From free crumpets to store discounts, UK grocers lure workers
With job vacancies in Britain close to a record high, retailers including Tesco Plc TSCO.L have begun offering better perks to workers, enticing them with free food...
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New forms of employment and policy repercussions
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides During the last decade, important structural changes occurred in the labour markets of advanced economies. These were reinforced by...
Families suffer from falling wages and lack of decent jobs
How politics has led to deterioration of the labour market since 2012 Has the Cyprus economy recovered from the financial crisis of 2012/2013 in...
Pissarides: Covid has irrevocably changed the labour market
By Yiannis Seitanidis The ‘new world’, as it emerges after the coronavirus pandemic, will be more complex than anyone could have imagined, according to Nobel prizewinner...
More job sectors opened to third-country students due to labour shortages
Amid reports businesses are struggling to find staff, the labour ministry said on Friday that third-country students who were in Cyprus on May 31 will...
Cyprus records the largest unemployment annual fall in the EU
Cyprus registered, once again, the largest annual decrease in unemployment for August 2018, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Unemployment in...
New €4m scheme to combat youth unemployment
By Andria Kades PLANS TO hire up to 1,000 young people with a €4 million budget will be announced by the end of this year,...
Unemployment down by 9.4% in March 2015
Registered unemployed persons in Cyprus reached 47,833 in March, marking an annual reduction of 9.4% compared with March 2014, figures released on Monday by the...
Economic sentiment falls in October
Economic sentiment fell in October by 0.5 points compared to the month before mainly on a deterioration of investor confidence in all economic sectors to...
Jobless rate for under 24s was over 40 per cent in second quarter
By Maria Gregoriou A TOTAL of 68,300 people were unemployed in Cyprus in the second quarter of the year, according to a labour force survey...
