• Total job seekers: Currently, the number of job seekers claiming unemployment benefits stands at 570,958, with 56% of them being in the sick leave, ie they have an employer to return to and their chances of returning to work are higher than those who are not in the sick leave.
• More young people returning to work: 48.4% of those returning to work with young people under the age of 34, about 37% are aged 35-54, the main age group in the labor market.
• More women returning to work: 67.5% of all returnees since leaving the third quarantine are women, data that are in line with the findings of the gender analysis report for the corona year published this week by the Employment Service.
• Main industries: Those industries that were more affected during the third closure are the industries that recover faster when they leave it – the teaching, education and training industries along with the sales and services industries, which together account for 44.2% of all those returning to work.
• Rami Graur, CEO of the Employment Service: “The rate of return to work is very encouraging and we expect it to increase in the coming weeks. I call on all job seekers to make every effort to return to work before June, it is true for them and true for the Israeli economy. In addition, I call on employers who have difficulty recruiting Ours, whether through the 9678 * hotline or through the open employment bureaus ”
Following the optimistic forecasts published last night (Monday) by the Ministry of Finance regarding the rate of economic recovery and in light of the success of the vaccination campaign, the Employment Service announces today (Tuesday) that since leaving the third quarantine 185,418 job seekers, 83% It should be noted that according to data from the Employment Service, the number of jobseekers claiming unemployment benefits today stands at 570,958, with 56% of them (321,681 jobseekers) being in the IDF, ie they have an employer and in any case their chances of returning to work are higher. And have no employer to return to.
The age segmentation of those returning to work shows that 48.4% of those returning are young (under 34), compared with about 37% of those aged 35-54. An explanation for the data can be found in the opening of the sales and services industries, including the malls, street shops, bars, restaurants and hotels. It should be noted that 44.2% of those returning to work are employees in the teaching, education and training industries (27.1%) and sales and services (17.1%), higher than their rate among registrants during the third closure which stood at 40.3%.
Furthermore, when the rate is converted to numbers, it appears that during the third closure 44,622 teaching, education and training workers were enrolled while after that 50,248 returned to work. A similar gap was also seen in the sales and services industry, where while during the third closure 25,121 job seekers from this industry were registered, since the exit from the closure 31,706 sales and services workers have returned to work. This gap is explained in the employment service by the fact that since leaving the third quarantine, more and more areas have been opened that were closed on the eve of the quarantine, such as fifth-tenth grades, the opening of which now contributed to more teaching, education and training workers.
A gender segmentation of the data shows that 67.5% of all those returning to work are women, and a total of 125,194 women compared to 60,224 men. These data are consistent with the findings of the Employment Service’s report this week, which shows that women are more affected by entering closures and recovering quickly when they leave, given the proportion of women in employment that are more vulnerable to closures than men, such as teaching, education and training. Therefore, they register more than men at the entrance to the closure but also return more than men at the exit from it.
According to Dr. Gal Zohar, director of the research and policy department of the Employment ServiceData on return to work indicate the recovery of the economy and are directly related to the degree of opening of more and more industries. As morbidity rates continue to decline, we will see a higher return to work. However, Dr. Zohar clarifies that not all job seekers who are currently in Chalat will return to work, although naturally their chances of returning are higher than those who are not in Chalat.