Graduates increase unemployment rate to 4.18 pct in July, says ANOFM

The graduates increased the unemployment rate by 0.03 percentage points to 4.18 percent in July, compared with June, says the National Agency for Workforce Occupancy (ANOFM), according to a release of the institution from this Monday.

„At the end of June, the unemployment rate registered at national level increased by 0.03 percentage points than the previous month. The increase due to the registration of the graduates in the data base of ANOFM, the situation which happens in the same period as in the last years, the unemployment rate in July 2016 was by 0.61 percentage points higher than the one of this year. Out of 366,576 persons registered in the evidence of ANOFM, 62,003 received unemployment indemnity,” says the document.

Compared with the previous month, the unemployment rate among men remained constant to 4.49 percent, while among women it increased by 3.75 percent in June, to 3.81 percent.

According to residence, most of them come from rural area, respectively 259,399 unemployed.

Most of the unemployed were between 40-49 years (105,980), followed by those aged between 30-39 years (74,850), in opposition with those aged between 25-29 years (27,366).

„On the unemployment structure according to the training level, the unemployment without studies and those with primary studies level, the secondary and vocational schools had the highest share in the overall unemployed in ANOFM data base (79.28 percent), while the unemployed with high school studies and post-high school modules represented 16.74 percent and those with university studies had 3.98 percent,” says the source.

In July the unemployment rate decreased in 17 localities.