For every hundred new unemployed registrations, the Centro de Emprego Sul Tejo, which serves four municipalities on the banks of the Tagus, between Barreiro and Montijo, only manages to reintegrate seven unemployed. In Lisbon the ratio is nine to a hundred, and in Amadora and Sintra it is ten for every hundred new records.
The data, released yesterday by the Instituto de Emprego e Formação Profissional (IEFP), refers to May and shows that job centers in these areas of Greater Lisbon have the worst placement rates in the country at a time when recorded unemployment is at its lowest. in nearly two decades, but the weight of long-term unemployment remains high.
According to the latest statistics, last month ended with a global number of 296,394 official unemployment records, which corresponds to a decrease of 5.7% compared to April and 26.3% compared to May 2021. It is the lowest number of the whole series. monthly information from the IEFP, which started in 2003 but is close to that in July 2019, the second month with the lowest unemployment rate in the history of the national employment offices (297,290).
However, the weight of long-term unemployment remains high: about half of those registered without work for a year or more. The long-term unemployment rate was 49.1% in May, accounting for 145,642 people, and has remained at that level since the end of 2021.
Registrations of new unemployed last month stood at 37,070, down 1.5% from April, but 8.8% above a year earlier.
The pace of placements also improved from the previous month, increasing by 2.7% to a total of 9,287 reintegration into the labor market, but was 8.3% lower than a year earlier.
The number represents a ratio of 25 placements for every 100 newly unemployed.
If it is in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley that a significant proportion of national placements take place, with 2615 reintegration or almost a third of the total, then some employment offices in the region are also those with the lowest reintegration levels relative to the registration flows of new unemployed.
In May, the Centro de Emprego Sul Tejo received in absolute numbers 934 unemployed people, representing 61 placements. The Lisbon centers received 2,213 new registrations, with only 189 placements. Amadora got 702 new unemployed, 73 places. And Sintra 1226, with 126 placements.
In addition to these four job centers, Viana do Castelo (13%), Matosinhos (14%), Cascais, Vila Nova de Gaia, Lamego, Bragança (all with 15 placements for every 100 new unemployed) come with the lowest placement rates. †
The best placement performance is achieved in the IEFP centers of Figueira da Foz (67%), Póvoa do Varzim (66%), Alentejo Litoral (60%), Covilhã (58%), Pinhal Interior Norte (55 %), Dão-Lafões (55%), Guarda (54%), Loulé (50%), Médio Tejo (48%) and Horta, in the Azores (43%).
Out of 57 national employment offices, only eight posted in May, representing at least half of new unemployment records.
On the other hand, the worst records of long-term unemployment are achieved in the employment offices of Vila Real (61% of registrations have been in existence for more than a year), Funchal (60%), Lamego (60%), Vila Nova de Gaia (59 %), Tâmega and Sousa (58%), Matosinhos and Penafiel (both with 57%), Valongo (55%), Porto (55%), and Alto Tâmega (54%). The North region dominates, where 53% of the unemployed are long-term unemployed.
Maria Caetano is a journalist for Dinheiro Vivo
Source: El heraldo
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