Unemployment in the United Kingdom

Jobless rate drops in Cyprus

The latest data from the Cyprus Statistical Service (CyStat) reveal a positive shift in the country's economic landscape, with the unemployment rate falling to 5.9% in the fourth quarter of 2023, compared to 6.9% in the same period the previous year.

EU Unemployment Rate Reaches Historic Low: Bulgaria Reports Notable Decline to 4.3%

In a significant turn, the unemployment rate across the Eurozone hit a remarkable record low of 6.4% in November 2023, marking a decline from the previous 6.5% in October and notably lower than the 6.7% reported a year earlier in November 2022.

Jobseekers choose ChatGPT

Jobseekers are using or planning to use the new artificial intelligence tool, ChatGPT, in droves, some even secretly without their employers' knowledge, at the same time that the vast majority choose to develop new skills by taking online courses.

Stabilization of Unemployment in the EU in March at the level of 6%, Decrease in Bulgaria to 3.7%

Eurozone unemployment fell in March to a record low of 6.5% from 6.6% in February and below the unemployment rate of 6.8% a year earlier (in March 2022). This is the lowest unemployment rate in the eurozone since 1998 - just before the euro was launched in January 1999, according to data from the European official statistics agency Eurostat.

One in Ten Bulgarians between the ages of 18 and 24 has Dropped out of School Early

15.1% of young people between the ages of 15 and 29 do not study or work, according to the results of the NSI's monitoring of the labor force in Bulgaria in 2022.

One in ten between the ages of 18 and 24 has dropped out of the education system early, the data also show.

The relative share of persons with higher education from the population aged 25 - 34 is 33.8%.

Türkiye’s unemployment rate falls to 9.6 percent

Türkiye's unemployment rate fell to 9.6 percent in August, the lowest reading since March 2014, according to data released yesterday.

Decreasing from a downwardly revised 10 percent in July, the jobless rate saw a single-digit after four years in August, data by the Turkish Statistical Agency (TÜİK) showed.

Survey unemployment rate continues to drop in March

Ljubljana – Slovenia’s ILO-compatible survey unemployment rate was at 4% in March, down by 0.1 percentage point on February and 1.1 percentage point year-on-year, the Statistics Office said on Friday, estimating there were some 41,000 unemployed people in Slovenia last month. Half the unemployed aged 15-74 in March were men and half were women.

PC rule for state administration quashed by top court

Ljubljana – The Constitutional Court has found the government’s regulation imposing Covid-19 recovery or vaccination mandate (PC) on state administration employees at work place in contravention with the constitution for not being aligned with the relevant law. The court already stayed the regulation in late September.

Seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Romania rises to 5.1pct in July 2021

Seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Romania advanced 0.1 percentage points from the previous month, to 5.1%, the National Institute of Statistics (INS) announced on Wednesday. According to INS, the male unemployment rate was 0.7 percentage points higher than the female unemployment rate.

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