Registered unemployment in Poland 2008-2016, by age

Name: Registered unemployment in Poland 2008-2016, by age
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Number of unemployed persons in Poland from 2008 to 2016, by age (in 1,000s)

This statistic shows the number of unemployed persons in Poland from 2008 to 2016, broken down by age. In 2016 the highest number of unemployed persons in Poland were between 25-34 years old (over 370 thousand).

Number of unemployed persons in Poland from 2008 to 2016, by age (in 1,000s)

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This statistic shows the number of unemployed persons in Poland from 2008 to 2016, broken down by age. In 2016 the highest number of unemployed persons in Poland were between 25-34 years old (over 370 thousand).

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Region: Poland
Survey time period: 2008 to 2016
Supplementary notes: The source adds the following information: "Data regarding registered unemployed persons include persons who, in accordance with the Law dated 20 IV 2004 on Promoting Employment and Labor Market Institutions, in force since 1 VI 2004 (uniform text Journal of Laws 2016 item 645, with later amendments), are classified as unemployed."

As an unemployed person is understood as a person (a foreigner — a family member of a Polish citizen) who is not employed and not performing any other kind of paid work, capable of work and ready to take full-time employment (or in case he/she is a disabled person — capable and ready to take work comprising no less than a half of working time), not attending school (with the exception of schools for adults, or taking the extra-curriculum exam covering this school curriculum in such schools or tertiary schools in the evening and weekend education system) looking for employment or other kind of paid work and registered in a local labor office, appropriate for his/her (permanent or temporary) stay, if he/she fulfilled among others the following conditions:
a) is aged 18 or more and has not reached the retirement age;
b) has not obtained the right to retirement pay or pension resulting from an inability to work (granted by respective foreign retirement or disability pension institution), pension due to training, social welfare pension or dependant’s pension exceeding half of the minimum wage, or after termination of employment or other paid work or a person, who after completing employment, other gainful work, or after ceasing to carry out non-agricultural economic activity does not collect teachers compensation benefit, does not receive a pre-retirement benefit or allowance, rehabilitation allowance, sick benefit, maternity benefit or benefit equal to maternity benefit,
c) is not the owner or holder (sole or dependent) of agricultural real estate with an area of agricultural land exceeding 2 convertible ha; is not subject to retirement and pension insurance from full-time work due to being a spouse or a member of an agricultural household with an area of agricultural land exceeding 2 convertible ha;
d) did not undertake non-agricultural activity or is not subject, on the basis of separate regulations, to compulsory social security or retirement provision, excluding social insurance of farmers;
e) is not temporarily under arrest or not serving a prison sentence of imprisonment served outside a penitentiary establishment under a system of electronic monitoring;
f) does not receive monthly income of the amount exceeding half of minimal remuneration for work; excluding income generated from money gathered on bank accounts;
g) does not receive, on the basis of the regulation concerning social welfare, a permanent social benefit;
h) does not receive, on the basis of regulations concerning family allowances, nursing allowance, special care benefit or allowance supplementary to family benefit due to single parenthood and losing rights to unemployment benefit due to the expiry of the legal duration of benefit receiving;
i) does not receive training allowance after termination of employment."