In July, unemployment rate "is on the increase"

In June 2011, according to the National Employment Office criteria, the unemployment rate, ephemerally reshaped, was estimated to 7.5 percent which means that it increased with 0.1 percent in comparison to the last month and with 0.4 percent, more than the average registered in June, 2010 by the National Institute of Statistics.

In June, according to the National Institute of Statistics, there were over 727 000 people out of employment, with ages between 15 and 74 years.

By gender, the unemployment rate for men outbalances that for women with about 1.2 percent (the figures being 8.1 percent for men and 6.9 for women).

As for the grown-ups (25-74 years), the unemployment rate was estimated to about 5.9 percent in June, 2011 (6.5 percent for men and 5.3 percent for women).

The number of jobless people aged between 25 and 74 years is about 72.1 percent out of the International Employment Office aggregate number of unemployed people as estimated in June, 2011.

The International Employment Office unemployed people meet three conditions simultaneously: they are out of employment, they are available to get a job in the next two weeks and they have been looking for a job for about four months.

Translated: Cristina Anamaria Maricescu
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University