HELSINKI: Employment rates by sex in 1990-2014, persons aged 15 to 64, %. Source: Labour Force Survey 2014. Statistics Finland. The employment rate decreased a little in 2014 and unemployment increased, according to Statistics Finland.
The weakening in employment affected in particular men so that there was no longer much difference between the employment rate of men and women. The number of employees decreased but the number of self-employed persons increased. The number of new employment contracts of under one year’s duration went down and part-time work became more common, as per the data derived from the annual review “Employment and Unemployment in 2014” of Statistics Finland’s Labour Force Survey.
The number of employed persons aged 15 to 74 decreased to 2,447,000 persons, which was 9,000 fewer than in 2013. The weakening of employment particularly applied to men. The employment rate of the population aged 15 to 64 was 68.3 per cent, which was 0.2 percentage points lower than in 2013. The employment rate of men was 68.7 per cent and that of women 67.9 per cent in 2014.
