570,000 of unemployed erased from statistics in 2010. Nobody knows what happened to them
Over half a million unemployed were removed from unemployment
statistics in 2010 because they did not renew their job
applications with the employment agencies, so they are no longer
recorded in the official statistics. As a result, at least a
further 570,000 jobless people are added to the 630,000 unemployed
currently receiving benefits. The former are no longer included in
statistics because they do not go to unemployment offices on a
regular basis.
ZF for the first time clears up the mystery of the only 7%
unemployment in Romania, considering that there are 4.5-5 million
employees amid a working-age population of 10 million, so there are
5 million people able to work who are not recorded in any
statistics. Therefore, the number of people who do not have a job
is in fact much higher, if you add the several hundred thousand
unemployed who lose this status every year because they no longer
stamp their unemployment records, but do not find a job,
either.
In order to be registered as unemployed, any Romanian who loses
their job needs to go to the employment agency on a monthly basis
to fill out papers and stamp their unemployment record.