First Entrance In The Labour Market At 22
Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Monday that the first entrance in the labour market takes place relatively late and most of young people found a first job as employees.
Moreover, till the age of 22, the percentage of persons who had a work experience does not exceed 50%. Even at the age of 25, 20% of the respondents had no work experience, according to the statistics agency.
According to the survey on the entrance of young people into the labour market, most of young people found a first job as employees. For the majority, the first job was a temporary, full time job (40.5%), while a considerable percentage of them (11.4%) found a part time job – either permanent or temporary.
27.9% of the respondents found a job one year after the completion of their studies. A significant part of the respondents (30.7%) reported that they found a job four or more years after they had stopped formal education.
27.4% of persons reported that they had been working during their studies (either interrupting them or working and studying at the same time)
The mean duration of the first job is 46.5 months. It is longer for males (49.35 months) and for persons having completed secondary education (47.71 months).
The comparison of respondent’s educational level with parental educational level shows that when both parents are born in Greece, almost half of the respondents have higher educational level than their parents (49.9%). In the contrary, when one or both parents are born abroad, the percentage of persons with higher educational level than their parents is considerably lower (29.4% and 20.8%, respectively).
Note that the percentage of persons with lower educational level than their parents is rather significant for persons with one or both parents born abroad (20.4% and 12.4% respectively), while this percentage is only 6.4% for persons with both parents born in Greece.
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