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  1. Greece's labour market is austerity's biggest casualty

    Agora

    unemployed and an unemployment rate of 28% even if the pace of job losses slows down. The domestic debate... was growing at an annual rate of 6% and banks were calling customers to sweet-talk them into accepting their “low rate” credit cards and loans. With domestic disposable incomes reduced on average by 25

    8%

  2. Unemployment creeps up to 27.6 pct in July; little tourism boost evident
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in July edged marginally higher to 27.6 percent from 27.5... of people that dropped out of the labour force has pushed the rate marginally higher. According to the data from ELSTAT, even in non-seasonally adjusted terms the rate of unemployment remained flat

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  3. Unemployment at new high of 28 pct in Nov, jobless up by 169 pct in four years

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The seasonally adjusted jobless rate continued heading north, reaching 28 percent in November from... (ELSTAT). The November rate now holds the new high. The rate of decrease in the number of employed... in the market. Unemployment remains more prominent in the female population with a rate of 32.2

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  4. Greek PMI falls to 49.4 in June, lowest since November 2013

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    ticked up to a 10-month high, but factory gate prices continued to fall. The rate of growth... the output growth was sustained in June mainly through progress on outstanding business, the rate of drop... decline in June after marginal gains in each of the preceding two months. In addition, the rate of job

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  5. Seasonal jobs bring down Q2 unemployment to 26.6 pct but long-term jobless rising
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The non-seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate posted a drop both year on year (YoY) and quarter... in Q2 2013, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). The Q2 unemployment rate... the unemployment rate slightly slipped to 27 percent in June from 27.1 percent in May. All monthly

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  6. Greece is least socially just country in EU, report indicates
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    Society

    is at the bottom ranking with a youth unemployment rate of nearly 60 percent, a rapid increase... The report highlights obvious factors such as the high unemployment rate, including among young Greeks, but also long-term joblessness (Greece has the highest rate in the EU) and the in-job poverty

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  7. Greek children lead way in languages at primary school level
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    Society

    on health and society. The report shows that while the crude death rate for children under 14 in Greece... fatality rate for the 20–24 age group contributing to the country’s position. The statistics also show...) in the EU. Greece’s infant mortality rate is also among the lowest in Europe, standing at 2.9 in 2012, down

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  8. Unemployment edges up for second consecutive quarter in Q1, reaches 26.6 pct
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The non-seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate continued heading north for the second successive... that unemployment hovered between 25.6 and 25.7 percent in Q1 2015. Compared to the rate of 27.8 percent... percent to 3.5 million. The breakdown of unemployment by gender showed the male jobless rate fell by 1.5

    8%

  9. Newsletter 43 - 18/09/2015

    Newsletters

    to the imposition of a 23 percent VAT rate on tuition fees at private schools and tuition centres, a measure voted in the Greek Parliament on August 13 to counterbalance the lowering of the VAT rate... and the reinstatement of the waiver on Greek government securities. Q2 unemployment rate drops The non

    8%

  10. Greece near top of EU charts for proportion of population over 65 and 80
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    Society

    . Greece, along with Italy, now has the third lowest birth rate in the EU after Germany and Portugal... people (23.1 percent) over 65 in Greece in 2013, the seventh highest rate in the European Union (after... of the population, where the at risk of poverty or social exclusion rate is 38.9 percent, over-65s in Greece

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