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Harmonised Unemployment Rates stable at 8.2% in March for OECD
The OECD area unemployment rate was stable at 8.2% in March 2012, the same level recorded since February 2011. This flatness is largely the result of increasing rates in some euro area countries being offset by declines in North America. The euro area unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percentage point to 10.9% in March, 3.6 … Continue reading
OECD | Unemployment rate was broadly stable 8.2% since January 2011
The OECD area unemployment rate was 8.2% in February 2012, and has remained broadly at this level since January 2011. But the euro area unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percentage point (for the eighth consecutive month) to 10.8% in February, maintaining a record high since the start of the global financial crisis. The unemployment rate … Continue reading
Israel | 20% jump in unemployment after a switch to the OECD harmonized definition
Israel’s top economic officials were utterly bewildered by the 20% jump in unemployment after a switch to the OECD harmonized definition. Since last weekend, when the change was revealed, none of the country’s leading economists has been able to explain how a different measuring method jacked up the numbers. On Monday the head of the … Continue reading
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