Millions of European workers earn a small part of the average salary of their country. According to the latest Eurostat data, Nearly 15 % of the European Union employment It is formed before Low wages workers.
This people are classified from the moment they win Two -thirds or less than average salary From their countries. The report shows a wonderful gender gap: 18.2 % of women enter this categoryCompared to 12.5 % of men. Young people are particularly affected: One in four Low wages workers He is less than 30 years old.
The highest percentage of low wage workers is registered in Bulgaria (26.8 %), Romania (23.9 %), Latvia (23.3 %) y Greece (21.7 %), on the contrary, countries like Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Italy and Slovenia offer the lowest indicators, which means distributing more homogeneous salaries.
Restoration workers, the most affected
He drives existing hospitality and food workers, Using more than a third (35.1 %) of all workers who have low salaries in the European UnionFollowing it closely on administrative services, logistics services, or consulting, by 32 %.
The type of contract and education also plays an important role in income definition. People who have certain period contracts have more than a double possibility to enter this category Those who have unlimited contracts (27.2 % compared to 12.6 %).
Education also has a big difference since then Almost 28 % of workers with a low school level It ends in the poorest ribbon of salaries, compared to only 4.8 % of those called graduate and medium studies (17.5 %).
Video editor Mert can yilmaz
