Paulo Novais / Lusa
Data from the first two quarters of the year in Portugal: more than half remained without employment, 27% got a job.
The National Institute of Statistics (INE) published updated data on the job in Portugal, namely flow statistics between states of the labor market, comparing the first with the second quarter this year.
In the statistics this Wednesday, INE highlights that more than half (54.2%) of people who were unemployed in the first quarter continued jobless Until June. There are almost 200,000 people in this situation.
The second largest “slice” is 27,3% (almost 100,000 people): They were unemployed until March but in the meantime get a job.
There is still another significant percentage: 18,6% (68.0 thousand) of the unemployed remain unemployed because stopped looking for a job; “They moved into inactivity.”
Most people who got a job in the second quarter were men: 30.5% of the total unemployed in the first quarter – against 24.3% women.
33.5% of short -term unemployed and 19.4% of the inactives belonging to the “potential labor force” had employment.
Still in this context, 24.3% of those who work for own account I got a job in the second quarter; The percentage descends a lot, to 9.5%, in workers due to others.
In relation to young people (from 16 to 34) who were unemployed in the first quarter: 23.4% started working, while 23.7% started attending teaching or training.
On the other hand, 3.2% of workers They changed their jobs among the first two quarters of this year.
3.8% of those who continued employees continued to have two or more jobs: 1.9% have had two or more jobs.
Nuno Teixeira da Silva, Zap //
