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Bulgarian unemployment marks drop in third quarter of 2016

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In the third quarter of the year unemployed people in Bulgaria are 229,000, and the unemployment rate is 7%, according to the NSI. On an annual basis the number of unemployed decreased by 50.3 thousand people and the unemployment rate - by 1.3 percent. Of all unemployed 14.2% have higher education, 50.3% have high school education and 35.5% are with primary or lower education.



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