Working-age employees opt out of jobs force, as unemployment falls and so do numbers in work

Working-age employees opt out of jobs force, as unemployment falls and so do numbers in work

Hunter unemployment hits lowest this year. Job market shows complexities with falling employment and rising job ads.

Fewer people are working in Hungary now than at any time in the past two years

The jobless rate in Hungary for people between the ages of 15 and 74 stood at 4.3% in May, data released by the Central Statistics Office (KSH) on Friday show. In absolute terms, there were 210,000 unemployed. The number of employed reached 4,669,000. For the period March-May, the average number of employed reached 4,673,000, 38,000 fewer than in the same period a year earlier. The number of people employed on the primary market stood at 4,501,0…