Unemployment
Consumer confidence rebounds from 6-year lows
Consumer confidence in Turkey recovered by 1.5 percent in April from a six-year low in March, with improvements in the probabilities of savings and unemployment expectations, according to the Consumer Confidence Index data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜ?K) on April 22.
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Serbia ranks first in region in youth emigration
BELGRADE - For the past two decades, Serbia has ranked first in the region - and second in the world - in emigration of young and educated people, the participants of the Youth Economic Forum at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia warned on Wednesday.
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450,000 Bulgarians Work From Their Own Homes
Approximately 450,000 Bulgarians earn their living working from home, as noted by a report presented by HomeNet Eastern Europe.
Prior to 2009 home workers were mostly retired people or permanently unemployed people. Currently, those two groups are joined by recent graduates - young laywers, economists, teachers and even artists, as explained by the organization.
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Vulin: Unemployment rate down to 16.8 percent
BELGRADE - The unemployment rate in Serbia is down to 16.8 percent and is four percent lower than in March 2014, Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment and Veteran and Social Affairs Aleksandar Vulin said on Tuesday.
Presenting a report on the ministry's work over the past year, Vulin said that this was a result of active employment policy measures.
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Early Easter boosts job hirings
The earlier-than-usual start to the tourism season ? thanks to Orthodox Easter falling in the first half of April ? helped the labor market to post a slight recovery last month, with the Labor Ministry?s Ergani hiring register showed a net rise of 22,313 jobs in March.
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INS: Unemployment rate, down to 6.8% in 2014
Romania's unemployment rate stood at 6.8% in 2014, down compared to the previous year, and the employment rate of the working-age population (aged 15 to 64) reached 61%, show the data released on Friday by the National Statistics Institute /INS/.
Photo credit: (c) Cristian NISTOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE
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Bulgaria's Unemployment Rate Remained Stable in March
According to the latest figures of the Bulgarian Employment Agency, which were released on Thursday, the unemployment rate in March stood at 11 %, retaining its level from February.
However compared to the same month a year ago, the unemployment rate registered a decrease with 1.2 %, the website of the National Employment Agency informs.
Turkey's unemployment rate rises to highest level in five years
Turkey?s unemployment rate has climbed to its highest level since 2010, as economic activity slowed down in several sectors, the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜ?K) has announced.
Unemployment increased to 11.3 percent in January, up from 10.9 percent in December, TÜ?K said on April 15.
Jobless Protesters Trudge to Sarajevo, Threatening Suicide
Unemployed veterans Sefik Muminovic, 55, and Dzemal Zahirovic, 59, arrived in the Sarajevo suburbs early on Tuesday morning after walking 108 kilometres along winding mountain roads from the northern industrial town of Zivinice.
Jobless rate records marginal drop
Greece?s high unemployment rate posted a minor decline in January compared with the previous month, slipping to 25.7 percent from 25.9 percent in December 2014, according to data released on Thursday by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT).
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