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At the end of February this year, 9,181 unemployed first-generation immigrants were registered, 1,786 fewer than the same quarter last year. This is a decline of fully 2.4 per cent in the number of unemployed persons as a percentage of the workforce. In comparison, the unemployment rate for the entire population declined 0.9 per cent.
Registered unemployment among first-generation immigrants went down from 10.5 per cent in February last year to 8.1 per cent in February this year. By comparison, unemployment in the entire population declined from 3.7 to 2.8 per cent in the same period. The largest decline in unemployment was seen among immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa.
The largest decline in the unemployment rate was seen among immigrants from Eastern Europe, with 4.6 per cent, and immigrants from Africa, with 3.9 per cent, although they had the highest unemployment rate from before. Immigrants from Asia and South and Central America also saw their unemployment rate decline by more than three per cent. The statistics cover first-generation immigrants.
While the number of non-Western unemployed immigrants as a percentage of the workforce is as much as 12.3 per cent, the unemployment rate of Western immigrants is only a few tenths of a per cent higher than for the population as a whole.
Weekly Bulletin issue no. 21, 1998