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Bulgarians not looking for a job exceed 300,000: Trend survey

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The number of Bulgarians of working age who neither study nor work amounts to nearly 330,000, data of the latest survey of Trend Research Center show. These people do not pay social security contributions and are not registered at the Employment Agency, the survey further reads. 72% of them do not have personal income. Highest number of discouraged Bulgarians is registered in the villages. 80% of them have been unemployed for over one year and 12% of these people were never employed.




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