Central Bureau of Statistics: the number of job vacancies continues to be higher than 140,000
Posted on Jan 18, 2022 by Ifi Reporter
The Central Bureau of Statistics announced that the number of job vacancies continues to be higher than 140,000, compared to just under 100,000 until the crisis broke out in March 2020. Data published today show that the number of job vacancies last December was 141,037, compared to 140,897 in November. The vacancy rate in the economy reached 4.91% compared to 4.93%, out of the total labor force, which rose slightly last month and therefore the percentage fell by a minimal percentage.
The number of job vacancies has almost doubled in the first corona year, 2020. The increase in the number of job vacancies in the first half of 2021 was however higher than in the second half of the past year. In recent months, the trend has been fairly stable, but despite the opening of almost the entire economy, except in the field of tourism, the number of job vacancies has declined - despite a consistent decline in the unemployment rate.
This situation should serve as a warning sign to the government, which has not done enough to direct workers, mainly through vocational training and retraining, to industries suffering from manpower shortages.
At the same time, it seems that in many industries employers avoid raising workers' wages and these refuse to return to previous work after many of them stayed at home on unpaid leave and received unemployment benefits without working.
The data show that the situation is particularly serious in the Tel Aviv district, where most of the workers are in Israel, in the fourth quarter of 2021 there were a high number of 43,031 job vacancies, close to 30% of all vacancies. This is compared to 19,721 unmanned jobs in the fourth quarter of the first corona year, 2020.
In Jerusalem there were 12,474 job vacancies (4,718 in the last quarter of 2020), in the Central District 35,094 (14,944), in Haifa 11,308 (5,911), in the North 11,404 (5,482) and in the Southern District 12,826 (5,599).
The situation in some industries in the economy is particularly serious and indicates a non-conversion of workers to the required occupations: in the last quarter of 2021, there were 16,899 engineers members - 84% percent than on the eve of the corona, in 2019. Of that number, 13,280 software developers were missing, a record increase from all industries - by 94%, compared to 2019.
Also missing in the last quarter of the year (in parentheses is the increase rate compared to the last quarter in 2019): 10,790 sales workers (32% more), 10,310 waiters and bartenders (65%), 5,874 kitchen and cleaning workers (15%), 4,727 telephone sales representatives (72 5,311 Nursing caregivers (34%), 3,304 Sequences, chippers, plasterers, locksmiths and skeleton workers in the field of construction (30%), 4,042 drivers (23%), 4,364 security guards (44%), 4,533 practical engineers and technicians (21%), 4,223 cooks (70%) and 3,376 officials (84% more than in 2019).
Only in one profession were there fewer workers missing in the last quarter of 2021 than in the last quarter of 2019: 1,554 home builders, builders and concrete builders are now missing, a decrease of 55%.
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