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Unemployment rate up to 5.4 pct in Nov.

The Romanian unemployment rate recorded nationwide at end-Nov. was of 5.4 percent, up 0.23 percent from Oct. and posting a 0.34 percent rise on Nov. 2011, the National Employment Agency announced.

There were as many as 476,321 jobless registered in the county employment agencies' records at the end of Nov., by 20,173 persons more than at the end of the prior month, the Agency figures show.


Men's joblessness rate rose to 5.72 percent in Nov. up from 5.42 percent in Oct., while women's joblessness rate was up to 5.03 percent from 4. 89 percent.


When looking at the unemployment structure by age brackets in Nov., 89.002 out-of-work people are aged below 25, while 36,301 unemployed are aged between 25 and 30 years old, 106,974 unemployed are aged between 31 and 40 years old, 122,522 are aged between 41 and 50 years old, 58,034 are aged between 51 and 55 years old and 63,488 unemployed are aged over 55.