In the first quarter of 2018 the unemployment rate in Bulgaria was at 5.7%, or 1.2% lower than the same period last year, the National Statistical Institute announced. According to preliminary data, the labor costs per hour increased with 6.8%. Labor..
According to Eurostat, the average unemployment rate in the 28 Member States of the EU has stabilized at 7.0 percent in May this year, which is the lowest level for the past 10 years. In the euro area unemployment has reached its lowest..
In April 2018 unemployment in Bulgaria was lowest since December 2008, data of the National Employment Agency shows. Last month unemployment fell with 0.4% as compared to March 2018 to 6.4%. In April 2018 unemployment fell with 1.2% as compared to the..
Over 165,000 young people up to the age of 29 have started work with the support of recruitment agents at labour offices over the past four years. Over the same period youth unemployment (15-24 year olds) has almost been reduced by half. In 2013 it..
In February 2018 the unemployment rate in the European Union fell to a new ten-year low (7.1%), data of Eurostat show. Unemployment in the Eurozone fell to 8.5%, which is the lowest level since 2008. In Bulgaria the unemployment rate dwindled to a nine..
Bulgaria’s economy will grow with 4% in 2017, the autumn macroeconomic forecast of the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance shows. The Finance Ministry expects that the country’s economy will mark a 3.9% annual increase in the next three years. Inflation..
Bulgarian Minister of Labor and Social Policy Bisser Petkov has said that the government's main priority in the social sphere is increasing incomes through employment and higher labor productivity. Recalling that the registered unemployment rate..
The latest report of Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute about the labor market in this country looks more than optimistic. In the first quarter of 2017 the economic activity index of the population aged between 15 and 64 was at 62.9% and..
The number of Bulgarian companies which went bankrupt in 2016 was twice higher as compared to 2008 (when the world economic and financial crisis occurred), data of the Registry Agency show. According to analysts, many companies stop functioning, but..
In the third quarter of the year unemployed people in Bulgaria are 229,000, and the unemployment rate is 7%, according to the NSI. On an annual basis the number of unemployed decreased by 50.3 thousand people and the unemployment rate - by 1.3 percent...
