Sentences with phrase «fall in unemployment figure»

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Spain's household savings rate fell to its lowest level on record in the third quarter of last year as high unemployment and wage deflation in the latest recession obliged them to devote more of their disposable income to consumption, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

Looking at the figures for each recession, it's notable that (a) the proportionate rise in the level of unemployment, once the fall in GDP is taken into account, bears some relation to the rise in real wages; (b) there is no consistent difference between supply - side and demand - side recessions; (c) given the long - term costs of unemployment, a flexible labour market becomes extremely important in a recession.

Official figures from Eurostat show that the fall in the eurozone unemployment rate has been painfully slow — declining to 11.1 % in April from 11.7 % a year earlier — and remains much higher in countries like Greece and Spain.

Unemployment across the 19 - country eurozone has fallen to its lowest level in a little more than nine years on the back of strong economic growth, official figures showed Thursday.

Following the publication of figures in October 2011 showing that unemployment had risen to 2.57 million, the leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband, argued that as the Prime Minister had «justified his economic policy» by saying unemployment would fall «this year, next year and the year after», he must now «change course so that he has a credible plan to get people back to work in this country.»

Unemployment has fallen by 14,000 in the final quarter of last year to 2.5 million according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Unemployment fell marginally in the first three months of the year, figures out today have shown, in a boost to the coalition.

The Conservatives have accused Labour of seeking to «talk down the economy» by latching on to the recent youth unemployment figures when the total number out of work in the UK fell by 97,000 to 1.86 million in the three months to December.

His claim that unemployment will fall rather than rise in the course of this Parliament is based on the OBR assessment, rapidly rushed out to give ammunition to contest the anticipated Harman attack (incidentally providing the first suspicions about the OBR's objectivity), that whilst 600,000 public sector jobs will be lost by 2015 - 6 and a similar figure (though unspecified) in the private sector as a result of the public spending cuts, some 2.5 m jobs will be created over the same period in the private sector.

And we shouldn't allow welcome falls in headline unemployment figures to conceal deeper problems in our labour market.

Commenting on figures published today showing unemployment in Wales fell by 6,000 in the 3 months to February 2014, Eluned Parrott, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Economy Minister, said:

Shadow work and pensions secretary Theresa May said: «Any fall in the level of unemployment is welcome news, but today's figures are still real cause for concern.

In particular, the payroll figures for April have shown that hiring has rebounded and US unemployment rate has fallen below 4 % for the first time since December 2000.

While the latest figures show a fall in overall unemployment, there has been a record rise in the number of people out of work for more than a year.

The unemployment rate for adults ages 25 to 34 fell to 5.4 percent in February from a high of 10.6 percent in October 2009, Labor Department figures show.