{"id":295064,"date":"2026-02-12T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295064\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:48:09","slug":"half-of-the-unemployed-have-already-found-work-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295064\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of the unemployed have already found work in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 351,100 unemployed people in 2024, 19.4% (68,000) became inactive, the statistics office also indicates.<\/p>\n<p>In one year, 56.4% (124,900) of the short-term unemployed and 30.8% (38,800) of inactive individuals belonging to the &#8220;potential workforce&#8221; moved into employment.<\/p>\n<p>Among employees who, in 2024, had a fixed-term employment contract or another type of contract, &#8220;40.8% (282,800) switched to an open-ended contract in 2025,&#8221; reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ine.pt\/xportal\/xmain?xpid=INE&amp;xpgid=ine_destaques&amp;DESTAQUESdest_boui=757872850&amp;DESTAQUESmodo=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">INE<\/a> (National Institute of Statistics), adding that 32.3% of people who had part-time jobs switched to full-time work in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 464,900 people changed jobs and remained employed in both years.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, of the total number of people who were employed in 2024, 2.2% (111,200) became unemployed, and 2.3% (118,700) became inactive.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, &#8220;the net flow of employment (total entries minus total exits) was positive and estimated at 163,000 people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This highlight also includes quarterly data, which shows that &#8220;of the total number of people who were unemployed in the 3rd quarter of 2025, 52.2% (170,400) remained in that state in the 4th quarter of 2025, 30.6% (99,800) moved into employment, and 17.3% (56,400) became inactive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of the 351,100 unemployed people in 2024, 19.4% (68,000) became inactive, the statistics office also indicates. In one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-295064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}