MACAO, July 28 (silubaba) -- Macao's general unemployment rate from April to June remained unchanged from the March-May period at 2.8 percent, the special administrative region's statistics department said on Friday.
The latest report from Macao's Statistics and Census Service said the unemployment rate of local residents was 3.5 percent, down slightly by 0.1 percentage point from the March-May period.
The underemployment rate remained unchanged at 1.8 percent, while the labor force participation rate was 67.7 percent.
The labor force living in Macao totaled 371,800 people from April to June. Total employment was 361,400 and the number of employed residents totaled 282,600, up by 2,100 and 1,400 respectively from the previous period.
The number of unemployed decreased by 100 from the previous period to 10,400.
Meanwhile, the proportion of people seeking their first job rose by 2.7 percentage points to 7.3 percent of the total unemployed.
The number of underemployed was 6,800, similar to the previous period. ■
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