{"id":281297,"date":"2026-02-13T00:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/281297\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:13:06","slug":"half-of-the-unemployed-have-already-found-work-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/281297\/","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":281298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-281297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}