Youth employment rates in Romania – people aged 20 to 24 – was 36.6 percent in 2009, going down to nearly 35 percent in the first quarter of 2010, among the smallest in the European Union, according to data with the Romanian National Statistics Institute (INS) released on Monday. Youth employment in 2005 was over 40 percent, but has dropped each following year. Long-term unemployment (12 months and more) among young people was 10.3 percent in 2009, six times more than the 1.7 percent unemployment rate among the older population. Elderly employment rate – 55-64 years – was 42.6 percent in 2009, 3.4 percent smaller than the EU averages, having declined to below 40 percent in Q1 2010. In the first three months of 2010, employment of people aged 20 to 64 was 61.6 percent, down 0.6 percentage points from the previous quarter and 0.8 percent from the similar period of 2009. The employed population declined 3.4 percent in Q1 2010 from Q1 2009, from 9.097 million to 8.788 million. The number of the employees in the same interval dropped from 6.583 million to 6.486 million, while the number of the self-employed went down from 2.514 million to 2.301 million.
Youth employment rates in Romania – people aged 20 to 24 – was 36.6 percent in 2009, going down to nearly 35 percent in the first quarter of 2010, among the smallest in the European Union, according to data with the Romanian National Statistics Institute (INS) released on Monday.
ReplyDeleteYouth employment in 2005 was over 40 percent, but has dropped each following year. Long-term unemployment (12 months and more) among young people was 10.3 percent in 2009, six times more than the 1.7 percent unemployment rate among the older population. Elderly employment rate – 55-64 years – was 42.6 percent in 2009, 3.4 percent smaller than the EU averages, having declined to below 40 percent in Q1 2010.
In the first three months of 2010, employment of people aged 20 to 64 was 61.6 percent, down 0.6 percentage points from the previous quarter and 0.8 percent from the similar period of 2009. The employed population declined 3.4 percent in Q1 2010 from Q1 2009, from 9.097 million to 8.788 million.
The number of the employees in the same interval dropped from 6.583 million to 6.486 million, while the number of the self-employed went down from 2.514 million to 2.301 million.