In September this year, the unemployment rate in Ukraine decreased to 1,9% to 2% recorded in August, the State Statistics Committee.
According to the report, the number of registered unemployed in the period fell by 26.9 thousand to 542.7 thousand people unemployed. Of those receiving unemployment benefit 426.4 thousand people. The average amount of assistance is 651.84 hryvnia per month.
In September registered State Employment dwell 558,7 thousand Ukrainians. In this enterprise demand for new employees was 74.2 thousand people.
Meanwhile, experts believe that official statistics do not reflect the real situation on the labor market. According to the head of information-analytical center of Forex Club Nikolay Ivchenko, in spite of the officially registered number of unemployed at the end of August (569.6 thousand people or 2% of Ukrainian methodology), still almost 1 million 278 thousand people are also unemployed, but not officially registered at the labor exchange.
According to the information-analytical center Forex Club, the highest unemployment rate recorded in the Rivne region (13,1%), Ternopil (11,7%), Sumy region. (11,6%), Chernigov (11,5%), Cherkasy region. (11,1%), Zhitomir (11%), Vinnitsa (10,9%), Poltava (10.7%), Kirovograd region. (10,4%) and the Transcarpathian region (10.2%). The lowest unemployment rate in Kiev - 6,6%.
experts predict that by year-end unemployment in Ukraine (by ILO methodology) may reach 8.6% or 1 million 746 thousand people.
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