German jobless total falls again in September
AFP, October, 2004
NUREMBERG, Germany (AFP) — The number of people looking for work in Germany, the biggest eurozone economy, fell by about 90,000 to 4.257 million -- or 10.3 percent of the workforce -- in September, the Federal Labour Agency announced.
Unemployment usually decreases at this time of year at the start of the school term and as factories re-open after the summer holidays.
Taking such seasonal factors into consideration, the number of people claiming dole in Germany rose by 27,000 to 4.445 million in September from August, separate data published by the Bundesbank in Frankfurt showed.
It was the ninth month in a row ...