Unemployment unchanged at 5.8%

Thursday 19 January 2012

The official Dutch unemployment rate remained 5.8% in December, the national statistics office CBS said on Thursday.

Last year as a whole, the jobless rate was 5.4%, the same as in 2010, the CBS said.

However, the number of people registered as looking for work and the number of people claiming unemployment benefits both rose in December.

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