Tag: unemployment

Youth unemployment remains a problem that North Macedonia must work hard to solve, notes the latest Report of the EC on North Macedonia's EU accession progress. The youth and meeting the needs of this group remainс a challenge that has to be addressed and solved. The report stresses the problems that North Macedonia has to solve, as well as...

The new Fiscal Strategy for the period 2022-2024, with projections until 2026, is carrying strongly optimistic forecast about the development of the economy of North Macedonia. The economic growth rates are planned to above 5% and the unemployment rate at only 8.6%. Also, the average salary is planned to grow with an average rate of around 4%, the gross...

The women initiative of Shuto Orizari is marking the International Romany day by alarming about the obstacles that Romany women face with in our country. "We can't even manage to count the number of obstacles, but through the years it is clear that the biggest among those are the unemployment and the lack of medical services concerning the health...

33 Phds have been reported as unemployed in the Employment Agency, shows the statistics for October. This is the highest number of unemployed persons holding this rank. Apart from that, there are unemployed 866 masters including 11.000 persons with high education. The highest numbers go to masters of legal matters, masters of economic sciences, masters of pharmacy, pasters of...

The rate of youth unemployment in Macedonia is 52.9%, which ranks the country third on the world list, says the study "Unemployment of Young People in Macedonia" conducted by the "Friedrich Ebert" Foundation this year. The research has shown that 60% of young people above the age of 18, believe that finding work in the country will be difficult. "Personal and political connections...

Economic growth in Macedonia is expected to slow down and reach only 2% in 2016 due to the decline in investments, according to the latest Economic Report of the World Bank for Southeast Europe, which was presented in Skopje today. “For the first time in six years, investments have had a negative contribution to the economic growth, as opposed to...

For the second quarter of the year, according to the State Statistical Office, the unemployment rate is at 24%. The number of the active population is 948,376 people, of which 720,674 are employed and 227,702 are unemployed. In the first quarter of this year, the unemployment rate dropped by 0.5%.

Interim Minister of Labour and Social Policy Frosina Tashevska - Remenski in an interview with the civil association "Civil" raised the question of how real is the rate unemployment, and has unemployment really decreased, as there is a difference in the numbers in the state institutions. “We face a big dilemma in terms of numbers, especially considering that the Fund...

In an interview with TV “Sitel”, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski tonight announced the construction of a new student dormitory in Skopje, he also announced that Macedonia has the lowest unemployment rate in its history at 26.8 percent and blamed the opposition of undermining negotiations in order to postpone elections which are scheduled for April next year. The Prime Minister, who...

According to the data of the State Statistical Office, in the II quarter of 2015, the labour force in the Republic of Macedonia is at 956 174 persons, of which 699 578 are employed, while 256 596 are unemployed. The activity rate in this period was 57%, the employment rate is 41.7 percent, while the unemployment rate is 26.8 percent.  

The unemployment rate in the first quarter this year in Macedonia is 27.3 percent, according to the State Statistical Office. 262,140 people are unemployed and 697,248 people are employed. Most of the unemployed in the first quarter were men, i.e. 62.8 percent of the total active population in the country, while 37.2 percent were women. By age, most unemployed, 166,414 are...

Government measures to reduce unemployment and to support recruitment official records, were today presented to businessmen from Gostivar region. The Forum was organized by the Employment Agency in cooperation with the Ministry of Transport and Communications, Municipality of Gostivar and UNDP. In Gostivar, much of SMEs use the benefits of employment measures. Employers say that this support is welcome to...