Poland’s unemployment rate rises to 5.5% in January

Poland's unemployment rate rises to 5.5% in January
The Palace of Culture is seen behind a worker at the construction site of the new skyscraper in Warsaw

– Poland’s registered unemployment rate rose to 5.5% in January compared with 5.4% in December, statistics office data showed on Wednesday, below analysts’ expectations of 5.6%.

The statistics office also said that the number of registered unemployed was 927,100 last month.

Separately, the statistics office said the unemployment rate as measured by the Labour Force Survey (BAEL) rose to 2.9% in the fourth quarter.

(Reporting by Anna Banacka and Weronika Maria Edmunds)

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