3.7% rise in full-time employment

According to data provided by the ETC, over a period of one year, the labour supply (excluding part-timers) increased by 3.1%, reaching 171,432.

This increase was mainly attributed to a rise in the full-time gainfully occupied population and a drop in registered unemployment.

In August 2014, administrative and support service activities and professional, scientific and technical activities contributed mostly to the increase in employment, compared to the August 2013.

 Registered full-time employment in the private sector went up by 3,793 persons, to 120,668, and public sector full-time employment increased by 2,078 persons to 44,066 people.

The number of persons registered as full-time self-employed rose by 411 from August 2013, while the number of persons registered as employees increased by 5,460.

Full-time employment for males and females went up by 2.6 per cent and 5.6 per cent respectively since August 2013.

Registered part-time employment in August 2014 went up by 7.7% when compared to August 2013. The sectors that contributed most to the overall increase in part-time employment were public administration and defence, compulsory social security, followed by education.

The number of part-timers who also held a full-time job added up to 24,841. This figure went up by 6.4% when compared to the August 2013.

Employed persons whose part-time job was their primary occupation totalled 36,899, which went up by 8.6% or 2,915 persons, when compared to 2013 levels.