THE OECD unemployment rate stood at 7.9% in October
2013, unchanged from the two previous months. Across the OECD area, 47.8
million persons were unemployed in October 2013, 13.1 million more than
in July 2008.
In the euro area,
the unemployment rate decreased by 0.1 percentage point to 12.1% in
October, the first decline since February 2011. This mainly reflected
a decline in the unemployment rate in France for the first time since March 2011 (by 0.2 percentage point to 10.9%) while unemployment rates remained unchanged in Germany and Italy, at 5.2% and 12.5%, respectively.
The
unemployment rate was stable in Japan (at4.0%) in October
and it decreased in Mexico (by 0.1 percentage point to
4.9%).In the United States, the unemployment rate increased
(by 0.1 percentage point to 7.3%), but more recent data show that it decreased
in November2013 (by 0.3 percentage point to 7.0%),while it remained stable
in Canadaduring the same period(at 6.9 %).
In
October, the OECD unemployment rate for women was up 0.1
percentage point, and stable for men, both at 7.9%. The
OECD unemployment rate for youth was unchanged at a high
16.1%. The youth unemployment rate reached a new peak in the Euro
area (up 0.1 percentage point to 24.4%) and remained at a high
level in Greece (up 0.3 percentage point to 58.0% in August,
the latest month available), Spain (up 0.6 percentage point
to 57.4%), Italy (up 0.7 percentage point to 41.2%), Portugal (up
0.3 percentage point to 36.5%) and the Slovak Republic (up
0.2 percentage point to 31.5%).
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