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With a three-week delay, but detailed Hungarian unemployment data was released, according to a document dated April 14, 2020, now posted on the website of the National Employment Service (NES). In March, employers announced a collective layoff of 1,098 people. after 363 in the previous month. This indicates that the wave of reduction began immediately after the emergency was declared.
Layoffs are in hotel, restaurant, mobile catering, appliance manufacturing, metallurgy, other information technology services, asset management (tenure), sports equipment manufacturing, wood panel manufacturing, forestry, other forestry activities , Outerwear production and other hotel sectors mainly affected Budapest, as well as Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok and Szabolcs Szatmár-Bereg counties.
Previously it was known that 281 thousand unemployed registered in the month, now we also know that 151.2 thousand job applicants were entitled to cash benefits, of which 54.4 percent were in job search benefits and 45.6% were social workers . He received support. the Almost half of job applicants (46.2%) received no financial support.
The number of permanently registered job applicants for more than one year can be increased by 3.7% compared to the number of employees from the previous year. It had a quota of 72.6 thousand permanent job applicants in March 2020, representing 25.6% of all job applicants. On the closing day of the month under review, there were 38.2 thousand job applicants under the age of 25, and the number of people 55 and older was 70.1 thousand. The first represented 13.6% and the second 24.9% of job applicants.
According to the NES analysis, “looking at the monthly number of job applicants, there has been a significant downward trend in the past 10 years, which is likely to break the current global health and economic emergency.”
In March, a total of 59.4 thousand job applicants requested registration with the competent district / district office, of which those that were registered for the first time represented 7.0%. the The number of new entrants increased by 7.8% compared to the same period last year.
According to the Portfolio, in mid-April there were already 330,000 unemployed in the country, which means that unemployment is on the rise.
We have previously written that researchers were also missing detailed unemployment data:
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