Data show emerging generation of young people who have never worked

Long-term statistical data on unemployment published by the Czech Statistical Office indicate a disturbing trend – the emergence of a generation of young people who have never worked. Out of 30,000 people who have not worked in the last eight years, almost 16 thousand are people under 29 years. In the second quarter of 2010, the number of people who were jobless for more than a year grew to 155,000. Of those more than 81,000 are women, 72,000 are people with apprenticeship certificates, and the rest are people with only primary school education.