RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The record through September is 3.9 percentage points lower over the same period last year, said the National Statistics Institute (INE). In the quarter through August, unemployment stood at 8.5%.
The figure between July and September is "the result of the increase in the labor force (8.4%), lower than that of employed (13.3%) and the decrease of 26.2% in unemployed," INE said.
Among the unemployed, the number of people laid off decreased by 27.1%.
The economic sectors leading in job growth were commerce, construction, housing and food services, sectors that . . .
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