German Unemployment Declines More Than Expected
31 Agosto 2021 - 10:15AM
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German unemployment declined in August as firms hired more staff
after the restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic were
relaxed, official data revealed on Tuesday. The jobless rate fell
to 5.5 percent in August from revised 5.6 percent in July, the
Federal Labor Agency reported. The rate was forecast to drop to 5.6
percent from July's initially estimated rate of 5.7 percent.
The number of people out of work decreased more-than-expected
53,000 after declining 90,000 in July. Economists had forecast a
drop of 40,000.
The labor market has continued to recover, Federal Employment
Agency CEO Detlef Scheele, said.
"Unemployment and underemployment have continued to fall
sharply, although there is still a summer break," Scheele said.
Employment growth is gaining momentum.
The labor force survey published by Destatis, earlier in the
day, showed that the jobless rate fell to a seasonally adjusted 3.6
percent in July from 3.7 percent in June.
The number of unemployed came in at 1.56 million, which was a
decline of 19,000 or 1.2 percent on June, the labor force survey
revealed.
On an unadjusted basis, the unemployment rate held steady at 3.7
percent in July.
Without seasonal adjustment, the number of persons in employment
rose by 121,000, or +0.3 percent in July from the previous month.
This month-on-month increase was much higher than the average
recorded for July of the three pre-crisis years 2017 to 2019,
Destatis reported.
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