{"id":2834,"date":"2018-10-17T16:41:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.refernet.lv\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2018-11-06T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T14:19:26","slug":"a-large-number-of-unemployed-are-looking-for-a-job-for-over-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/?p=2834&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A large number of unemployed are looking for a job for over a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Number of long-term unemployed<\/strong> (persons who are unemployed for at least 12 months) <strong>in 2017 was 32,1 thousand<\/strong>. Of the total number of long-term unemployed, 97,5% are aged 20 to 64, of whom 59,1% are men. In this age group 14,6% of all unemployed were looking for a job more than four years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The highest unemployment rate in the last ten years was in 2011, when 55,9% of all unemployed were looking for a job for more than a year. Since then the unemployment rate has significantly reduced, in 2017 it consisted of 38% (aged 20 to 64).<\/p>\n<p>The most common reason for job termination was the decrease of number of employees or liquidation of the company (43,8%), followed by personal or family matters, illness or incapacity (41,1%).<\/p>\n<p>The highest number of unemployed (34,7%) and long-term unemployed (37,3%) in 2017 had general secondary education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/uploads\/Capture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2835\" src=\"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/uploads\/Capture.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/uploads\/Capture.png 574w, https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/uploads\/Capture-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about this topic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csb.gov.lv\/lv\/statistika\/statistikas-temas\/socialie-procesi\/nodarbinatiba\/meklet-tema\/2480-32-tukstosi-bezdarbnieku-darbu-mekle-ilgak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> in Latvian.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>Source: Central Statistics Bureau<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; color: #808080;\"><em>04.10.2018.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of long-term unemployed (persons who are unemployed for at least 12 months) in 2017 was 32,1 thousand. Of the total number of long-term unemployed, 97,5% are aged 20 to 64, of whom 59,1% are men. In this age group 14,6% of all unemployed were looking for a job more than four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refernet.aic.lv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}