(ANSA-AFP) - FRANKFURT AM MAIN, 01 LUG - Unemployment in
Germany only inched up in June, official data showed Wednesday,
as Europe's top economy has weathered the coronavirus storm so
far without mass layoffs. The unemployment rate added just 0.1
percentage point compared with May, reaching 6.4 percent,
seasonally-adjusted figures from the BA federal labour agency
showed. Before the pandemic reached Germany in March, the rate
had hovered around 5.0 percent since late 2018 as the country
basked in the end of a post-financial crisis boom. In absolute
terms, less representative of underlying trends but more closely
followed in public debate, the number of people out of work rose
by 40,000 month-on-month, to over 2.8 million. That was almost
640,000 more than a year ago. (ANSA-AFP).
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