Unemployment

Bosnia's overall population has shrunk significantly in the last 20 years, from 4.3 million in the last pre-war census in 1991 to 3.5 million today. Many of the leavers have been young.

Turkey's unemployment rate stood at 13.0% in April this year, the country's statistical authority announced on July 16.

In the first six months of the year, the number of people who started work exceeds the number of those who are registered as unemployed, the Employment Agency reports. For the period, 123,410 unemployed registered in the Labor Offices have started work.

Greece's jobless rate fell to 17.6 percent in April from an upwardly revised 18.2 percent in the previous month, data from the country's statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday.

The jobless rate in April was the lowest reading since June 2011.

Nearly 85% of graduates in Bulgaria aged 20-34, who graduated last year, have found a job and have successfully acquired the knowledge, show data from Eurostat's analysis of the employment rate of graduates in the EU in 2018

The employment index of Bulgaria's graduates is even higher than the EU average, where 83% of graduates have started to work.

Student Iro Stafilaki delivers a monologue on stage during a rehearsal at the Praxi Epta theater school in Athens, pursuing her dream of becoming an actor despite the difficulties as Greece claws its way out of a financial crisis.

Apparently, there are jobs out there in the Greek labor market, according to Greece's biggest business organization.

Greek universities produce graduates in bulk, without them meeting the requirements of the local market, according to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV). The survey found that despite the huge number of unemployed people, Greek enterprises are often unable to fill vacancies with adequately skilled staff.

In May 2019, the unemployment rate in the 28 countries of the European Union fell to a new record low of 6.3%, within the eurozone - to a near 11-year low of 7.5%, and in Bulgaria stabilized in April a historic bottom of 4.5% - the lowest level since 2000 since Eurostat has data for our country.

The state made so many public sector hirings over the first three months of the year that it overshadowed the economy's main employment leaders, i.e. services and tourism, according an analysis by Alpha Bank in its weekly bulletin.