Every month the unemployment rate in Greece reaches a new high. According to official statistics of Greece (ELSTAT) the unemployment rate already exceeded the level of 1 million at the end of December 2011, leaving more than 20 % of the population without a job. The youth unemployment has increased by 12 % compared to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’
9 Apr
Estonia is fifth for unemployment in EU
The average unemployment in the European Union (EU) is 7.9 pct according to Eurostat information, and the unemployment is highest in Spain, Ireland and all three Baltic countries (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia). In Spain the unemployment was 15.5 pct, Latvia 14.4 pct, Lithuania 13.7 pct, Ireland 10 pct and in Estonia 9.9 pct. The largest [...]
9 Jun
Unemployment in Slovakia dropped to an all-time low
Slovakiais struggling with its unemployment for many years and is taking a lot of money from the state budget. It is caused due to a very high birth rate of the Slovak Roma population. It is obvious mainly in the reagion of east of Slovakia, which is a very poor region, where the Romas are [...]
2 Jun
Big entrepreneur misplaced the headquarter
One of the biggest insurance company is the Gothaer. Annually this company earns about 4 Milliarden Euro and has about 3.5 Million people insured. This company was found in Gotha (east Germany) and after the second world war the headquarter moved to Göttingen, my hometown, in the centre of Germany. For Göttingen and as well [...]
25 Apr
EU employment reaches new high / European youth misses out on jobs boom
I found articles about how the employment in Europe has risen and that still more and more new jobs have been created- mostly in service sector ( while agriculture has experienced a steady decrease). The most markedly fall of unemployment have been recorded in Poland, but there was a drop also in new member states as well as [...]
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