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25,6% of those unemployed in the 4th quarter of 2021 moved into employment in the 1st quarter of 2022
Employment statistics
Labour Market Flow Statistics - 1st Quarter 2022
25,6% of those unemployed in the 4th quarter of 2021 moved into employment in the 1st quarter of 2022
18 May 2022

Summary

Out of all those persons who were unemployed in the 4th quarter of 2021, 54.0% (178.7 thousand) remained in that state in the 1st quarter of 2022, 25.6% (84.7 thousand) moved into employment and 20.4% (67.3 thousand) moved into inactivity.

Approximately one in three short-term unemployed (33.4%; 57.5 thousand) and one in nine persons belonging to the “potential workforce” (11.4%; 17.9 thousand) in the 4th quarter of 2021 moved into employment in the 1st quarter of 2022.

In the same period, 9.6% (69.8 thousand) of all those persons who were self-employed in the previous quarter became employee. On the other hand, the percentage of all employees moving to self-employment remained at 1.9% for the third consecutive quarter (76.1 thousand).

Out of all those employees who, in the 4th quarter of 2021, had a temporary work contract or other contractual arrangement, 22.0% (146.3 thousand) moved into a permanent work contract in the 1st quarter of 2022.

Around one in five part-time workers (19.0%; 75.8 thousand) in the 4th quarter of 2021 changed to a full-time work in the 1st quarter of 2022, proportion identical to the previous quarter.

Also, the percentage of persons who remained employed between the 4th quarter of 2021 and the 1st quarter of 2022, but changed job remained unchanged from the previous period (3.6%; 170.4 thousand).


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