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Many people in their fifties or sixties feel as if they are suspended between heaven and earth. There is no longer a place for them in the labor market just due to lack of skills or lack of knowledge of technology. According to the Employment Service, they are simply unattractive in our society and job market.
Perhaps more fortunate are artists and creative professions, whose self-realization depends more on personality abilities, but some who have acquired earthly professions have found themselves at a crossroads.
Bad habits interfere too
“Older people are slower and more difficult to integrate into the labor market. It is more difficult for them to compete with the latest technologies, their skills and competencies do not correspond to the needs of the labor market, their ability to adapt or change, their ability to invest and recycle. habits “, says Inga Balnanosienė, director of the Employment Service.
Often these listed issues outweigh your work and life experience and often lead to higher recorded unemployment rates for older people than for other age groups. During the year, their number increased by 65.7 percent.
“In western countries, we admire the sixties and seventies, alternating tables in cafes, working in hotels and shops. Why do we often dismiss people of this age as unable to work in Lithuania?” – considers I. Balnanosienė.
According to data from the Department of Statistics, Lithuania has a population of 196,708, aged between 60 and 64 years. Another 32,774 are over 65 years old. According to Sodra, there were 96,725 policyholders in the 61-65 age group in August. Since February, the number of such insured has decreased by 6.4 percent.
Photo by V. Skaritis / Fotobank
Lack of motivation
According to sociologists, with the rapid aging of the population (the population aged 60-64 years increased by almost 37,000 between 2010 and 2020), the number of people employed may increase not only due to the growth of employment, but also due to the increase in working age and older people. In the labor market.
The Employment Service predicts that the total number of employees in Lithuania by 2025 Therefore, to stabilize the labor market, measures are needed to ensure its complementation with workers: not only immigration (immigrants from third countries and re-emigrant Lithuanian citizens) but also the active employment of the retired and disabled, the state of demographic resources and the trends study assessment in 2019.
People over the age of 55 return to the job market much less often than people in other age groups.
Currently, 29.8 thousand people are looking for work in the country. people under five years of retirement age. This is 60 percent. (11.2 thousand) more than in 2019. At the beginning of October, there were 60.5 thousand unemployed. people over 54 years old. During the year, this age group increased by 24 thousand.
Jobseekers of this age registered with the Employment Service have lost the motivation to find a job according to their professional qualifications. More than half of the people with less than five years left to retirement age would like unskilled work. Both men and women prefer the job of an auxiliary worker and cleaner.
People over the age of 55 return to the job market much less frequently than people in other age groups. During the nine months of this year, 6.1 thousand were helped to find employment. people over 60 years, it is 23.5 percent. less than at the same time last year. 1.6 thousand people were employed for fixed-term jobs. sixty (15.5%) less than in the same period last year.
This year, most people of this age were employed as helpers, cleaners, vendors, chefs, and environmentalists. Most of the men worked in construction companies and the women in commercial, administrative and service companies. Older people claim to be hostile at all stages of the employment relationship, from the hiring process, when they have to interact with professionals much younger than themselves during the first interviews, to the moment when older people are pressured to retire, although most still feel capable of working. .
Neither seniority nor qualifications
Five years before retirement, almost half: 45.9 percent. The length of service of job applicants is only up to 10 years, 27.9%. – 10 to 20 years. 1.6 thousand people without work experience and with up to one year of service were registered with the Employment Service. (10.2%) of the unemployed of early retirement age.
The number of jobseekers of early retirement age with more than 25 years of service increased the most during the year. October 1 this year. 2.2 times more of them were registered with the Employment Service than at the same time last year.
One third – 30.8 percent. older people do not have a formal professional qualification, only secondary or basic, 35.9%. – vocational education, 13 percent. – higher education, 20.2 percent. – higher. There are more women than men among those with tertiary and tertiary education.
This year, 1,003 unemployed people aged 60 and over, mostly from the Kaunas region, participated in active labor market policy measures. 209 people in this age group chose the Employment Service’s learning support measures. – 815. 172 unemployed older people wanted to retrain (last year – 746). Mainly in the territory served by the clients of Kaunas – 54 and in Klaipėda – 39.
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