The official unemployment rate in Moscow has almost tripled since the beginning of 2021, from 1.32% as of January 1, 2021 to 0.46% as of January 16, 2022. This is the lowest rate since May 2020. In October 2020 The city marked the peak of unemployment – 3.03%, said Vladimir Yefimov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Economic Policy and Property and Land Relations.
In Moscow there are 33.6 thousand officially registered unemployed citizens. At the same time, the Moscow economy has a large margin of safety, and therefore the “winter” wave of the coronavirus pandemic will not affect the downward trend in this indicator, Yefimov noted.
According to HeadHunter, the level of tension in the skilled labor market, which is expressed in the ratio of the number of resumes and vacancies, decreased in December 2021 by 41% in annual terms. The number of vacancies increased by 60%, and the number of resumes decreased by 4%.
Meanwhile, the level of tension in the capital’s skilled labor market remains at a minimum level – 5.1 resumes per vacancy against 17.2 in May 2020.
According to the portal “Work in Russia”, the number of employed citizens in April 2020 – December 2021 exceeded the number of laid-off citizens by 584 thousand people.
The maximum excess was noted in the field of software development (82.1 thousand people), in wholesale trade (73.1 thousand), construction (66.9 thousand), healthcare (57.7 thousand) and retail trade (47 .3 thousand people).