Number of Unemployed Drops in 1999

Ljubljana, 1 February - UNEMPLOYMENT/1999/DISABLED
Last year 62,350 unemployed found jobs, up 12.4 percent from a year earlier, which put the number of registered job seekers at 114,348 at the end of December, or 9.7 percent below the 1998 figure. The registered unemployment rate stood at 13 percent in November 1999, down 1.5 percent from November 1998.