Stagnant unemployment

The rise in unemployment stopped in the three-month period of February to April: The unemployment rate was 11.8 percent, the same as in January-March – reported the Central Statistical Office on Thursday.

The number of the unemployed was 497 thousand, 85 thousand more, than a year earlier, but compared to the previous 3 months their number has not shown growth. The 11.8  percent unemployment rate was 1.9 percentage points higher, than in the same period of the previous year. The male unemployment increased by 2.4, female unemployment by 1.3 percentage points – reports Világgazdaság Online, after KSH.