ZAGREB, Dec 10 (Hina) - Of the total 285,254 registered unemployed persons, only 70 percent can be considered truly unemployed according to international standards, director of the Croatian Employment Bureau, Sanja Crnkovic Pozaic,
said on Monday. International criteria state that an unemployed person is a person who is eligible for work and is actively looking for a job. The results of a recent labour force survey indicate that of the 30 remaining percent, 12.7% are not prepared to accept an offered job, while 13.2% want to work, but are not active in looking, Pozaic told a news conference. She added that 7.9% of registered unemployed are moonlighting, and 5.4% said they do not want to work since they are receiving permanent social welfare. "The goal of amendments to the Employment Law and the new rule book on active job searching is for only truly unemployed people to be registered, so that the measures of acti
ZAGREB, Dec 10 (Hina) - Of the total 285,254 registered unemployed
persons, only 70 percent can be considered truly unemployed
according to international standards, director of the Croatian
Employment Bureau, Sanja Crnkovic Pozaic, said on Monday.
International criteria state that an unemployed person is a person
who is eligible for work and is actively looking for a job.
The results of a recent labour force survey indicate that of the 30
remaining percent, 12.7% are not prepared to accept an offered job,
while 13.2% want to work, but are not active in looking, Pozaic told
a news conference.
She added that 7.9% of registered unemployed are moonlighting, and
5.4% said they do not want to work since they are receiving
permanent social welfare.
"The goal of amendments to the Employment Law and the new rule book
on active job searching is for only truly unemployed people to be
registered, so that the measures of active employment policy could
be limited only to those who are unemployed and wish to work,"
Pozaic stressed.
She explained that with such a "tidying up" of the registry of
unemployed, unemployment could in the next two years drop by 30
percent.
The trend of slowing down of the registered unemployment rate
continues, so the annual growth rate in November was 2.3%, while
last year it was 12.9 percent.
A total of 25,554 new people registered with the Employment Bureau,
while 12,547 found jobs in November, mostly in state administration
and public companies. "This means that the state is still the chief
generator of jobs in Croatia," Pozaic said.
Last month employers registered 15,429 new jobs, 4,000 more than
last year, but 5,000 less than in October.
By qualifications, most unemployed under 45 years of age are among
those qualified and highly qualified. Concerning is the number of
4.1% young unemployed people with university degrees, which is
higher than the international average of three percent, she said.
Pozaic stressed that it was encouraging that unemployment was
decreasing among the youngest categories of the population from 15
to 34 years of age.
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