Kazakhstan, Astana, Oct. 14 / Trend , K.Konirova/
In the third quarter, employed people in Kazakhstan numbered 8 million, the Kazakh Statistics Agency told Trend .
The agency reported that the hired employees numbered 5.3 million people, unemployed 533,700 people with an unemployment rate of 6.3 percent.
In the past quarter, 8 million people were employed and the hired people of them amounted to 66.2 percent. The number of unemployed is equal to 532,000people with an unemployment rate of 6.3 percent," the agency reported.
As for late September, the employment agencies of the Kazakh Ministry of Labor and Social Protection registered 84,100 people. The share of registered unemployed amounted to 1 percent of the economically active population, which is by 0.3 percent points more than the same period last year. According to the statistics agency, the level of hidden unemployment comprised 0.7 percent of the economically active population in September 2009.
According to the International Labor Organization, people, having no jobs, searching jobs actively and ready to set down to work, are classified as unemployed. Hidden unemployment (involuntary part-time employment) shows how many workers are employed in a shorter working week or part-time, and is on administrative leave without payment or with partial payment.
The level of hidden unemployment is the share of those who are partially employed and forced to be on holidays among the economically active population, measured in percentage.