{"id":13266,"date":"2020-02-24T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/unemployment-rate-in-bulgaria-down-by-0-6-percentage-points-in-q4-2019\/"},"modified":"2020-02-24T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:29:08","slug":"unemployment-rate-in-bulgaria-down-by-0-6-percentage-points-in-q4-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/he\/unemployment-rate-in-bulgaria-down-by-0-6-percentage-points-in-q4-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Rate in Bulgaria Down by 0.6 Percentage Points in Q4 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the fourth\u00a0<b>quarter<\/b>\u00a0of\u00a0<b>2019<\/b>\u00a0there were 138.5 thousand unemployed persons, of whom 80.6 thousand (58.2%) men and 57.9 thousand (41.8%) women. The\u00a0<b>unemployment<\/b>\u00a0rate was 4.1%, 4.4% and 3.8% for men and women respectively. In comparison with the fourth\u00a0<b>quarter<\/b>\u00a0of 2018, the\u00a0<b>unemployment<\/b>\u00a0rate went\u00a0<b>down<\/b>\u00a0by 0.6 percentage points, registering the same decrease for men and women. Among all unemployed persons, 9.5% had attained tertiary education, 45.9% had completed upper secondary education and 44.6% had at most lower secondary education, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>unemployment<\/b>\u00a0rate by level of educational attainment was as follows: 1.3% for higher education, 3.3% for upper secondary and 13.8% for education lower than upper secondary. In the fourth\u00a0<b>quarter<\/b>\u00a0of\u00a0<b>2019<\/b>\u00a0there were 73.6 thousand long-term unemployed persons (unemployed for one or more years), representing 53.1% of all unemployed persons. The long-term\u00a0<b>unemployment<\/b>\u00a0rate was 2.2%, 2.3% for men and 2.1% for women.<\/p>\n<p>Of all unemployed people 25.5 thousand (18.4%) were looking for first job. In the fourth\u00a0<b>quarter<\/b>\u00a0of\u00a0<b>2019<\/b>, the\u00a0<b>unemployment<\/b>\u00a0rate for the age group 15 &#8211; 29 years was 6.7%, by 0.7 percentage points lower than in a year earlier. The\u00a0<b>unemployment<\/b>\u00a0rate (15 &#8211; 29 years) was 7.2% for men and 5.9% for women.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.novinite.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fourth\u00a0quarter\u00a0of\u00a02019\u00a0there were 138.5 thousand unemployed persons, of whom 80.6 thousand (58.2%) men and 57.9 thousand (41.8%) women. The\u00a0unemployment\u00a0rate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sr-blog-bulgaria-news-he"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sr-management.bg\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}