Unemployment in Poland to be lowest since pandemic’s beginning
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The unemployment rate at the end of July was 5.8 percent and the number of unemployed was 974,900 – such data were presented by the Central Statistical Office (GUS) in the latest statistical bulletin. This is slightly better data than the ministry then headed by Jarosław Gowin announced at the beginning of August. It was then reported that in July there were 975,900 unemployed, which is 1,000 more than it actually turned out.
The number of unemployed is the lowest since April 2020, when there were 965,800. Compared to July 2019, there are 106,500 more jobless people and this is the present cost of the pandemic on the labor market.
"The labor market is recovering from pandemic losses, and the negative effects of the expiration of financial shields are not visible," Bank Pekao analysts commented on Twitter.
The lowest registered unemployment rate was recorded in the Wielkopolskie voivodeship (3.5 percent), and the highest in Warmińsko-Mazurskie (8.9 percent).
