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Innovation and Employment

Category KPI Result Performance to Benchmark SDG

R&D expenditure 3.53 %
(relative to GDP)

Patents
(per 100 000 129.60
inhabitants)

Small and Medium-
Sized Enterprises 99.40 %
(SMEs)

Unemployment Rate 3.52 %

Youth Unemployment
Rate 2.63 %

Tourism Sector
Employment 4.10 %

ICT Sector Employment 2.71 %

Unemployment levels are low in Pully, as compared with the Swiss overall unemployment rate of 4.7
per cent (Q4 - 2018), while its rate of youth unemployment is significantly lower than the 2018 national
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level of 7.9 per cent. 6

Pully over-performing on youth unemployment relative to other European localities of its size and
population makeup is typical of the national trend, where time-series data indicate that unemployment
among Swiss youth is lower as compared with unemployment rates of up to 20.3 per cent (2015)
among the European Union (EU) countries. Switzerland's apprenticeship programme for vocational
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and professional training successfully graduates close to 70 per cent of Swiss youth, which, when
combined with mandatory school-based education, helps to keep youth unemployment and (the
oft-related) adult poverty levels relatively low. Swiss youths who complete apprenticeship are three
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times less likely to be unemployed, which is consistent with results seen in Germany and Austria, which
implement similar programmes. 9

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