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Number of employees in Latvia is highest in past 20 years

BC, Riga, 14.12.2017.Print version
The number of registered employees in Latvia is the highest in the past 20 years, said State Employment Agency director Evita Simsone in an interview with commercial LNT television on December 14th, cites LETA.

She said that the number of vacancies registered with the agency is also growing right now.

 

Simsone said that the average wage offered for the vacancies registered with the agency is EUR 840 a month, which is close to the average wage in the country.

 

Speaking about average unemployed person, Simsone said that they are mostly women, people around the age of 50, and people with secondary or elementary education.

 

As reported, the registered unemployment reached 6.7% in November, up 0.1%age point from October. There were 61,538 unemployed people registered with the State Employment Agency in late November, growing by 524 people from the previous month.

 

At the end of last November, the unemployment rate was at 8%.






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