Number of jobless claims goes up in Romania in July
The number of jobless claims in Romania went up in July compared to the previous month, reaching over 366,000.
This was a result of new high school graduates registering to receive unemployment benefits, according to the National Workforce Occupation Agency – ANOFM.
The national unemployment rate was 4.18%, up 0.03 percentage points compared to June. However, the rate was 0.61 percentage points lower than in July 2016, according to ANOFM data.
The highest unemployment rates were in Vaslui (10.38%), Teleorman (10.15%), Galati (9.66%), and Buzau (9.44%). The lowest was in Ilfov county (1.07%).
About one in six of the 366,576 unemployed people in Romania, namely 62,000, received unemployment benefits.
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