Labor market: Young people mostly live at the expense of their relatives

Labor market: Young people mostly live at the expense of their relatives

More than half of 15 to 24-year-olds live at the expense of their families. This is shown by figures from the Federal Statistical Office.

The majority (51 percent) of young people aged 15 to 24 in Germany live at the expense of their parents or other relatives. Only 38 percent earned most of their living themselves last year and lived from their own gainful employment, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office on Thursday for Youth Day (August 12). Just 30 years earlier, the ratio was exactly the opposite: more than half (52 percent) lived on their earned income and 40 percent were still financially dependent on their relatives.

Every tenth young person (10.4 percent) received their main income from public services last year. This group also includes many who were neither in training nor in work. Their share rose again to 7.5 percent during the Corona crisis after a ten-year low of 5.7 percent had been reached in 2019.

In a European comparison, the opportunities for young people on the German labor market are above average: Only 6.9 percent of the labor force between the ages of 15 and 24 were unemployed in this country in 2021, while the figure in the EU was 16.6 percent. However, almost a third of young employees (29.2 percent) in Germany are in so-called atypical contractual relationships. These include part-time, fixed-term positions, temporary work or marginal employment.

Destatis for youth day

Source: Stern

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