| [ HUFSan ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): HUFSan (~ 푸힛 ~) 날 짜 (Date): 1998년 4월 29일 수요일 오후 09시 58분 14초 제 목(Title): 일본의 실업률. Jobless rate hits postwar high of 3.9% Yomiuri Shimbun The nation's unemployment rate increased 0.3 percentage point in March from the previous month to a postwar record high of 3.9 percent, the Management and Coordination Agency announced Tuesday. The job offer-to-applicant ratio in March, released the same day by the Labor Ministry, decreased by three percentage points from the previous month to 58:100. This was the seventh consecutive monthly decline and the first time the ratio had fallen below 0.6 since July 1983, when it also stood at 58:100. The figure means that there were only 58 job offers per 100 job seekers. The figures clearly indicated that the current economic slowdown is continuing to have a negative effect on the employment situation, analysts said. According to the agency's interim report, the number of unemployed people increased in March by 430,000 from a year ago to a record 2.77 million. As a result, the seasonally adjusted jobless rate surged to a record 3.9 percent, agency officials said. The rate jumped due to a continuing rise in redundancies as companies restructure and a slowdown in the increase in temporary jobs, they said. Unemployment rates among the young and the elderly reached double-digit figures for the first time. The number of unemployed graduates hit a record high of 260,000, the officials said. There were indications that students and retired workers were finding it difficult to get jobs, they said. The overall unemployment rate for fiscal 1997 was the highest annual figure ever at 3.5 percent. By sex, the unemployment rate for males increased 0.2 percentage point from the previous month to 3.9 percent and for females it was up 0.4 point to 3.8 percent--also record figures. By age, the unemployment rate of males between 15 and 24, which was not seasonally adjusted, stood at 10.1 percent and that for males between 60 and 64 was 10.4 percent. It was the first time the rates reached double-digit figures across all age categories since 1954, when the survey began. The number of redundancies increased by 190,000 from a year ago to 740,000. This was the sixth consecutive monthly rise since October last year, the officials said. -Warren G, DRU Hill, Graham Bonnet, Boyz List, Boston Kickout, Areosmith,Shawn Colvin, FireHouse, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Toni Braxton, Kenny G, Mark Owen, Donna Lewis, Scolpions, Gloria Estefan, REm, Suede, Enya, Take That...n' HUFSan |