Long abstract

OECD Standardised Unemployment Rates (SURs) - Updated: December 2007

The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 5.5% in October 2007, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.4 percentage point lower than a year earlier.

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