Tag: unemployment
Economy 11.03.23 | 09:33

Unemployment in Q4 of 2022 at 14 %

The unemployment rate in the Republic of Macedonia in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2022 was 14 percent, said the State Statistical Office on Friday. The activity rate in this period was 54.9 percent, while the employment rate was 47.2 percent. In Q4, the labour force in the Republic of Macedonia numbered...
Macedonia Economy 29.11.20 | 20:24

Minister Sahpaska insists there are only 16,000 Covid related job losses, not 40,000 as reported

Labour and Welfare Minister Jagoda Sahpaska blamed the returning diaspora emigrants for the spike in the unemployment rate in Macedonia, where more than 40,000 newly unemployed people were registered since the start of the coronavirus epidemic. Sahpaska insisted that only 16,000 of htose are actual job...
Economy 27.08.20 | 13:29

Unemployment spikes, average salary drops by 5 percent

A statistic report compiled by the Reflektor site shows that the number of job seekers grew by 36,362 between the end of March and the end of August. There were 107,732 active job seekers registered with the Employment agency in April and now the number has grown to 144,094. The period also saw a 5...
Economy 27.07.20 | 11:57

Statistics report shows there are far more employed men than women

The State Statistics Bureau (DZS) informed that there are 150.000 more employed men than women in Macedonia. According to the latest DZS publication, there are nearly 800.000 employed citizens, and of them, 477,437 are men and 320,214 are women. The significant difference between sexes is not explained...
Economy 19.06.20 | 09:52

Lazarov: Number of lost jobs is probably twice the officially reported 15.000

The economy is in free-fall, with a drop of industrial production of 40 percent and a reduction in exports of 60 percent, said professor Darko Lazarov, who is a member of the VMRO-DPMNE Economy Committee. This is caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, but also the badly mismanaged response by the Government....
Economy 06.05.20 | 17:31

Coronavirus linked job losses rise to 8.160

The Employment Agency reported that it has registered 8.160 new unemployed claims between early March and late April. About half of the people who were fired in this period lost their job after their temporary employment contracts expired and were not renewed. Of the rest, a quarter signed a mutually...
Economy 12.04.20 | 15:00

Unemployment rate in Macedonia could rise over 20 percent, Slaveski warns

Economy professor and VMRO-DPMNE official Trajko Slaveski warned that Macedonia could see the unemployment rate go back above 20 percent. Slaveski said that the SDSM led Government is badly late in preparing a rescue package for the economy in response to the coronavirus crisis. With every day that goes...
Economy 31.01.20 | 10:59

Unemployment in the EU drops to its lowest-ever point, V4 countries in the lead

Figures released by Eurostat on Thursday reveal that the unemployment rate in the European Union fell to its lowest level ever in December 2019 and to an 11-year low in the euro area. The Czech Republic boasts the lowest unemployment rate in the whole of the European Union, while jobless figures in Poland...
Economy 24.09.19 | 19:31

Gap in workforce statistics raises doubts about the official unemployment rate

Discrepancies between the size of the workforce reported by the State Statistics Bureau (DZS) and the Employment Agency (AVRM) have prompted allegations that the numbers are being “massaged” to make the drop in unemployment seem bigger than it actually is. According to the Statistics Bureau,...
Macedonia 20.03.19 | 14:24

While the rest of the Balkans moves forward, Macedonia sees increase in youth unemployment

Macedonia and Kosovo are the only two Balkan countries that have not registered a drop in youth unemployment, under the latest World Bank report. Macedonia saw its youth unemployment increase from 47.1 to 47.6 percent. The report also finds that almost every third young person in Macedonia works in the...
Economy 12.02.19 | 17:19

Macedonia is sixth in the world according to the unemployment rate

According to Gold Broker, Macedonia currently shares sixth place with Angola in the world according to the unemployment rate of 20 percent. Congo with 46 percent tops the list, second is Bosnia and Herzegovina with 35 percent, and third Kosovo with 30 percent. Macedonia is just ahead of South Africa...

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