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UNEMPLOYMENT LEVEL DROPS TO 7.2 PERCENT

 
YEREVAN, JANUARY 16, ARMENPRESS: By the end of 2006 December unemployment level in Armenia dropped to 7.2 percent from 7.7 percent 12 months before. However, it rose in some provinces, particularly in the southernmost Syunik and Lori in the northeast.
Sona Harutunian, head of the National Employment Service, an affiliation of the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry, said 102,000 jobless people were registered at local employment centers by December 31, 2006 and 84,000 had the unemployed status which means they were eligible to unemployment benefits.
She said last year employment centers across the country found jobs for 8,268 people and another 10,250 were offered temporary jobs.
Mrs. Harutunian said though the unemployment level dropped, the share of young men and women seeking jobs increased 26 percent, but she explained it by a legislative change that revoked a previously effective provision which gave the unemployed status only to people with at least 12 month job record.
Almost half of people who found jobs last year were in the capital city Yerevan. Mrs. Harutunian said there were vacancies for workers in Yerevan remaining unfilled for months. In regions there is a demand fro doctors and school teachers.
The unemployment allowance has risen from 3,900 drams in 2003 to 12,000 Drams.

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