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2013 September 11 - 17 [LABOR]

More young people reluctantly choose non-regular employment

More and more young people are working in non-regular employment because they have fewer options, according to the 2013 white paper the Labor Ministry issued on September 10.

The ministry found this fact by making a comparison between the survey results on non-regular workers in 2007 and in 2010.

The percentage of “no choice non-regular workers”, or those who choose a non-regular job because they could not find a job as a regular worker, increased from 18.9% in 2007 to 22.5% in 2010.

By gender and age groups, the percentages of “no choice non-regular workers” aged 30-34 rose from 32.2% in 2007 to 38.8% in 2010, and the percentage aged 35-39 more than doubled from 19.9% to 43% during the same period of time.

Among female workers, the ratio increased from 19.1% (2007) to 20.2% (2010) in the 25-29 age bracket, and from 19% to 28.6% in the 30-34 age bracket.

The percentage of non-regular workers who wanted to became full-time employees in 2010 was over 50% in male workers aged 20-24, nearly 70% in male workers aged 25-29, and around 30% in female workers in their 20s and 30s.