China News Service, May 24. According to Taiwan's "United Daily News", the "General Accounting Office" of the Taiwan authorities announced on the 23rd that the unemployment rate in April was 3.62%, a decrease of 0.04 percentage points from the previous month.
An official from Taiwan's "General Accounting Office" said that the number of confirmed cases during the investigation in April was only more than 500 per day, and the impact on the job market as the epidemic heats up cannot be seen. 234,000 people, an increase of 31,000 people from March. It can indeed be seen that the heating up of the epidemic has had an effect on labor hours. It is expected that the number of unpaid leave in May may be more obvious.
The "General Accounting Office" said that the unemployment rate in April was 3.62%, a decrease of 0.04 percentage points from the previous month and a decrease of 0.02 percentage points from the same month of the previous year; the number of unemployed persons in April was 429,000, a decrease of 6,000 from the previous month.
Both the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed fell, mainly due to the decrease of 2,000 people who were unemployed for the first time. The number of unemployed people also decreased by 1,000 due to the contraction or closure of workplaces and dissatisfaction with their original jobs. After reaching a peak in July last year, Decrease for 10 consecutive months.
A person from the "General Accounting Office" said frankly that the survey standard week in April was from April 10 to April 16. At that time, the number of confirmed cases of the epidemic was more than 500 to more than 1,300 a day, so the unemployment rate and the unemployment rate after seasonal adjustment were both decline.
After the epidemic heated up in May, the data standard week in May was last week (May 15-May 21), and the epidemic has heated up significantly. According to the experience of last year and the previous year, the employment market will have obvious changes during the peak of the epidemic, so follow-up related Whether the indicator changes, it is worth paying close attention to.
In addition, although the unemployment rate dropped in April, the number of working hours per week in April did not reach 35 hours due to economic factors, an increase of 31,000 from March and an increase of 45,000 from the same month of the previous year. Labour hours hit.
Taiwan's employment in April was 11.415 million, a decrease of 25,000 from the previous month, and a sharp drop of 109,000 from the same month of the previous year.
In terms of education level, the unemployment rate is the highest at 5.17% for those with a college degree, 3.35% and 2.68% for those with senior secondary (high school, vocational) and postgraduate levels, respectively.
In terms of age group, 12.26% is higher for 20-24 years old, most of them are looking for a job for the first time, and they are in the stage of workplace adjustment. The unemployment rate for 25-29-year-olds is 6.10%, and the 30-34-year-olds drop to 3.60%.