000 (4.7%) compared to the previous year. Business, private, and public services showed a decrease in the number of employed for the third month since December last year. Wholesale and retail, lodging and restaurant business and business, private, and public services The continued decline in the number of employed people in the industry is analyzed by the weakening of the ability to create jobs of self-employed businesses such as restaurants in the province due to social distancing.
The impact of employment in the Gangwon region was greater for women who were highly dependent on self-employed employment. The number of women employed was 329,000, a decrease of 28,000 (7.8%) from the previous year (356,000). In February, the number of men employed was 408,000, a decrease of 6,000 (1.3%) from the previous year. The face-to-face service industry, which is heavily affected by Corona 19, was hit by a direct hit, resulting in a large number of female workers in Gangwon. It is interpreted as a decrease.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate in the Gangwon region last month was 6.3%, up 1.6%p from a year ago (4.6%). The number of unemployed was 49,000, 12,000 (31.6%) from February last year (37,000). Increased. Jeon So-yeon