May 15 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria’s jobless rate fell by 0.3 percentage points month-on-month to 5.6% in April, the government's Employment Agency said on Wednesday.
Compared to April 2018, Bulgaria’s jobless rate was 0.8 pp lower, the Employment Agency said in a statement.
A total of 194,603 people were registered as unemployed with labour offices in April, of which 20,868 newly-registered during the month.
The number of people who found a job in the fourth month of the year totalled 22,323.
There were 23,285 registered job vacancies in April. The highest share of vacancies was registered in the hotels and restaurants sector, 38.3% of the total.