Polish unemployment edges up to 5.7% in November: gov't

Poland’s unemployment rate inched up to 5.7 percent in November, from 5.6 percent in October, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy has said.

The Warsaw headquarters of the Polish Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.

Photo: Marcin Dławichowski/Polish Radio

There were around 875,300 people without jobs across the nation at the end of November, up by 7,900 from a month earlier, according to the government.

Stopa bezrobocia rejestrowanego w listopadzie wyniosła 5,7 proc. wobec 5,6 proc. miesiąc wcześniej - poinformowało MRPiPS. Ekonomiści ankietowani przez PAP Biznes oczekiwali, że w listopadzie stopa bezrobocia w Polsce wzrosła do 5,7 proc.https://t.co/NdQIjWqQf4 pic.twitter.com/qUMJyF3FZ0

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The state-run Statistics Poland agency (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate had held steady at 5.6 percent in October, unchanged from September.

Meanwhile, the European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated this month that unemployment in Poland stood at 3.2 percent in October and was among the lowest in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl