Unemployment

UN: Coronavirus threatens livelihoods of more than 1.5 billion workers

The International Labor Organization says that the lives of about 1.6 billion people worldwide are at risk from the coronavirus epidemic.

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Kermanshah province has the highest unemployment rate in Iran

Kermanshah province, with an unemployment rate of 16.2 percent, has the highest unemployment rate among the provinces of the country, and there are about 155,000…

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Unemployment of more than 30 percent of university graduates in Iran

The commander of the Armed Forces General Staff's skills training center said: "We have a huge national challenge in the country called unemployment...

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Unemployment rate for Iranian university graduates is “twice that of illiterates”

A Labor Ministry official reported that the unemployment rate among Iranian university graduates is twice that of the illiterate. To…

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Formal reduction of unemployment and change in the basis of calculation

The Statistics Center's announcement of a 1.8 percent drop in the unemployment rate in the summer of 2019 raised doubts among many media outlets and experts. The Center…

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30% of Iranian youth neither work nor study

The Center for Statistics and Strategic Information of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare published the results of the NEET index assessment. The index…

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The government is concerned about the declining birth rate, while the youth are concerned about unemployment and poverty.

Official statistics in Iran indicate a decline in the youth population. Despite pressure from officials and Ayatollah Khamenei's emphasis on increasing...

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42% of the unemployed in Iran are university graduates; why this figure is a disaster

A worrying issue in Iran is the unemployment of university graduates. The difference between the unemployment of these people and those without a university education is the rate of…

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