Its percentage was 13.2% unemployment in the country in the fourth quarter of last year, from 13% in the third quarter of 2021 and compared to 16.2% in the fourth quarter of 2020.
The number of unemployed amounted to 617,431 people, showing an increase of 0.3% compared to the previous quarter and a decrease of 17.7%, compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year.
400,000 unemployed have been looking for work for over a year
The majority of the unemployed (64.7%) or about 400,000 people are looking for work for a year or more (long-term unemployed). The percentage of unemployed who have not worked in the past (young unemployed) is 20.4%. Also, the majority of the unemployed have completed secondary education (59%). The percentage of unemployed who declare that they are not registered with OAED amounts to 17.1%, while the percentage of those who state that they receive an allowance or assistance from OAED amounts to 16%.
The main reasons why the unemployed stopped working are either because their work was of limited duration and ended (36.8%) or because they were fired (15.9%).
According to the ELSTAT labor force survey, the unemployment rate for women was 17.5%, compared to 9.8% for men.
In terms of age, the highest percentages are recorded in the groups of 15-19 years (50.3%) and 20-24 years (29.4%). The following are the ages 25-29 years (20.2%), 30-44 years (13.6%), 45-64 years (9.8%) and 65 years and over (7.2%).
At the level of regions of the country, in the first three places are the North Aegean (18.8%), Western Macedonia (17.2%) and Crete (16.9%). They are followed by Central Greece (16.1%), the South Aegean (15.9%), Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (15.7%), Western Greece (15.3%), Central Macedonia (14.7%). %), Thessaly (13.3%), the Ionian Islands (12.6%), the Peloponnese (12%), Attica (10.6%) and Epirus (10%).
The number of employees is 4,053,275
The number of employees amounted to 4,053,275 people, showing a decrease of 1.6% compared to the previous quarter and an increase of 4.5% compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year.
The largest percentage of employees work as employees (68.9%), while the percentage of the self-employed without staff is also important (20.1%). The percentage of part-time work amounts to 9.1%, while the percentage of people who have temporary work to 6.3%.
Part-time employment appears increased (10.6%) both compared to the previous quarter and compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year (22.7%).
Temporary employment has decreased compared to the previous quarter (23.4%) and has increased compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year (1.5%).
The occupations that account for the largest percentage of employees are those employed in the provision of services and sales (22.7%) and professionals (21.1%).
Compared to the previous quarter, there is an increase in professionals and skilled farmers, stockbreeders, foresters and fishermen (4.3% and 2.9% respectively), while a decrease is observed in senior managers and administrators (7.8), in employees office operators (5.1%) and operators of industrial facilities, machinery and equipment (5.1%).
Compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year, the largest increase is seen in skilled farmers, stockbreeders, foresters and fishermen and unskilled workers, craftsmen and small professionals (16.7% and 13%, respectively), while a decrease is observed in technicians and practitioners. related occupations (9%).
The largest percentage of employees (49.4%) stated that they worked 40-47 hours per reference week, while a significant percentage (19.3%) stated that they worked 48 hours or more. The majority of employees (80.7%) state that they worked the usual hours during the reference week. 11% of employees say they would like to work more hours, 4.5% are part-time underemployed who would like to work more and could start working more within the next two weeks, and 1.6% has more than one job.
The number of people not included in the workforce, or “people outside the workforce” (people who are not working or looking for work) amounted to 4,389,308 people.
In particular, the number of people out of the labor force under the age of 75 amounted to 3,185,271 people. Their percentage increased by 1.8% compared to the previous quarter and decreased by 2.2% compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year.
45.5% of the unemployed have never worked
The majority of people outside the workforce aged 15-74 have either never worked before (45.5%) or it has been more than 8 years since they quit their last job (29.2%).
Of those who have worked in the last 8 years, the largest percentage stopped working because they retired (55.1%) or because their work was of limited duration and ended (18.9%).
91.5% of people outside the workforce say they would not like to work. 0.7% say they are looking for a job but are not immediately available to take it, while 5% say they are available to take a job immediately but are not looking.
Finally, the survey data show that absenteeism decreased compared to the third quarter of 2021 due to summer leave, as well as compared to the fourth quarter of 2020, where emergency public health measures took effect. from the risk of further spread of COVID-19. Respectively, working hours increased in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared to the above two quarters (third of 2021 and fourth of 2020).
The percentage of people aged 20-64 who are available to take up work immediately but are not looking, shows a large increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2020 and a small increase compared to the third quarter of 2021.
In addition, compared to the fourth quarter of 2020, absenteeism decreased in all sectors of economic activity, while the smallest decrease was observed in agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Compared to the third quarter of 2021, there is a decrease in all sectors, except agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
Compared to the third quarter of 2021, working hours increased in the sectors of industry and energy, construction, financial and business activities and other services and decreased in the sector of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, while they decreased marginally in the sector of trade, hotels, restaurants, transport and communications.
Compared to the fourth quarter of 2020, working hours increased in all sectors of economic activity, with the most important being observed in trade, hotels, restaurants, transport and communications, while in agriculture, forestry and fisheries. the increase was marginal.
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