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Employment and unemployment (provisional estimates) - April 2023
In April 2023 the number of employed people grew, while both unemployed and inactive persons decreased. On a monthly basis, the increase of employment (+0.2%, +48 thousand) concerned women, youngest people and those aged 50 and over, while a decline was registered for men and middle age groups. Overall, the employment rate rose to 61.0%. In the last month, the decline of unemployed persons (-0.7%, -14 thousand) involved women and people in the 15-24 and 35-49 age groups. The unemployment rate declined to 7.8% (-0.1 p.p.), the youth rate to 20.4% (-1.4 p.p.). In April the drop in the number of inactive people aged 15 ... (full story)