by Calculated Risk on 1/09/2010 09:32:00 AM

Forgot to mention yesterday that unemployment in the eurozone also hit 10%:

From the Financial Times: Eurozone unemployment hits 10%

The Netherlands’ jobless rate is 3.9 per cent ... Spanish unemployment ... is at 19.4 per cent, nearly three times its level before its credit-fuelled economy collapsed. Germany has 7.6 per cent unemployment.
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The jobless rate has been contained by extraordinary measures that have protected the labour market, most notably the sharp rise in “short-work” schemes, where governments subsidise employers to keep workers on their payrolls through the downturn.
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More from Eurostat: Euro area unemployment rate up to 10.0% (pdf)

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These figures are published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

Among the Member States, the lowest unemployment rates were recorded in the Netherlands (3.9%) and Austria (5.5%), and the highest rates in Latvia (22.3%) and Spain (19.4%).

Compared with a year ago, all Member States recorded an increase in their unemployment rate. The smallest increases were observed in Germany (7.1% to 7.6%), Luxemburg (5.2% to 6.0%) and Malta (6.2% to 7.0%). The highest increases were registered in Latvia (10.2% to 22.3%), Estonia (6.5% to 15.2% between the third quarters of 2008 and 2009) and Lithuania (6.4% to 14.6% between the third quarters of 2008 and 2009).