Over 600,000 workers find jobs in five months
Approximately 613,800 people found employment in the first five months of 2016, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
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Of the total, the number of job seekers who were hired domestically amounted to 573,000, an annual decrease of 4%. However, it still helped cut the unemployment rate to 2.23% in the first quarter.
Vietnam’s workforce is estimate to reach 54.47 million in the second quarter, accounting for 76% of the country’s above 15 year-old population.
