{"id":86345,"date":"2015-04-07T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T15:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2015\/04\/07\/242655\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:17:18","slug":"5-9-unemployment-in-eurasian-economic-union-space-in-february-against-5-6-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2015\/04\/07\/86345\/","title":{"rendered":"5.9% unemployment in Eurasian Economic Union space in February against 5.6% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"

YEREVAN, April 7. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Calculations made by using the International Labor Organization\u2019s methodology show that 5.9% of economically active people in the Eurasian Economic Union space were unemployed in February 2015, while one month earlier this indicator stood at 5.6%, the Eurasian Economic Commission reports on its website.<\/p>\n

According to the Eurasian Economic Commission\u2019s latest figures, unemployment in Armenia was recorded at 17.1% (the 3rd Q 2014), in Kazakhstan at 5.0% (February 2015) and in Russia at 5.8% (February 2015).<\/p>\n

For comparison \u2013 the average unemployment rate in the European Union was 9.8% in January 2015 and in the United States 5.5% in February 2015.<\/p>\n

The Eurasian Economic Commission says referring to the rates tallied from the lists of jobless people registered by employment agencies that unemployment in Belarus was recorded at 0.8%, in Kazakhstan 0.6% and in Russia 1.3% in February 2015.<\/p>\n

In February 2015 compared with February 2014, the number of unemployed people registered in employment agencies in the Eurasian Economic Union space rose 4.5% – in Armenia it increased 21.2%, in Belarus 54.9%, in Kazakhstan 8.0% and in Russia 2.1%.<\/p>\n

The number of the job vacancies announced by enterprises and organizations and listed at employment agencies shrank 20.1% in February 2015, compared with the same month a year before, and 7.6, compared with January 2015.<\/p>\n

Some 182,500 jobseekers were employed in the Eurasian Economic Union member countries via employment agencies in February 2015. This is 1.4% less than in February 2014 and 43.5% more than in January 2015. Some 309,600 people have been employed since the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n

According to the National Statistical Service of Armenia, unemployment went 1.4 percent up in the country in 2014, compared with the previous year, to 17.6%. –0–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calculations made by using the International Labor Organization\u2019s methodology show that 5.9% of economically active people in the Eurasian Economic Union space were unemployed in February 2015, while one month earlier this indicator stood at 5.6%, the Eurasian Economic Commission reports on its website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9216],"tags":[15837,13892,12803],"class_list":["post-86345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-armenia-2","tag-economic-union","tag-unemployment"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t