UNEMPLOYMENT LEVEL REDUCES BY 3% IN PAST SEVEN YEARS IN ARMENIA

Noyan Tapan
Dec 18 2007

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 18, NOYAN TAPAN. Unemployment has reduced by 3%
in the past seven years in Armenia amounting to 6.9%. According to
Sona Haroutiunian, the Head of the State Employment Service agency of
the RA Ministry of Labor and Social Issues, at present the number of
people looking for a job in Armenia is 94 thousand and the number of
unemployed 75 thousand. She said this at the December 18 conference
under the title Labor Market in Armenia: Tendencies and Challenges.

S. Haroutiunian said that registered people looking for a job mainly
belong to 45-50 age group. According to her, the number of unemployed
women remains high, nearly 70% of the total number. Besides, the
number of young men being registered has considerably grown, reaching
from 1-2% to 21%. According to S. Haroutiunian’s observation, this
is conditioned by the fact that programs aimed at employment of a
larger number of young people are implemented in the recent years.

According to the estimation of the Head of the Agency, there is
non-correspondence of supply and demand on Armenia’s labor market in
the respect of territories, gender, age, professional abilities. In
difference to the regions, labor market is comparatively developed
in Armenia. 80% vacancies in Yerevan are workers’ specialities and
in the regions mainly specialities of teachers, doctors, accountants,
and lawyers.