Statistical Telegram. Monthly statistics of registered unemployment in the European Community.

Abstract

For the first time since Ml.rch 1979 the number of persons registered at public employment offices in the Community rose to just over 6 million. Unemployment as a percentage of the civilian working population rose from 5·5% in September to 5.6% at end-October 1979· Compared with the preceding month unemployment in the Community as a whole in-creased by 1.4%· Very different trends occurred in the individual Member-States. In four countries there was a deteriora. tion in the labour market with the rate of increase in unempl~ent sometimes considerably above the Community average: Luxembourg {+ 13.8%), France (+ 3.9%), the Federal Republic of Germany (+ 3·4%) and Italy (+ 2.5%). In contrast, in three Member-States there were significant reductions in unemployment: the Netherlands (-2.4%), Belgium (-2.1%) and the United Kingdom (-1.9%). In two Member-States the labour marked remained rela-tively unchanged. In Ireland unemployment rose by 0.4% while in Denmark it fell by 0.3%·