Unemployment charge at 5.9 % on the finish of August – Muricas News

The decline was significantly robust among the many long-term unemployed, with 46.1 % fewer individuals who had been registered as unemployed for greater than a yr in comparison with the earlier yr. However these are nonetheless 40,404 folks.

What can also be placing within the figures offered immediately by the labor market service: Amongst younger folks beneath the age of 25, the variety of job seekers fell by solely 3.3 % in comparison with August final yr, within the group between 25 and 49 years it was minus 10.5 %, within the case of fifty + the decline was 15.5 %. It is usually placing that the decline in folks with obligatory education was simply as excessive as in teachers (minus 9.1 %). For folks with an apprenticeship, the drop was 14.5 %.