Unemployment Crawls Up
In October 8.23% of all registered with the labour bureaus were out of job, the unemployment rate is higher than the average for the country in 20 regions. Four regions report a minimal decrease of jobless
Bulgaria News | 19.11.2009 17:09The number of registered unemployed in the entire country is now 304,915 people, as I the last month alone 7,400 employees were left without job, statistics for October of the Agency on Employment shows. In the last month unemployment rate reached 8.23%, by 0.2% more as compared to September, and by 2.38% year-on-year. In the last month the most people lost their jobs in the processing industry – 19% of all registered, commerce – 16%, state rule and defence – 10.8%, and construction industry – 8.2%. Just 0.8% of all registering with labour bourses are coming home from abroad, the data shows.
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