ast year 220,400 job applicants found job. This number represents 60.9 percent of the total number of job seekers whom labor offices erased from their registers. Labor offices erased 62,300 jobless who did not cooperate, which is 17.2 percent of the total number of people erased from registers, suggests a draft final account of the budgetary chapter of the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family for 2006. The remaining 79,000 registered job seekers were erased from the register because of other reasons.
According to the document 1,500 unemployed more found job in 2006 than in the previous year. The number of job seekers who were erased from jobless registers due to insufficient cooperation with the authority dropped by 2.200 and the y/y drop in the number of other job applicants erased from the register represented 5,800.
The average number of job seekers able to take up a job immediately was 265,400, down 35,800 y/y. The total average number of registered unemployed was 299,200 last year, down 41,200 y/y.
Unemployment rate calculated from the number of job seekers able to take up a job immediately reached 10.4 percent on average last year, down 1.3 percentage points y/y. The ministry said that in 2006 registered unemployment rate posted a considerable drop when it hit the historic minimum and decreased below 10 percent for the first time since 1997.
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