Unemployment decreases in Gävleborg – Swedish Radio

Unemployment decreases in Gävleborg – Swedish Radio

Compared to a year ago, so is 1000 fewer people registered as unemployed in the county.

Unemployment in Gävleborg continues to drop, the new statistics from the Employment Service.

Although unemployment drops Gävleborg has continued the country’s highest unemployment rates. In September, the 10.8 percent, and That compares with the national average of 7.8 percent.

Gävleborg better than Empire

The trend to youth unemployment in Gävleborg reduces continues.

According to the Employment Service so fell in September, the number of unemployed young people aged 18-24 with nearly 500 compared with the same month in 2013, the vast majority are young people in Gävle.

– Pleasing to note is that youth unemployment continues to decline and that it actually decreased slightly more in our county than in the country, says Charlotte Humling, head of the Employment Service in Gävle.

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