Unemployment Drops in May
Ljubljana, 17 July (STA) - The registered unemployment rate in Slovenia hit 11.6% in May, down 0.2 percentage points over April in what was the fourth consecutive month of decline, the Statistics Office said on Tuesday.
The drop in the unemployment rate was due to a decrease in the number of
people registered as unemployed, while the number of people in paid
employment remained virtually unchanged, at 816,939 compared to 816,919 in
April, and dropped 1.5% year-on-year.
The trend of a slight decline
in unemployment in the first half of the year was detected also in previous
years, the Statistics Office added.
The male unemployment rate
dropped 0.3 percentage points to 11% and the female unemployment rate
inched 0.2 points lower to 12.2%.
The highest unemployment rate was
recorded in the eastern Pomursko region (17%) and the lowest in the
northwestern Gorenjsko region (8.5%).