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Job creation slightly drops in Vietnam in 6 months
HANOI, June 22, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – Vietnam has so far this year created
over 782,000 jobs, down 0.4 percent against the same period last year,
according to its Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs on Friday.
Specifically, over 725,000 Vietnamese people found jobs in Vietnam in the
six-month period, down 1.4 percent, and some 57,000 others went abroad to
work as guest workers, up 18.3 percent.
Meanwhile, the rate of employees undergoing full training stood at 57.6
percent.
Vietnams urban unemployment rate stood at 3.13 percent in the first
quarter of this year, and it is estimated to be below 4 percent in the first
half of this year, according to the countrys General Statistics Office.
Vietnam has some 200,000 university graduates who are unemployed now, its
Ministry of Education and Training said early this month. The country
currently has over 5 million employees aged 60 or less with university
degree.
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