Malta was found to have one of the lowest employment rates for females in 2005, with only 33.7% of all Maltese women aged between 15 and 64 employed. Malta also recorded the greatest difference between male and female employment rates, with a 40 percentage point discrepancy.
On the other hand, Finland and Sweden both with four percentage points, and Estonia with 5 percentage points recorded the lowest differences.
In turn, 53.9% of Maltese citizens between the ages of 15 and 64 were found to be workers in 2005. Hungary at 56.9%, Italy at 57.6% and Slovakia at 57.7%, Denmark at 75.9%, the Netherlands at 73.2%, Sweden at 72.5%, the United Kingdom at 71.7% all fared better employment rates. Poland registered a lower rate than that Maltese at 52.8%.
In the survey Malta was registered a percentage of 4.5% of employees with temporary jobs. The percentage of employees with temporary jobs varied widely across Member States, from 2.7% in Estonia, 3.7% in Ireland and to 33.3% in Spain, 25.7% in Poland and 19.5% in Portugal.
Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, published these results based on the 2005 Labour Force Survey. Through the report it was also discovered that in 2005, 197.5 million people aged 15 years or more had a job or a business activity in the 25 member states of the EU. The total employment rate for people aged between 15 and 64 was 63.8%, compared to 62.4% in 2000, and 63.3% in 2004. The employment rate for women in 2005 was 56.3%, compared to 53.6% in 2000, while the rate for people aged between 55 and 64, reached 42.5%, up from the 36.6% registered in 2000.
The report also found that close to one in every five unemployed persons has never had a job before. Among the unemployed in the 25 EU states, in 2005, 18.3% had never had a job, ranging from 8.9% in Finland and 9.2% in Germany to 37.3% in Greece and 33.6% in Italy.
As far as long-term unemployment is concerned, 4.1% of the active population in the 25 EU states had been without work for at least a year. This percentage varied from 1.0% in the United Kingdom and 1.1% in Denmark to 11.7% in Slovakia and 10.2% in Poland.
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By MaltaMedia News
Sep 7, 2006, 15:50 CET
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