Unemployment rate at 12.1% in January

Registered unemployment rate stood at 12.1 percent in January, an increase by 0.6 percentage point month-on-month, but was 1.8 pp lower than in January 2014, according to the the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy. Employers submitted 71,000 job offers to labor offices in January, which is 29 percent more than in December 2014. The number of the registered unemployed stood at 1.919 million, which is 341,000 less than in January 2013, but 94,000 more than in December 2014.