376,000 people were looking for jobs in Hungary in June

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2020. 07. 21. 11:15

In June, there were 376 thousand jobseekers in Hungary, which is an increase of almost 130 thousand compared to the same period of the previous year. Nearly 176 thousand people did not receive any cash benefits – portfolio.hu wrote.

In June 2020, there were 376,300 jobseekers in the register of the National Employment Service, which is an increase of almost 130,000, compared to the same period of the previous year, so compared to June 2019, the number of jobseekers increased by 51.6 percent. Looking at the monthly numbers of jobseekers, there has been a significant downward trend over the last 10 years, which the current global health and economic emergency has broken as predicted. Unemployment was last higher in 2016. (portfolio.hu)