S. Korea beats employment target with 7-year best gains in 2021 payroll
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The annual count in the employed added 369,000 on year – above government target of 350,000 -to 27.27 million for 2021, according to data released by Statistics Korea on Wednesday.
¡°Employment recovered in 2021 thanks to the base effect, remote working and learning, digitalization, industrial restructuring, and strong exports of 2020,¡± said Kong Mi-sook, a senior Statistics Korea official.
The annual addition was largest since 2014 when the country added 598,000 jobs. But the rise also goes against low base effect as payroll fell by the largest of 218,000 in 2000 since the financial crisis in 1998 due to pandemic outbreak.
For December, the employed increased by 773,000, the largest monthly addition since February 2014.
The number of people that were employed at the accommodation sector increased by 66,000 in December. The number of self-employed workers with paid hires rose by 53,000, making the first gain in more than three years.
Still, for the full year, the accommodation and restaurant sectors areas stayed hammered by Covid-19, losing 47,000.
The number of wholesale and retail workers fell by 150,000 for full year. The arts and sports and other leisure-related service sectors and the association, group-led business, repair, and other personal service sector also fell by 29,000 and 55,000, respectively.
The manufacturing sector lost 8,000 workers last year.
The number of self-employed people with hires decreased by 65,000, which was a decline for the third consecutive year since 2019. The number of self-employed people without employees, however, increased by 47,000.
The number of day-to-day workers also decreased by 96,000. The number of temporary workers, on the other hand, increased by 152,000 and the number of regular workers increased by 366,000.
By age, individuals aged 60 and over saw the biggest job growth of 330,000 thanks to the jobs created by the government. They were followed by those in their 20s with a job growth of 105,000 and 50s with a job growth of 66,000.
Jobs of 30s and 40s, the peak working age group, fell by 107,000 and 35,000, respectively.
The unemployed count slimmed by 71,000 to 1.04 million last year, bringing down the unemployment rate 0.3 percentage point from a year earlier to 3.7 percent.
The economically inactive population – those who are neither working nor actively seeking jobs - decreased by 3,000 to 16.77 million from a year earlier.
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