Unemployment rate at 4.02 pct in December 2017

  The nationwide unemployment rate as of December 2017 was 4.02 percent, by 0.75 percentage points higher year-on-year and 0.02 percentage points higher than in November 2017, the National Employment Agency said in a Friday release.Of the 351,105 jobless registered with the local employment agencies 72,917 collect unemployment benefits.By gender, at 4.23 percent, the male unemployment rate was up from 4.18 percentage points in November, while the ...

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