More jobs created in six months

About 722,500 workers have found jobs in the first half of the year, up 98% from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment. 

Of them, 40,000 have gone to work overseas, down 4% year-on-year. 

Unemployment is estimated at 2.28% for the first half of the year - 3.85% in urban areas and 1.57% in rural areas. 

During this period, about 10.9 million people have participated in compulsory social insurance schemes, up 7.1 percent year-on-year. 

Meanwhile, about 163,000 people have participated in voluntary social insurance schemes, up 20.7% against the same period last year. 

About 182,300 people applied for unemployment insurance in the first half of the year. 

Labour disputes relating to salary, bonus and food allowance have been reduced significantly over last year. 

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