EU employment grows

The seasonally adjusted number of persons employed in the euro area rose by 0.4 per cent (517,000 persons) in the third quarter of 2006, according to provisional national accounts estimates published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European...

The seasonally adjusted number of persons employed in the euro area rose by 0.4 per cent (517,000 persons) in the third quarter of 2006, according to provisional national accounts estimates published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Communities. During the same period, the number of people employed in the EU25 grew by 0.3 per cent (612,000 persons). In the second quarter this year, growth rates were also up 0.4 per cent in the euro area and up 0.3 per cent in the EU25.

Compared to the same quarter of the previous year, employment grew by 1.4 per cent in the euro area and by 1.1 per cent in the EU25 in the third quarter of this year, after +1.3 per cent and +1.1 per cent respectively in the second quarter of this year.

Eurostat estimates that in the third quarter of 2006, 139.6 million men and women were employed in the euro area and 205.5 million in the EU25.

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