Ulaanbaatar
Registered unemployed decreased by 15.1 percent
Society
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ In June 2020, Labour agencies in
aimags and the Capital registered 5.6 thousand new unemployed, 2.2 thousand
persons from the unemployment register hired on a new job, and 3.6 thousand
persons removed from the unemployment register due to inactive job seeking. In
Ulaanbaatar, 1.7 thousand persons newly registered in Labour agencies in aimags
and the Capital, and 611 persons from the unemployment register were hired in
June 2020.
Compared to the same period of the previous year, newly
registered unemployed decreased by 3.5 thousand persons (38.3%), the number of
persons hired on a new job decreased by 1.3 thousand persons (36.3%), and the
number of persons removed from the unemployment register due to inactive job
seeking decreased by 2.5 thousand persons (40.4%).
At the end of June 2020, the number of registered job
seekers reached 30.3 thousand, of which 19.6 thousand (64.5%) were registered
as unemployed and the remaining 10.7 thousand (35.5%) were employed but looking
for a new job.
Registered unemployed decreased by 3.5 thousand (15.1%) from
the same period of the previous year and by 226 (1.1%) from the previous month.
Out of the total registered unemployed, 10.0 thousand or 51.1% were women.
Source: National Statistics Office
