The delay in obtaining permanent positions can also affect pension accumulations with consequences for old-age security. In Luxembourg it decreased slightly (from 3.9 to 3.6), in Malta and Finland there was basically no change whereas all remaining countries experienced an increase. Out of the total number of unemployed youth, the share that has been unemployed for more than 12 months has increased sharply in the South-West Eurozone Periphery countries and Cyprus, as well as some Central and Eastern European countries (i.e. Bulgaria, Slovakia and Croatia), all these countries experienced increases in the range of 8.2 (in the case of Bulgaria) to 22.5 percentage points (in the case of Greece). In Spain this indicator increased more than 8 times since 2008 and around two out of ten young unemployed have been in this situation for more than 12 months. In Latvia, Slovenia and the Netherlands the increases have been smaller in absolute terms but considerable given the initial conditions: indeed, in these countries the share of young long-term unemployed is 2 to 3 times higher than it was in 2008. Break in time series for Estonia, Austria and France (2013), Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Portugal and Slovakia (2011), Netherlands, Poland and Portugal (2010).