Portugal among Euro Area countries with less job vacancies

  • ECO News
  • 16 March 2018

Eurostat discloses, this Friday, that the job vacancy rate increased, in the fourth quarter of 2017, in the Euro Area. Portugal registered the third smallest rate among European members.

The job vacancy rate in the Euro Area increased to 2% in the fourth quarter of 2017, stabilizing at 2% in the European Union and Portugal registered the third smallest rate among member States, according to Eurostat.

In the Euro Area, the job vacancy rate increased, last October and December, to 2%, in comparison to an homologous 1.7% and 1.9% in the third quarter of 2017. In the European Union (EU), the indicator remained stable at 2% in comparison to the previous quarter, in which the rate represents a 1.8% increase in comparison to homologous period of 2016.

According to the EU statistical office, Portugal and Bulgaria registered the third smallest job vacancy rate, in the last quarter of 2017 (0.8% each), after Greece (0.1%) and Spain (0.7%).

In the fourth quarter of 2017 and in the homologous comparison, the indicator increased in 23 member States: in Portugal, those 0.8% represent an homologous increase (0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2016) and a decrease in a quarter-on-quarter comparison (0.8% between last July and September).