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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach

School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell University

16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky

New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau

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BLS

International Labor Comparisons

International Unemployment Rates and Employment Indexes, Seasonally Adjusted, 2008-2012 [8 March 2012]

http://www.bls.gov/fls/intl_unemployment_rates_monthly.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/fls/intl_unemployment_rates_monthly.pdf

[full-text, 5 pages]

or

http://www.bls.gov/fls/intl_unemployment_rates_monthly.xls

[spreadsheet]

Highlights

·         Of the foreign countries covered by the BLS unemployment comparisons program, unemployment rates decreased in January 2012 in Australia and Germany. See Chart 1 and Table 1.

·         The highest unemployment rates in January were in France (9.7 percent) and Italy (9.3 percent).

·         For the EU countries not covered in the BLS comparisons but tracked by BLS, only Austria saw a decrease in its unemployment rate in January 2012. See Chart 2 and Table 2.

·         Employment decreased in January in the Netherlands and Sweden. See Table 3.

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