{"id":102198,"date":"2022-02-14T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T14:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=102198"},"modified":"2022-02-14T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T14:04:18","slug":"unemployment-rate-in-estonia-drops-by-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/unemployment-rate-in-estonia-drops-by-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment rate in Estonia drops by 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">According to <span class=\"s1\">data from the Unemployment Insurance Fund,<\/span> the current number of unemployed individuals in Estonia as of January 31 was 45,168. This is 11,168 or 19.8 per cent less than January 2021.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Unemployment fell the most in Hiiumaa with a 35.9 per cent reduction, followed by <span class=\"s1\">P\u00e4rnumaa with 25.6 per cent, and Ida-Virumaa with 24.6 per cent. The slowest decreases were seen in Valgamaa and Saaremaa with 12.6 per cent&nbsp;and 11.2 per cent reductions, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">The figures show a positive improvement in the unemployment rate across the whole country in the past year. This is also a trend that seems to be continuing, with a 2.4 per cent reduction in those registered as unemployed compared to December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">As of January, the highest rates of unemployment were in Ida-Virumaa with 10.8 per cent, Viljandimaa with 9.1 per cent and P\u00f5lvamaa with 8.4 per cent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s2\">Source <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.err.ee\/1608496946\/unemployment-drops-20-percent-on-year-in-january\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ERR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to data from the Unemployment Insurance Fund, the current number of unemployed individuals in Estonia as of January &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":102199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[13048,13582,13760,13761,14079,14080,14081,14082],"class_list":["post-102198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","tag-jobs-in-estonia","tag-hiiumaa-2","tag-parnumaa-2","tag-harjumaa-2","tag-unemployment-estonia","tag-unemployment-insurance-fund","tag-unemployment-rates-estonia","tag-estonia-jobs"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102206,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102198\/revisions\/102206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}