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.