According to data from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), 106,957 people were registered as unemployed at the end of April 2024, 1,636 (-1.5%) fewer than in the previous month, taking the rate from 2.4% to 2.3%. However, unemployment remained higher (+0.3 percentage points) than it was at the same time in 2023.
Photo by Tim Gouw on Pexels.comAt the end of April 2024, youth unemployment (2.0%) and unemployment among those aged 50-64 (2.2%) were lower than the average (2.3%). The worst affected age group was those aged 25-49 (2.6%).
People in French- and Italian-speaking Switzerland were worse affected (3.3%) than German-speakers (2.0%), men (2.4%) were worse off than women (2.2%) and foreigners (4.4%) were harder hit than Swiss nationals (1.5%). Unemployment is a
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