Before the COVID-19 crisis the country experienced a significant boost in knowledge, intensive jobs.
Between 2012 and 2019, 21 000 jobs were added in knowledge-intensive companies. However, that trend was reversed in 2020, as 1,300 of this kind of jobs were lost during the year. Thus, the share of the labour force employed in knowledge-intensive occupations decreased slightly during the year, from 5.2 % in 2019 to 5.1% in 2020.
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