Unemployment rate drops slightly to 5%

Unemployment fell slightly in October, the eighth month in a row in which the jobless total has gone down, the national statistics office CBS said on Thursday.


Unemployment among youngsters went down the most, the CBS said.
The official Dutch unemployment rate is now 5%.

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