4 hours agoUnemployment at high levels, over 123 thousand people without jobs in Kosovo
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Kosovo Statistics Agency (ASK) has published the results of the Workers Power Survey for the third quarter of 2019. According to the Kosovo Statistics Agency, almost two-thirds of Kosovo's population is at work, including ages of 15 to 64. Two thirds of the total population [...]
The two-thirds of Kosovo's total population make up 1 million and 207 thousand and 617 persons from the number of Kosovo's working-age population.
Of them, about 505 thousand and 936 are workers, while 701 thousand, 681 or 58.1 percent are not economically active persons, which means they are not employed and have not been active in search of employment over the past four weeks or are unwilling to start work within two weeks.
Of the approximately 505 thousand people who were active in working age, only 382 thousand are employed, while the unemployed still remain around 123 thousand and 902 persons, the Economic Bulletin notes.
Meanwhile, only young people between the ages of 15 and 24 account for 99,000 and 111, out of whom over 50,000 are employed, while even 48 thousand and 461 are still looking for a job.
Although Kosovo's working age population is expected to grow rapidly over the next decade as Kosovo is among the countries with the youngest population in Europe, unemployment is constantly high.
As for the employment report to the population, the rate of the inactive population for work is emerging to be higher than the percentage of employees in Kosovo, since as mentioned above only 31.6 percent or 382,035 people are employed.
Besides unemployment, major gender differences exist on the Kosovo labour market.
One in five (22.2%) working - age women are active in the job market, compared to about three fifths (61.4%) of men working age.
Among people in the labor force, unemployment is higher for females than for men - 36.4 percent for female unemployment compared with 20.2 percent for men.
The employment rate among female working age is only 14.1 percent, or 13 thousand and 175 female employed compared to 49.0 percent for men or number 37 thousand and 476 employed.
While unemployed, over 20,000 females are still numbered, and males over 28,000.
And this lower unemployment rate in women, according to the AK, stems from combining very low turnout in the workforce and high unemployment.
Women were employed mainly in the education, trade and health sectors (52.3 of employed women).
Men, on the other hand, were mainly employed in the trade, construction, and production sectors, employing 48.4 percent of men employed.
