UNEMPLOYMENT IN MADEIRA WITH LESS THAN TEN THOUSAND REGISTERED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 14 YEARS

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The number of unemployed people registered with the Madeira Employment Institute has continuously declined since March 2021, having reached a value of less than 10,000 in December, a number that is only paralleled by retreating until January 2009.

In a press release, the Regional Secretariat for Social Inclusion and Citizenship reports that “at the end of December 2022, 9,995 unemployed people were enrolled in the IEM, which corresponds to a variation of -0.3% compared to the previous month.

RAM is the only region that shows a decrease compared to the previous month (-0.3%). The Algarve stands out as the region with the sharpest increase (22.0%), with the national average increasing by 3.5%.

Compared to December 2021, there are 4,487 fewer unemployed in RAM.

In year-on-year terms, all regions recorded declines. RAM stands out, once again, as having the steepest decline (-31.0%) among all regions, followed by the regions of Lisbon and V. Tejo (-14.8%) and the North (- 11.0%), with the national average falling by 11.8%.

From Jornal Madeira

 

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20 Responses

  1. Great news, provided of course that these new jobs are not part time, temporary, antisocial hours low paid positions which can be ended at a moments notice with zero compensation.

    1. I’m sure a lot are, that’s what happens when you have only one thing to sell, Tourism. But don’t knock it. Yesterday we were told that jobs were available but no one was applying.

  2. That is very good news, but I wonder if maybe people have left Madeira in search of work, which may have skewed the unemployment figure unfavourably.

    1. Also the rate figures are computed based on the active population, so it also varies with the number of people who retired from work. But this is how unemployment rate is calculated in Portugal in at least the past 40 years so there is traceability of the changes.

  3. Pretty sure this is because people are leaving Madeira and not some new or better jobs have been created.

    1. Why are you pretty sure? The Madeira economy has been growing for the past 18 months and when there is economy growth there is job creation.

      1. Madeira’s economy is mainly retail and hospitality/tourism these days which is mainly for low skilled people with low wages. Maybe people that have a business in those sectors are profiting more but not your average local that have job.
        Considering that businesses in hospitality are having a hard time hiring there is not enough people that want to stay long in these low skilled low wage jobs.
        Also the last census, done not long ago, show that Madeira is one of the main regions in Portugal that lost more population.

        1. What a mix bag of topics…
          Nothing in the stats talks about wages or emmigration. These are employment rate stats, it tells you of the active population how many don’t have a job. And that number has been decreasing. That is what you take from this stats and this is how you can compare to other regions.

  4. Yes, like it was suggested, these numbers are skewed, yes i have proof of it and yes accounting the number of immigrations.

        1. Not really a trust me dude ?, since I’ve arrived I’ve been recording our “exemplary” public service, sour people. One of them even had the audacity, to delete on a complain soon after i let them know i was recording for my own personal quality control ? thank goodness for the changes historic on Google drive and outlook.

          Their organisation its made in a way that its almost as if makes no difference if it exists. So much that i was even told i should go outside and not for a professional way, again “sour people”.

          I mean, let’s give an example, you have to register for the search, because they are useless on common sense, i ask for a desired location, they do the search on your living area, however i also have the convenience of having regular transportation if needed thru a route, so i ask for any availability thru out, that seams logical anyway i put it.

          Either they don’t organize as they should or they’re just having the piss and decline, fair game.

          Finally a suggestion appears and they book an interview, the problem is that at the time of the arrangement, for all them unfortunately they already had cancelled it or was covered and they don’t even let you know despite having your home address, phone number and email.

          Even worst is that they only inform you thru postal service and like it happened a few times it got delayed. On top of that if you miss it and don’t inform them, as if you knew what was coming due their method of interaction, they remove you from their system, banned for 6 or 9 months and that is the end of it.

          Over here i battle every day, on subjecs like this one, im sorry for the locals, to a point, not sorry for these so called public workers, you guys are old, tired and sour and if you’re not old, yall just tainted from their lack of knowledge and commitment, so does the circus continue.

          Even putting my tool set and experience on the table, “for free”, they don’t give a damn apart from their selfish self’s.

  5. These statistics are not newsworthy unless paired with statistics showing how many people have left the region because of a lack of job opportunities. Although I don’t know that many people here, I do know several who have left for the mainland because of a lack of job opportunities here. So this “good news” is potentially bad news. We would need to see the other side of the story, statistics wise.

    1. Please explain how you are going to pair up statistics. This is about bare numbers leaving, not what any of us, not knowing reasons, believe. You could look on the bright side and believe that those leaving are educated to a standard above that needed for the hospitality industry and I’m not knocking the hospitality industry.

  6. I don’t know why foreigners are so apparently concerned about Madeiran jobs. Small touristy islands have always had to contend with people leaving in search of better opportunities in richer countries with a diversified economy. These Madeirans are the ones who can change the situation, by coming back with skills and expertise and starting businesses in areas other than tourism here. The way a lot of commenters write, they seem to think everything is the government’s fault and that people should just sit back and wait for opportunities to magically be created. That’s not how it works.

    1. Excuse me for asking but we seem to have two Lavinias, Lavinia and yourself, Lavinia Freitas. Is it two or are you one and the same ?

  7. For those with a bit of time free on these cold winters nights try reading info from ine.pt if you like statistics lol

    1. Well I have to agree with Luis Alegria, I left the Island 7 years ago because I needed a job to pay my bills and after being registered in the so called “Employment centre” for too long and they could only called me, after 4 years, for one job in which 6 months later that same company filled out bankruptcy and I went back to the system. But let me say that all the years I was registered, I would go there and beg for a job, any job, but because I have a university degree, they would say I was “too much qualified” for that job and so they couldn’t give it to me.. TOO MUCH QUALIFIED?!?! I was willing to accept any job cause I had bills to pay, and they would prefer to leave it empty than giving it to me, or, as it also happened: “you don’t have experience” well how could I have experience in something if nobody was willing to give an opportunity?!? And this was ongoing for years, I would do some freelance jobs so I could manage my expenses but was drowning in bills and no one cared. So for my experience and knowledge I can say that what Madeira has is not a lower unemployment rate, but definitely A LOT OF SKILLED and GRADUATED people that rather not be registered in the system and try to find jobs on their own, and also a lot of them leaving the Island or even the country for a job opportunity, even if they are “too much qualified” they don’t mind, like I didn’t because what I needed was to pay my bills and feed my family. But these things don’t go to statistics cause it doesn’t matter to them. They don’t care.

  8. Unemployment in madeira ow dear only a few manage to find a job and that’s the ones that have um padrinho or uma cunha the rest emigrate, madeira parliament = the government a bunch

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