Unemployment

Number of employed down 0.4% m-o-m, jobless up 0.9 pct

29.03.2013 u 14:11

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There were 1,336,840 people with jobs in Croatia in February, down 0.4 per cent on the month, the State Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.

In February, the number of the employed had declined for the seventh consecutive month.

On the year, the number of the employed dropped 2.7 per cent.

The number of the jobless registered with the Employment Service at the end of February was 375,400, up 0.9% on the month, with the registered unemployment rate reaching 21.9% in February.