The slight fall in the unemployment rate in February suggests that the government’s job furlough scheme is still insulating the labour market from the worst effects of the pandemic. We still expect the unemployment rate to rise to a peak of 6.0% by early 2022, but that would be a much better result than most feared only a few months ago.
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