29.12.2021

THE NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED THIS YEAR IS NEARLY 145,000 LESS

The newly registered unemployed in the labor offices across the country since the beginning of the year are nearly 145,000 fewer people than in 2020. This is shown by the data from the specialized monitoring of the National Statistical Institute and the Employment Agency on the labor market.

Surveillance data show that from 28 December 2020 to 19 December 2021 the newly registered unemployed were just over 273 thousand people, and from the end of December 2019 to December 2020 418 thousand people. At the same time, 249,220,000 people started working through employment offices.

In the last week observed so far, December 13-19, 2021, the trend that began in the summer, the newly registered unemployed to be more than those who started work, continues. They are 4440 and 2800 people respectively.

However, the second year of the pandemic shows an improvement in the labor market situation compared to 2020.

The chief expert on the labor market in CITUB Atanaska Todorova commented:

"The initial shock of the pandemic and the stress in employers and people who were in precarious jobs of registering as unemployed and earning a monthly income is gone in the second year of the pandemic. The people themselves, the business itself, the state is already somehow acquainted with what is happening in the labor market, this cycle of closing and opening businesses and the measures, of course, that are being taken.