Long abstract

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: May 2009

The unemployment rate for the OECD area was 7.6% in March 2009, 0.3 percentage point higher than the previous month and 2.0 percentage points higher than a year earlier.

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