New high unemployment leads to 8.5% in February, shows IBGE
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The unemployment rate in the country in February recorded its second consecutive high, according to data released this Thursday (26) by the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Reflecting the worsening of economic situation worldwide, the indicator rose from 8.2% in January to 8.5% last month, the highest rate since last April.
The acceleration, however, was lower than that recorded in January, when they rose 1.4 percentage point. In February 2008, unemployment had fallen by 8.7%. The vacant population reached 1.9 million people, 51 thousand (2.7%) more than the number recorded in January.
In February, the occupied population in the six metropolitan areas surveyed was reduced by 1.0% against the January to 20.9 million people. In comparison with the same month of 2008, however, recorded high of 1.4%.
The data from the IBGE show a reduction in employment in the comparison between January and February between the military and civil servants statutory. In this category, the occupied population showed a reduction of 5.5%. Between workers with and without portfolio and signed by themselves, there was stability in the same basis of comparison.
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Despite the cutting of vacancies, the average real income of workers was not usually change, retreating 0.1% in the month, to $ 1,321.30. Forward to February 2008, the high was 4.6%.
In the same period the average real household income per capita declined 1.0% to 835.21. Now the effective mass of real income of the population covered (U.S. $ 27.5 billion), estimated by the Monthly Employment Research February 2009 (reference month of January 2009), showed decrease in relation to December 2008 (21.6 %) and high in comparison with January 2008 (6.3%).
Source: G1
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