ZAGREB, Dec 29 (Hina) - Over 20 percent of Croatia's working-age population is jobless. According to the latest figures, 336,000 people have been registered as unemployed and the rate of the unemployment reached the record 20.2
percent.
ZAGREB, Dec 29 (Hina) - Over 20 percent of Croatia's working-age
population is jobless. According to the latest figures, 336,000
people have been registered as unemployed and the rate of the
unemployment reached the record 20.2 percent.#L#
According to data of the Labour Office, there are, for instance,
13,590 jobless persons who graduated from economic secondary
schools, almost 10,000 persons who graduated from high schools,
2,700 unemployed nurses, 6,000 of each unemployed truck drivers,
chefs and waiter and waitresses, 1,250 economists with a faculty
degree, 1,086 persons who graduated from law schools, 891 doctors,
and 345 mechanical engineers.
The unemployment rate has been rising in recent years, and
therefore all agree that the creation of more new jobs will be of the
top priority in the future.
The Croatian Labour Office has made an analysis of the unemployment
from 1982 to 1998. In 1982 there were 107,326 people on the dole,
whereas in the end of last year there were 302,731 jobless persons.
It was an increase by 182 percent or for 195,000 persons.
There were also changes in the structure of unemployed people in
that period. For example, a portion of jobless men rose from 38
percent in 1982 to 50.5 percent in 1997. Last year, however it fell
to 48 percent. Recently a portion of jobless women has been on the
increase, and in the end of November this year, 53.4 percent of
those on the dole were women.
There were also changes according to the prior employment. A
portion of persons registered as jobless after they were employed
for some time climbed from 51 percent in 1982 to 69 percent in 1998.
There were substantial changes in professional and occupational
structure of the jobless: a portion of skilled and highly skilled
workers climbed from 24 percent to 34 percent, while the percent of
jobless persons who graduated from secondary schools increased
from 21 to 23 percent.
Out of 335,881 jobless persons last month, over 99,000 persons have
never had a job prior to their registration to the Labour Office.
The youth aged below 24 year make up about 30 percent of the jobless,
another 15 percent are persons aged up to 29 year.
About 25 percent of the jobless are between 30 and 39 year old.
Almost 30 percent of the jobless are older than 40 year.
People with degrees from faculties and colleges make up 6.9 percent
of those on the dole.
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