According to the Employment Service Statistics, at the end of June 2010 the number of unemployed jobseekers registered at Employment and Economic Development Offices totalled 275,600, down 200 on the previous year. Compared with May, the number of unemployed jobseekers increased by 22,000.

The increase was attributable to the influx of newly-graduated young people into the labour market, characteristic of the summer season, and the ending of certain fixed-term employment contracts for the duration of the summer. The ending of fixed-term contracts represented an increase in unemployment particularly among women, up 19,800 from May.

The number of new vacancies reported to Employment and Economic Development Offices during June totalled 33,100, or 4,200 more than June in the previous year. In all, the number of unfilled vacancies at Employment and Economic Development Offices amounted to 58,000 in June, which is 6,900 more than a year ago.

At the end of June, unemployed jobseekers under 25 years of age numbered 39,400, representing a decrease by 1,100 from June a year ago and an increase by 8,100 since May. A total of 12,200 of those under 20 years of age were unemployed.

At the end of June, the number of long-term unemployed who had been unemployed without interruption for more than a year amounted to 54,900, up 14,000 on the previous year. Of those, persons unemployed without interruption for more than two years numbered 15,900, down 100 on the previous year.

The number of foreign citizens among unemployed jobseekers totalled 20,300, up 700 from June a year ago. Of these foreign unemployed jobseekers, EU/EEA citizens accounted for 4,100 at the end of June, up 200 from the year before.