Panama Unemployment with advanced education, male (% of male labor force with advanced education)

Panama Unemployment with advanced education, male (% of male labor force with advanced education): Key Points

• The 2023 figure for Panama's unemployment with advanced education, male is 4.06 % of male labor force with advanced edu. Back in 2014 it was 2.28 % of male labor force with advanced edu — a rise of about 78% across the years in between.
• 2016: spikes to 2.99 % of male labor force with advanced edu (+33%).
• 2018-2019: leaps to 4.45 % of male labor force with advanced edu (+59%).
• 2020: shoots up to 10.59 % of male labor force with advanced edu (+138%).
• 2021: caves in to 6.07 % of male labor force with advanced edu (-43%).
• Take the whole run together and it's a 78.3% gain, landing at 4.06 % of male labor force with advanced edu by 2023.

Reading The COVID Jobs Shock

This is not a clean trend line, so resist the urge to draw one. Panama's number moves both directions across the period — treat any single year as a snapshot, not a forecast.

This isn't unique to this economy — the pandemic hit labor markets broadly in 2020, and this chart shows the same disruption most countries experienced.

The pace of this recovery fits the broader picture: reopening let hiring resume quickly almost everywhere, producing a similar rebound in most countries' labor markets.

Worth pairing this with the same indicator for a handful of comparable economies before concluding anything about Panama specifically — a move that looks large here can be the regional norm, or genuinely unusual, and this chart alone can't say which.

Source here is a national/international statistics body, not a live measurement — most time series like this are interpolated or modeled between actual survey years. Treat the trend as the real signal, individual years as approximate.