Germany s unemployment rate this past summer was around 5.5 , and its youth unemployment rate was around 8 remarkably low compared with many other high income economies.

So the high share of government employment contributes to the region s low unemployment rate.

The Bedouin population has a high rate of unemployment and low socio economic state.

The country has a high unemployment rate of 12.6 and has fairly low median income compared to European countries.

The fragile security situation, combined with high unemployment, has kept the rate of returns of internally displaced persons low.

If a government attempts to push the unemployment rate too low, inflation will increase, and so, too, will inflationary expectations.

The unemployment rate increased from a low of 1.7 in June 2000 to a peak of 4.4 in December 2009.

The low level of qualifications among women, which has led to a high female unemployment rate, following civil service staffing cutbacks.

Unemployment rate was 10 .

If the economy is at potential, the unemployment rate equals the NAIRU or the natural rate of unemployment.

But the ECB has signaled that big interest rate cuts are unlikely as long as the German economy remains strong, with relatively low unemployment.

Its unemployment rate remained low during most of its lost decade, and, although it has shot up more recently, it is still only 5 .

The high unemployment rate among women was a reflection of Latvia's overall unemployment rate, which stood at 10.6 per cent.

The unemployment rate was 11.3 in 2006.

In October 2011, unemployment rate was 17.4 .

America s high rate of unemployment and the low rates of capacity utilization imply that there is little upward pressure on wages and prices in the US.

But the current version of this promise not to raise the overnight interest rate until the unemployment rate drops below 6.5 no longer implies that short term rates will remain low for an extended period.

The current system underpins Spain s soaring unemployment rate.

In October 2011, unemployment rate stood at 17.4 .

In 2001 and 2002 the unemployment rate dropped.

Unemployment has remained remarkably low and confidence relatively high.

As of 2007, the city's unemployment rate is 9.4 .

Meanwhile, the headline unemployment rate does not reflect the growing number of Americans who have left the work force a phenomenon vividly reflected by the decline in the labor participation rate to just 63.2 , a 35 year low.

Women have a slightly higher unemployment rate (7.4 ) than men.

Labor market experts thus consider the unemployment rate a potentially misleading indicator, because a youth unemployment rate of 50 does not mean that half of the young population is unemployed. That is why one should look at the unemployment ratio the percentage of the unemployed in the reference population rather than at the unemployment rate.

Sixteen years after the crisis, the unemployment rate was 6.2 more than triple the rate in 1990.

Using RMB appreciation as the primary tool to fight inflation implies accepting a temporarily higher unemployment rate now in exchange for a permanently lower unemployment rate in the future.

Unemployment, moreover, is rising at its fastest rate in seven years.

At the start of 1996, the US unemployment rate was 5.6 .

The unemployment rate, according to government statistics, was 1.5 in 2005.

The Commission is encouraged by the reduction of the unemployment rate.

The maternal mortality rate has remained generally low.

Labor force participation will be key to shaping this environment. As it stands, the low official unemployment rate can be explained partly by declining participation rates, especially among workers aged 25 54.

For example, Spain s 48.9 youth unemployment rate implies significantly worse conditions for young people than its 19 youth unemployment ratio.

Unemployment gap between Jews and Palestinians in Israel Since 1996, the overall unemployment rate in Israel has been rising steadily.

The unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in 2010, and inflation was last calculated at 1.2 percent rate in 2003.

In 2000, the unemployment rate for young males aged 15 24 was 15.7 the rate for women was 16.8 .

Likewise, Spain s unemployment rate is above 25 (and 55 for young people).

Brazil s unemployment rate, for example, is at lows not seen for decades.

Greece s youth unemployment rate now exceeds 60 , and Spain s is above 50 .

Indeed, the official unemployment rate understates the weakness of the labor market.

By contrast, the US unemployment rate has almost doubled, now approaching 10 .

Its savings rate has been distressingly low for decades.

Emerging market interest rate spreads now are abnormally low.

And, according to Greenspan s successor, Ben Bernanke, there is no reason to assume that the unemployment rate will approach 5 generally considered to be the natural rate of unemployment any time soon.