More than half of all long-term unemployed find work in other sector
More than half of unemployed workers, who have been without work for more than one year, usually find employment in a different sector from where they were working before.
Results of research performed by UWV proved this last Wednesday. Furthermore, the long-term unemployed (unemployed for more than one year) find work approximately three months quicker than jobseekers only searching for work in their own field. The number of long-term unemployed workers has been on the rise for quite some time. Figures supplied by CBS showed that in the third quarter of 2012 this number reached 229.000 long-term workers. And this in a time when it has become exceedingly difficult to find work after having been without a job for more than one year, according to the UWV. For this reason, people will look for work outside their own occupational group.
Building industry
Especially long-term unemployed workers from the fields of agriculture, industry and construction find employment in a different sector (about 70 per cent). Of unemployed people previously working in public administration, 75 per cent find work elsewhere. This does not apply to the care and education sectors because in these fields training qualifications make it more difficult to find work without relevant work experience. Research does not show in which fields these jobseekers finally end up. In the care, financial and corporate sectors however, it is much easier for the long-term unemployed to find work again.
Unemployment Netherlands
The UWV does not have a positive outlook over the coming year when it comes to employment. Earlier this year the authority announced it expects 85.000 fewer jobs. The number of people on unemployment benefit will therefore increase. In 2011 there were 270.000 people on unemployment benefits and in 2012 this number rose to 340.000. The UWV expects this number to have risen to almost 380.000 in 2013. The number of job-seekers registered with the UWV is also on the increase. At the end of 2012 this number was 569.000 but will increase to 649.000 people in 2013, the UWV expects.
Source CBS / UWV
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