Unemployment

Unemployment

For years, a problem in the Lubelskie Voivodeship has been the large number of long-term unemployed people. At the end of December 2021, 40,887 long-term unemployed people were registered in the Lubelskie Voivodeship, i.e. 61.7% of the total number of registered unemployed (57% in the previous year). Among the long-term unemployed: 27.4% are people with a short (up to 1 year) work experience; 26.9% are people aged 25 to 34, 26.4% have lower secondary / primary and lower education.

At this point, it should be added that in 2021, the Lubelskie Voivodeship was the second voivodeship in the country (after the Kujawskopomorskie Voivodeship) in terms of the highest share of long-term unemployed people in the total number of unemployed, among all voivodeships in the country.

The provincial labor market in 2021 was struggling not only with the problem of long-term unemployment, but also with a significant share of young unemployed people (up to 30 years of age) in the total number of unemployed.

For several years, the Lubelskie Voivodeship has been the highest among all voivodships in the country in terms of the share of people under 30 in the total number of unemployed. At the same time, in the Lubelskie Voivodeship there is a large spatial differentiation of youth unemployment (up to 30 years of age) in the total number of the unemployed.

At the end of December 2021, 18,603 unemployed persons up to 30 years of age were registered in the poviat labor offices of the Lubelskie Voivodeship, i.e. 28.1% of the total number of registered unemployed (a year earlier, in December 2020, they accounted for 30.3% - 23,156 people).