Poland’s unemployment rate drops to 11.5%

The registered unemployment rate in Poland declined by 0.2 percentage points in September and amounted to 11.5 percent, according to an estimate published by Poland’s Ministry of Labor and Social Policy on Tuesday. September is the eight consecutive month of the rate’s decline. Since the beginning of this year, the number of unemployed persons has dropped by 437,000. Employers submitted 115,000 job offers to labor offices in September, 23 percent more than in August and 57 percent more then in September 2013. This was the best result since 2001, when the ministry started collecting such data.