Unemployment has gone down in 2015. The unemployment rate landed at 6.9%, this is 1.2% lower than a year earlier. However, long term unemployment stayed at a high level (48.5% of all unemployed). Wages increased, both average gross and net earnings were higher by the same extent, 3.5% than in the first half of 2014. Net earnings were 3.7% higher at enterprises and 2.9% and 2.2% more than a year earlier in the public sector and at non-profit organisations.
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