Over 14% of young out of work

PALMA
THE number of young people out of work rose by four percentage points last year.
In 2006, 10.3 percent of the Balearic population under the age of 30 were unemployed.
Last year, this figure rose to 14.4 percent.
The Balearics has the sixth highest level of unemployment among young people in Spain behind, Ceuta, Melilla, Extremadura, Andalucía and the Canaries.
In 2007, 206'609 young people were contracted in the Balearic Islands, representing 2.69 percent of the Spanish workforce.
But as a percentage of the whole workforce in the Balearics (46.94 percent), the number of young people employed is lower than the national average (47.13 percent).

The number of people registered as working has also decreased, from 69.9 percent in 2006 to 68.5 percent last year.
Meanwhile, the number of people in the Balearics looking for work has increased, along with the communities of Aragon, the Canaries, Castile-La Mancha, Murcia and Valencia.

The number of young people in seasonal employment has also fallen from 47 percent in 2006 to 44.6 percent in 2007, making the Balearics the autonomous community with the third lowest amount of young people with seasonal contracts, behind Madrid and Catalonia.

The number of jobseekers in the Balearics currently stands at 22.010 or 3.07 percent of the total Spanish population. This is 24.7 percent of the Balearic population compared with a national rate of 23.24 percent.