Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss unemployment in the second quarter of 2009 jumped from 3.4 percent to 4.1 percent compared to the same period last year, according to provisional figures released by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). Altogether there were 182,000 unemployed people in Switzerland at the end of June 2009. People aged 25-39 years were hardest hit: their rate of unemployment increased by 1.6 percentage points in a year to 4.7 percent, while the rate for those with only a secondary school education increased 1.3 percentage points to 7.4 percent.

By international comparison, the Swiss unemployment rate is still low, the study points out. European Union unemployment increased from 6.8 percent last year to 8.8 percent in the second quarter of 2009.

Posted by :: Sean Ecker on 29 September 2009 at 10:31 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 29 September 2009.

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  1. GenevaLunch » Blog Archive » Swiss unemployment reaches 4 percent in October Says:
    November 6th, 2009 at 10:28 am

    [...] note: careful readers may have noted that GenevaLunch published an article on Swiss unemployment late September by Swiss Statistics which reported 182,000 people out of work in Switzerland and a [...]

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