Analytics, Employment, Estonia, Financial Services, Insurance, Labour-market

The rate was bigger by 0.1 percentage point than at the end of January.

The rate of registered unemployment was highest as usual in East-Viru County at 11.9% and Valga County at 9.7%, and lowest in the Harju and Tartu counties at respectively 3.6% and 3.8%.

Skilled workers and artificers made up the biggest part of the registered jobless who had previously worked, both accounting for 20%, while manual workers accounted for 19% and service and sales personnel for 17%.

New job offers added to the list of offerings of the Unemployment Insurance Fund numbered 3,700, a bigger number than in January. The number of jobs available via the fund, 6,900, was 14% bigger than in January and 23% bigger than in February 2014.

Recipients of the unemployment insurance benefit numbered 11,900 in February, making up 33% of the registered jobless. The average benefit per calendar month was 399 euros and the sum total disbursed was roughly 4.2 million euros. The basic unemployment allowance of 137 euros a month was paid to 8,500 persons, 23% of the total number of registered jobless.

The redundancy benefit was paid to 676 people in February and the average size of the benefit awarded in that month was 1,718 euros. The sum total paid out in redundancy benefits was more than 1.2 million euros.

The benefit in case of insolvency of the employer was awarded to 71 persons. The average size of the benefit was 1,770 euros and overall more than 797,000 euros was disbursed under that item.