The number of people in employment increased by 774 thousand compared to the time when the first cabinet of Viktor Orban was formed in 2010, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement released on Kormany.hu.
According to the statement, Minister of Finance Mihaly Varga said, - commenting on the latest jobs data released by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) - that the bulk of growth was registered in the public sector, where the number of new jobs was up by 625 thousand in the same period.
The number of people in employment has edged close to 4.5 million, and concurrently the number of employees in public work schemes and those working abroad has declined. The unemployment rate continued to be 3.6 percent, which figure places Hungary as third in the EU ranking, right behind Germany and the Czech Republic, he said.
