Monthly Bulletin. Employment. Monthly statistics of registered unemployed in the Community.

Abstract

More than 10 million persons were registered as unemployed in the European Community at the end of 1981. The unemployment rate calculated by reference to the civilian working population rose once again, to 9.2 %at the end of December 1981. The average increase in registered unemployment in the Community of Nine during December 1981 was 2. 7% and the trends observed during the previous month continued. A fairly sharp distinction can be made between certain countries where unemployment is relatively stable such as France, Italy and the United Kingdom and others, where it is growing rapidly: the most disquieting instances are the F.R. of Germany with an increase of + 14 % in the month and the Netherlands with + 7 %. These increases are muchinexcess of those usual in winter and confirm the considerable deteriora-tion in the labour market situation observed for a number of months past.