The number of sisis, young people who study and work, has doubled in the last decade to exceed one million people and almost equal that of ninis, those who do not have a job or are training.
The last ones data from the Active Population Survey (EPA)relating to the third quarter of the year, provide a photograph that shows a change in the youngest age segment, but also improved labor market opportunities.
Currently, one in three young people employed between 16 and 29 yearsjust over a million people, combine a job with their studies, a figure that has doubled compared to the 476,000 in the third quarter of 2014, when they represented the 20% of youth employed.
For its part, the number of ninis quadrupled that of sisis a decade ago, with 1.7 million young people who did not have a job or were in any studya figure that has been reduced by 35%, to 1.1 million today.
In this way, the NEET rate with respect to the total number of unemployed or inactive young people has been reduced by almost eleven points, going from 24.9% to 14%.
In total, in Spain there are 3.3 million young people between 16 and 29 years old employed, a figure that has increased by 37.5% in the last decade, while there are 870,000 unemployed, 43.2% less, and 3.2 million inactive people, 19% more.
By gender, of the million sisis that exist today, just over half, some 509,000 are men and 498,000 are women; while with NEETs the opposite happens, since women, with 570,000, are somewhat more numerous than men, with 544,000.
Early school leaving
A study prepared by the BBVA Foundation indicates that a portion of these young people are NEETs because They do not have the appropriate level of training to remain busy or even active due to early school leaving.
The number of NEETs usually grows during economic crises due to the increase in unemployment, but in Spain the impact is greater because the unemployed represent 50% of this group (the other half are inactive), while in other countries, such as Germany, they are 30%.
Among the half a million inactive NEETs in Spain, the majority are dedicated to household chores, have some disability, receive a pension or do volunteer work, while nearly 100,000 are NEETs voluntarilyperhaps because they lack motivation both to train and to look for a job, says the BBVA Foundation.
The study explains that access to post-compulsory, secondary or higher education “has not been and is not equal for all young people” and points to socioeconomic factors and family history as determinants for people’s educational success.
One in five young people is NEET
According to the report on the global youth employment trendsprepared by the International Labor Organization (ILO), one in every five young people in the world, that is, 20.4% were NEET and, of them, two out of three were women.
More than half of young workers have informal employment, says the ILO, while pointing out that only in high- and upper-middle-income economies are the majority of young workers who have a permanent and secure employment.
This proportion is reduced in low-income countrieswhere three out of four young workers will only find self-employment or temporary paid work, says the ILO.
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