According to the Employment Agency, the unemployment rate fell to a record low of 4.9% in August, from 5.0% in the previous month. On an annual comparison basis, the unemployment rate fell by 2.6 percentage points, from 7.5% in August 2020. A total of 15,422 unemployed people found a job with the help of job centres in the month under review, while 19,522 people registered as unemployed.
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