739,073 jobless people in July

A total of 739,073 unemployed persons were on the register of the National Employment Service (NZS) in July.

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 05.08.2015.

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739,073 jobless people in July

According to age groups, young people under 30 accounted for 25.2 percent in the registered jobless total, those between 30 and 49 years - 47.7 percent, show the data contained in the workforce survey for the first quarter of 2015.

Serbia's unemployment rate stood at 19.2 percent in the first quarter (for the population aged 15 and older), which is a year-on-year drop of 1.6 percent, reads the survey.

The employment rate was 49.9 percent in the first quarter of 2015 (for the working-age population between 15 and 64 years), and the labor force numbered 2,390,044, according to the same source.

The employment rate reflects a slide of 0.5 percentage points in comparison to the previous quarter, and a rise of 1.9 percentage points in comparison the first quarter of 2014 when it stood at 48 percent.

As the survey shows, there was a year-on-year jump in the number of people in job by 160.981 in the first quarter of 2015.

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