Financial Tribune - A total of 840,944 people have filed for unemployment benefits by June 8th, of whom 703,430 were found eligible, says, an official with the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare. The lions share of job losses following the outbreak of coronavirus occurred in the month ending March 19 with 372,891; unemployment payments ...

Financial Tribune - A total of 12,860 billion rials ($75 million) have been deposited into the Social Security Organizations Unemployment Insurance Fund, according to the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare. The funding came from the 1 billion coronavirus relief package from the National Development Fund of Iran, Mehr News Agency ...

Financial Tribune - The overall unemployment rate in Iran, the proportion of total jobless population of ages 10 years and above, stood at 10.8% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21), indicating a 1.3% decrease year-on-year, according to the latest report of the Statistical Center of Iran. Citing the SCI data, the Persian ...

Financial Tribune - Irans long-term unemployed population reached 37.8% of the total number of jobless in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2019). The long-term unemployment rate, which is the share of the labor force that has been without work for more than a year while actively looking for a job, was the highest for those between 25 and 29 ...

ISNA The second job exhibition of Iran known as Iran Jobex is due to be held April 21-24, 2019 in Tehran International Exhibition Center. The exhibition is aimed at connecting jobseekers and employers. The exhibition shouldnt just include employers and labor force. Trainer entities such as Technical and Vocational Training Organization should also ...

Al-Monitor | Maysam Bizaer: With a population of over81 million, Iran is the second-most populous country in the region and ranks 18th in the world. As the results of the countrys latest census in March 2017 indicate, the average age in Iran is 31.1, whilepublished figuresshow that half of Iranians are under the age of 30. Following the post-revolutionary ...

Financial Tribune- Last April President Hassan Rouhani said his government would strive to reduce the galloping inflation rate to single digits. That promise was delivered in June. Next in line was joblessness and how to tackle the dole queues. Data from the Statistical Center of Iran put the unemployment rate in summer at 12.7%. The figure was ...

Bourse and Bazaar|Pourya Darnihamedani: Unemployment is a major concern for both labor force participants and for policymakers, especially during periods of economic downturn. Unemployment has been shown to have long-term negative effects on an individual's happiness, even after he or she finds employment. Furthermore, the resultant decrease in tax ...

Irans Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says 42% of Iranian university graduates are jobless. Speaking on the sidelines of a cultural ceremony in the northern city of Shahroud, Larijani described inflation and unemployment as two major problems facing Iranian people. He said unemployment rate among young graduates, which has been recently announced ...

Tehran, Jan 5, IRNA Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsajani in Tehran on Monday suggested bank cash to be spent on campaign against unemployment. He made the remarks in a meeting with Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, Ali Rabiee. Ayatollah Rafsanjani said if the bank cash is spent properly and in favor ...

[caption id="attachment_79960" align="alignright" width="241"] Irans Minister of Labor, Cooperatives and Welfare Ali Rabiei speaks to reporters in Tehran on January 26, 2014.[/caption] TEHRAN, Aug. 09 (MNA) Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare predicts employment rate for the current year to be 2.5 per cent, a positive rate after so ...

Irans National Census Centre has announced that unemployment among university and college graduates is on the rise. The Shargh daily reports that Adel Azar, the head of the National Census Centre, said the unemployment rate among people with a bachelors degree rose from 14.6 percent to 20.1 percent from 2005 to 2013. He reported that in recent ...