Difficult for young unemployed to find work

By: Together Abroad 06-11-2014 5:23 PM
Categories: * Daily employment news,

The Central Bereau of Statistics of Netherlands (CBS) revealed that young people with low educational qualifications have the most difficulty finding a job. Nearly 100 thousand young people between the 15-26 age bracket, who no longer participated in education or training programmes were unemployed in the first quarter of 2014. Three months later, only three in every 10 of them  had found a job for at least 12 hours a week.. During the past decade, the proportion of young people with low levels of education who found work within a short period of time has never been so low.

In the first quarter of this year, only 31% of young unemployed with low education or who have stopped studying had found work after three months. This is the lowest figure in the past 10years. Shortly, after the outbreak of the economic crisis at the end of 2008, it became increasingly difficult for young unemployed school leavers to find a job within a reasonable time frame. In the first quarter of 2008, more than half had found a job after three months, versus nearly 40% in the same quarter of 2009. In 2010 and 2011, the situation on the labour market improved temporarily, making it easier for young unemployed to find work within a short period of time. When the situation on the labour market deteriorated once more in 2012, young unemployed again faced a difficult period.

In the first quarter of this year, 30 thousand young unemployed had a low education level, 52 thousand were secondary school educated and 16 thousand had a high level of education. In particular for young unemployed educated at secondary level, it has become more difficult during the past period to find a job for at least 12 hours a week. Two three-year periods were compared to obtain reliable statistical results. The proportion of young unemployed educated at secondary level, who had found work after three months averaged 31% over the period 2012-2014, i.e. 16 percentage points below the average level over the period 2009-2011. For lower educated young unemployed, the situation was less dramatic; the proportion fell by 5 percentage points to 25% in the period 2012-2014.

The corresponding figure for higher educated young unemployed remained virtually stable at more than 50%.



 

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