In the May–July period, the average number of employed people was 4.68 million, down 30,000 from a year earlier. Male employment fell by 24,000 to 2.48 million, while female employment was essentially unchanged at 2.2 million.
The number of people working in the domestic primary labor market declined by 41,000 to 4.51 million. Public workers totaled 69,000, while 105,000 Hungarians were employed abroad.
The employment rate for 15–64 year-olds was stable at 75.3%, with rates of 79.1% for men and 71.4% for women.
Unemployment during May–July averaged 212,000, for a rate of 4.3% — unchanged from a year earlier. Men accounted for 113,000 of the unemployed and women 100,000. The average job search lasted 11.5 months; 42.5% of unemployed had been seeking work for less than three months, while 29.2% had been without work for at least a year.
According to the National Employment Service, the number of registered job seekers at the end of July fell by 1.4% year-on-year to 221,000.
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