According to the latest monthly report for September, the unemployment rate was 19% lower than last month. In year-on-year comparisons, the number of unemployed people in the age group of 20 to 24 decreased the most, by almost 30%, which brought its share of the total number of unemployed people in the country below 10%. Another indicator for the improvement of the domestic labour market situation compared to last year is the fact that as many as 44% more vacancies were registered in September.
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