Poland Unemployment Rate at 11.5%

Polish jobless rate continued its downward trend to 11.5 percent in September of 2014 from 11.7 percent in August, below market expectations.
Joana Taborda | joana.taborda@tradingeconomics.com
10/23/2014 10:49:23 AM
Unemployment decreased to 1.821 million people in September from 2.083 million a year earlier and 1.853 million in August. Meanwhile, 242 thousand people were registered as new unemployed (+32.8 percent compared with the previous month) while 183 thousand were reentrants to unemployment rolls (+23.8 percent over August). 

In September of 2014, employment in the enterprise sector increased 1.2 percent over a year earlier to 5776 thousand people. The highest job gains occurred in the retail sector (+3.5 percent yoy), information and communication sector (+3.4 percent) and manufacturing (+ 2.4 percent). On a monthly basis, employment barely rose by 0.1 percent. 

Poland Unemployment Rate at 11.5%