unemployment

It was revealed on Thursday that Greek unemployment fell to 20.8 percent in December -- a more-than-two-percent decline year-on-year. ELSTAT, the Greek statistics body, issued new data which showed joblessness had fallen both in annual and quarterly terms. In December there...

  Greece had the dubious distinction of continuing to top the eurozone's unemployment rate table on Thursday. Eurostat reported that the eurozone average was 8.6 percent but that Greece still had an unemployment rate of 20.9 percent as of November 2017. However,...

Greece recorded the biggest percentage decline in the unemployment rate among EU countries in October 2017, falling to 20.7 percent of the workforce from 23.3 pct in October 2016, Eurostat said on Wednesday. However, in a report released in Brussels,...

Registered unemployment climbed by 4.88 pct in November compared to October, according to the Greek Employment Manpower Organization (OAED) on Wednesday, adding 40,261 people to the ranks of the unemployed. Overall, November's registered unemployed came to 864,778 in November, compared...

It is estimated that at least 420,000 Greeks; half of which hold university degrees, left their homeland since the onset of the economic crisis in 2010, according to a 2017 Bank of Greece study. Naturally, most of them communicate with their friends...

Greece’s unemployment rate fell to 20.2% in July-to-September, from 21.1% in the second quarter, data from the country’s statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday. About 75.6% of Greece’s 970,000 jobless are long-term unemployed, meaning they have been out of work...

The unemployment rate in Greece fell to 20.6 pct of the workforce in August, from 20.9 pct in July, Eurostat said on Thursday. In a report released here, the EU executive's statistics agency said that Greece and Cyprus recorded...

Registered unemployment grew 3.07% in October from September; totaling 824,517 people, the Workforce Employment Organisation (OAED) announced on Monday. In its monthly report, OAED said that 59.83% of registered unemployed were out of work for more than 12 months and...

At its latest economic forecast for Greece, the European Commission revised its estimate for the country's 2017 economic growth from 1.8% to 1.6%. This is the third consecutive downwards revision of Greece's growth estimate from 2.7% early this year, to...

Unemployment in Greece is more than double the EU average and about one-third of the country's workforce earn an average of 376 euros per month, Spiegel magazine says. The report on the online version of the German magazine calls Greece's...