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• Unemployment.

Figures released early October showed that the number of unemployed is fast approaching 150,000 (3.7 per cent). Long-term unemployed make up 17 per...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2003, Juin 2003

• Employment Meltdown

Nations are facing a global jobs crisis. Unemployment is rising rapidly, and is expected to reach 230 million people worldwide this year. They may be headed for a vast prolonged and severe jobs crisis. Just as policy-markets have taken and swift action to respond to the financial and economic downturn, similar bold action is required to address the jobs crisis. First, jobs and social protection must become the bedrock of crisis responses. Second, the response must be coordinated and global. All countries must join in making employment and social protection a centerpiece of their crisis responses. Third, there was a crisis before this crisis and they cannot just aim to go back to business as usual. In restoring confidence, they must focus on building peoples trust in progress towards a n...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 1, Janvier 2009

• Decisions: asylum and unemployment laws.

This month will see the last of four referendums in 2002, as the Swiss citizenry will step up to the ballot box to cast its vote on two key proposals:...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2002, Juin 2002

• Unemployment lowers.

For the first time over the last two years, the Swiss unemployment rate has fallen slightly in February by 0.1 per cent to 4.2 per cent--approximately...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2004, Mai 2004

• The Prospects for the World Trading System 2010: «Events, Dear Boy, Events»*

... corporate bankruptcies and growing unemployment levels in 2010, putting greater pressure on govern...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 65 Num. 1, Mars 2010

• Geneva: unemployment soars.

For the last 20 years, Geneva's unemployment office has seen its queues get longer than anywhere else in the country. Today, the rate of unemploymen...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2004, Mai 2004

• Unemployment falls.

The fall in Swiss unemployment rate for the third consecutive month has fuelled hope that the economy is finally gathering steam. Still, experts remai...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2004, Mai 2004

• Unemployment: foreigners bear the brunt; the global economic slowdown has not left Switzerland unscathed. Foreigners here are having a tough time job-wise. A report.

For so many long years has Switzerland been regarded as the land of milk and honey that the economic slowdown affecting the country over the last few...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2004, Mai 2004

• Unemployment on the rise again.

At the end of December 130,000 unemployed were registered in Switzerland, or 3.6 per cent of the workforce. The unemployment rate now stands at its...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2003, Juin 2003

• Unemployment rises again.

Unemployment in Switzerland has reached its highest level for four and a half years. The official jobless rate went up by 0.2 per cent in January to...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2003, Juin 2003