Number of Unemployed at 9-Year Low

By , 07 May 2018, 14:45 PM Business
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STA, 7 May 2018 - The number of unemployed registered with Slovenia's Employment Service dropped below the 80,000 mark in April, the lowest seen for the past nine years. 

Figures released by the service on Monday show the jobless total dropping to 78,555 in April, down 3.3% from the month before and down 13.8% compared to April 2017.

A total of 5,232 new unemployed were registered in April, 0.4% fewer than the month before but 0.8% more than in April 2017.

Of the newly unemployed, 3,083 saw their fixed-term employment contracts expire, while 564 were first-time job seekers and 689 were made redundant.

Of the 7,897 who were removed from the unemployed register, 6,475 got a job or became self-employed. The latter figure marks a decline of 21% since March and a fall of 6.6% since April 2017.

The number of unemployed fell in all regions; at the annual level it dropped the most in the Trbovlje area in central Slovenia (-22.8%).

The latest available unemployment rate figure is for February at 9.1%.

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