Young Professionals in Their Twenties Are Happy Working Again

By: Together Abroad 22-08-2016 12:54 PM
Categories: * Daily employment news,


Unemployment among 25 to 30 year olds has dropped considerably since 2014. Last quarter therewere only 5% of young men at home.
That group has long been difficult in the labour market. Including the financial crisesthere was even 7.7% of pre-30s with no work. Before the economic downturn, the unemployment rate in this group was extremely low, at 2.6%, according to figures published by Statistics Netherlands.
The troubles with 25- to 30-year olds today are that they often have to start their career only when few employers haveopened new job positions.

Flexibility
Relatively speaking, young people have more work than a few years back, but more often they get a flexible contract and they have to be satisfied with it. These are fixed-term contracts where the number of hours may vary.
Between 2008 and 2012 not even a quarter of 25- to 30-year-olds had a flexible contract. In 2016 that proportion has risen to 31%.

Source: http://www.rtlnieuws.nl




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