Tag: Unemployment
The U.S. private sector created 198,000 jobs
The gain of jobs spread across all sectors of the U.S. economy and all sizes of companies, it said in a statement. Within services, the subsector of transportation and utilities added 45,000 jobs, while professional and business services added 35,000. Construction added 21,000 jobs while industry added another 9,000. By size, companies with more than [...]
New Record of Unemployment in the Eurozone, 10.8% in February
The unemployment rate in the euro area in February stood at 10.8% of the workforce, compared to 10.7% in January, setting a new record in 25 years, reported Monday the European statistics office, Eurostat. In total, 17.13 million people were registered in February in the unemployment rolls in the Eurozone, 162,000 more than in January [...]
In February, the unemployment rate in Brazil was the highest in four months
The unemployment rate in Brazil in February was 5.7 percent of the economically active population, the highest rate in the last four months, the Government reported today. The unemployment rate topped 5.5 percent in January but was 0.7 percentage points lower than February 2011, according to data released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and [...]
The gap in unemployment between EU countries reach the highest level of the decade
The European Commission (EC) warned today about the increase in the difference between the levels of unemployment in the Member States, which in January reached a high of 19 points (between 4% rate registered in Austria and 23.3% of Spain), the largest gap during the last decade. In its monthly report on employment for March [...]
