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Unemployment Still Slightly Below 13 percent
Thursday 18 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, March 18 (TASR) - Slovakia's unemployment rate rose slightly again in February 2010, going up by 0.08 percentage points month-on-month to reach 12.97 percent, the Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Centre (UPSVaR) announced on Thursday.
According to Peter Zeman from the UPSVaR Director's Office, the situation on the Slovak labour market is beginning to stabilise. "What is positive as well is a drop in unemployment rates at the regional level, which has been recorded in as many as 27 districts," said Zeman.
The highest rate in February was observed in the district of Rimavska Sobota (Banska Bystrica region), where 33.93 percent were out of work. The lowest rate was recorded in Bratislava I District (2.78 percent).
Zeman also welcomed the fact that the number of people registering themselves as jobless at job centres is diminishing compared to the recent past. A total of 26,340 people joined the lists of the unemployed in February, down by 9,376 month-on-month and by 10,038 year-on-year.
Conversely, the number of those leaving the lists went up by 5,399 y-o-y.
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