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Despite moderate economic recovery, the urban unemployment rate continued to increase, from 7.2% in 1995 to 7.7% in 1996, reaching the highest level recorded since the mid-1980s. In preceding years a significant portion of higher unemployment was attributable to increases in the labour supply, which in 1996 expanded only through natural increase of the working-age population. Employment generation was weak; nine of the 14 countries for which there are data experienced a decrease in the rate of employment as a percentage of the working-age population. Thus, despite a slight increase in employment generation compared to the previous year, the inability of the productive system to generate jobs induced an increase in open unemployment.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development
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