Unemployment

INE statistics institute’s flash estimate for November 2023 shows that unemployment for the month remained ‘stable’ at 6.6%, albeit up on levels in the same month the year previously. All

The number of people listed as unemployed in Portugal is growing. For purposes of statistics, the situation is taken from the number of people receiving unemployment benefit (which is not

But numbers employed ‘highest since records began’ The unemployment rate in Portugal rose to 6.5 % in September, 0.4 percentage points higher than in the same month of 2022 and

Delays in processing pensions leave 5,000 without benefit of last year’s bonus The plain sight drama within Portugal’s Social Security system sees more than 138,000 people without jobs or any

2022 ended with 307,005 unemployed people registered at job centres throughout country, which represents an increase (this time of 10,282) for the 5th consecutive month. In this ‘universe’ of unemployed

Portugal’s unemployment rate rose to 6.4% in November, its highest level since July 2021 and up from 6.0% in October and 6.2% in November of 2021, according to provisional data

The number of unemployed registered at job centres fell 14.2% year-on-year in November to 296,723, which represents “the best figure in this month since records began”, IEFP ( the Institute

… and 30% of those in work are overqualified for what they are doing It’s another of those ‘not often admitted details’ that has haunted this and previous governments. Youth

More than 120,000 of Portugal’s unemployed do not qualify for benefit Unemployment in Portugal registered its highest monthly increase this year (+57,668 people) in September as the reality is that