Unemployment

Inequalities between women and men in the job market that have been exacerbated due to the COVID-19 pandemic will persist and there will be 13 million fewer women employed in 2021 than in 2019, while men's employment will have succeeded in recovering, an International Labor Organization (ILO) report projected on July 19. 

The level of registered unemployment in the country continued to decline and in June reached 5.2 per cent, according to data from the administrative statistics of the National Employment Agency, it reported on Thursday.
Thus, in June the lowest value of registered unemployment ever reported by the institution was repeated.

Turkey's unemployment rate was 13.2% in May, decreasing 0.6 percentage points from the previous month, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) on July 12. 

The rate was also down by 0.3 percentage points versus the same month last year, TÜİK said in a statement.

Prime Minister Florin Citu said on Monday that unemployment in Romania has fallen every month in 2021, adding that Romania's economy has, due to the good activity of the government he leads, "the fastest recovery from an economic crisis in the last one hundred years." "Unemployment has been falling every month since 2021.

The unemployment rate in Greece decreased to 15.4% in May 2021, compared to 17.2% in the previous month and 16.9% in May 2020, according to Eurostat data on unemployment published today.

Unemployment reached 17.1% in the first quarter of 2021, according to data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority.

The unemployment rate in the previous quarter (Q4 2020) and in the corresponding quarter of the previous year (Q1 2020) was 16.2%.

Ljubljana – Finance says on Monday that true picture of the economy will soon show as subsidised furlough and monthly universal basic income expire at the end of June being probably one of the two key state measures to fight the consequences of the Covid-19 epidemic. There are some concerns, which is understandable, it adds.

The employment rate for Romania's working age population (15 - 64 years) in Q1 2021 was 60.8 percent, down from 65.8 percent in the previous quarter, while the unemployment rate advanced to 6.1 percent from 5.2 percent, shows data released on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

By Lefteris Charalambopoulos

I fear that whether it concerns governmental policy planners or the opposition, or all sorts of analysts, we constantly talk about labour without thinking about workers.

This assistance is realized within the third package of assistance measures for citizens and the economy.
Unlike the previous two packages, this package included unemployment benefits for the first time.