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Labour Market (Apr./May)

The remarkably small rise in unemployment in April suggests that the unemployment rate may not increase quite as far as we had anticipated. Even so, bigger rises are almost certainly on the way as the ILO measure catches up with more timely indicators of unemployment and firms engage in another round of redundancies as the government’s job furlough scheme is wound down.

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