Unemployment rate in Greece for the first quarter of 2024 stood at 12.1% compared to 10.5% in the previous quarter and 11.8% in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The number of unemployed persons amounted to 574,130, recording an increase by 17.5% compared to the previous quarter and an …
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Unemployment in Greece “stuck” in double-digit rate since 2010
Unemployment in Greece has remained at a double-digit rate for last 14 years and has failed to drop below 10%. Even in the last 18 months of contraction, it has failed to drop below 10%, with experts pointing to a pool of 500,000 unemployed at the hard core of the …
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Greece’s unemployment rate down to 10.9% in August
Unemployment rate in Greece was down to 10.9% in August 2023 from 12.3% in August last year, but remained largely unchanged from July, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Monday. Τhe number of unemployed people in August was 512,193, down 71,013 from August 2022 and down 2,080 from July 2023. The …
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Unemployment in Greece down to 10.9%; still half a million without job
Unemployment rate in Greece fell to 10.9% of the workforce in March 2023s year, from 11.3% in February and 12.7% in March 2022, Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT said on Wednesday. The number of unemployed people totaled 508,744, down 100,395 from March 2022 (16.5%) and down 14,096 from February 2023 (2.7%). …
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Unemployment in Greece rises to 11.4% in February
Greece’s jobless rate stood at 11.4% in February, up from a downwardly revised 10.3% in January, data from statistics service ELSTAT showed on Friday. Seasonally adjusted data showed 526,742 people were officially unemployed, with those under the age of 24 the hardest hit. Unemployment was more widely spread among women …
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“Unemployment Police”: fines of €10,000, sanctions for those refusing jobs
A so-called “unemployment police” to implement the new penal code is underway together with fines of up to 10,000 euros and deletion from the unemployed registers is the latest attempt of the conservative neo-liberal government not only to decrease the numbers of unemployed from the official statistics but also to …
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Unemployment in Greece rise amid peak of tourism season
The number of unemployed in Greece rose in July compared to June, despite the tourism season entering its peak period, data released by the Public Employment Agency show. In July, the registered unemployed actively seeking jobs stood at 948,930, 27,283 more than in June. Of those, 67.21% (637,836) are women, …
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Greek PM announces raise of minimum wage, unemployment benefit
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis finally announced the much anticipated increase of the minimum wage as well as an increase of the unemployment allowance. “My decision today addresses the low-incomers and the unemployed,” he said in his televised message. The PM’s pre-Easter gift on Holy Wednesday is 50 euros more per …
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Greece’s unemployment rate reaches 17.1% in first quarter 2021
Greece’s unemployment rate in the first quarter of the year reached 17.1 percent, up from 16.2 percent in the previous quarter and in the same period last year, according to data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). In its latest quarter labor force survey, ELSTAT said the number of people …
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IMF on Greece: Weak recovery in 2021, unemployment 20%, primary surpluses from 2022
Greece will return to primary surpluses from 2022 after reporting higher primary deficits and public debts in 2020, the International Monetary Fund said its Fiscal Monitor report released on Wednesday. The IMF based its 2020 forecasts on the belief that political interventions to manage the pandemic have led to a …
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Unemployment up 19.9% between June 2020 and 2019
Registered unemployment fell 3.16% to 1,126,173 in June 2020, from 1,163,955 in May 2020 and rose from 938,812 in June last year (up 19.96%), Greece’s Manpower Employment Authority OAED said on Monday. The number of unemployed people seeking jobs in June was 1,068,856, with 536,144 (50.16%) of them being long-time …
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Registered unemployed skyrocket to 25.13% in May
Thousands of seasonal workers were not hired in May, the month when usually recruitment in the tourism industry takes place. In the shadow of the coronavirus crisis, unemployment in May skyrocketed to 25.13% when compared to the same month in 2019. The number of registered unemployed in the Greek Employment …
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Tourism workers protest new anti-labor laws, get teargassed
Hundreds of desperate workers in the tourism and catering sectors as well as people working at Athens international airport gathered outside the Labor Ministry to protest the new anti-labor laws and the miserable working conditions that have arisen from the coronavirus pandemic. After 2.5 months of lockdown, they demanded a …
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Unemployment in Greece biggest increase than 2011-2013, warns Enterprises Federation
Unemployment rate in Greece is expected to record the biggest increase in a decade, surpassing the period 2011-2013, despite the fact that government measures managed to contain job losses, the Federation of Hellenic Enterprises (SEV) said in a report released on Monday. Worth recalling that unemployment during the Greek economic …
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Thousands of positions in Greece’s hotel sector remained unfilled in 2019
While unemployment rates in Greece were high and thousands of jobs were available in Greece’s hospitality sector last year, many positions remained unfilled. According to a study presented by the Institute for Tourism Research and Forecasts (ITEP) last week, 7,000 positions in Greek hotels remained unfilled. The study, conducted by …
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Unemployment in Greece falls to 16.6% in Oct 2019
Unemployment in Greece declined further in October 2019 compared to the corresponding month of 2018, according to data released by Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT on Thursday. According to ELSTAT, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October 2019 stood at 16.6% against the revised downward 18.5% in October 2018 and 16.8% …
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“Ghost” of rising unemployment returns to Greece
The “ghost” of rising unemployment and layoffs has returned to Greece in the last three months with the dismissals to surpass the hiring of labor forces. In November alone, 30,559 jobs disappeared. Unemployment has increased in September, October and November, data from the Ergani system of the Labor Ministry show. …
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Greek unemployment falls to 16.95% in July from 19.1% a year earlier
The unemployment rate in Greece fell to 16.95 in July, from 19.1% in July 2018 and 17.1% in June 2019, Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT said on Thursday. ELSTAT said in its monthly report that the number of unemployed people totaled 797,218 in July, down 109,577 from July 2018 (a decline …
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Unemployment rate in Greece falls to 16.9% in Q2 2019
Greek unemployment rate fell to 16.9 pct of the workforce in the second quarter of 2019, from 19.2 pct in the first quarter and 19 pct in the same period last year, the Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT said on Thursday. According to the released report, the number of unemployed people …
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Unemployment among university graduates in Greece highest in EU
University graduates in Greece topped the list for the unemployment of young graduates in the EU28, with a 20% unemployment rate. Greece ranks 25th based on the annual equivalent net income of university graduates, a survey by the General Confederation of Employees of Greece (GSEE) – the biggest trade union …
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