Border-workers growing in Switzerland, not in Ticino

The Federal Statistical Office (FSO) today released the quarterly statistics of the border in Switzerland. If in Ticino in the first quarter of 2016, the data registers 62 647, or + 0.3% compared to the last quarter of 2015, compared to the same quarter last year is -0.5%.

At the Swiss level, frontier workers are 306,245, 0.7% more than in the previous quarter and 3.8% more than in the same quarter last year. According to the data, growth in the second quarter covers the whole of Switzerland: + 1% in the Lake Geneva region (+ 5.4% over one year), up 0.6% in the Central Plateau, + 0.7% in Northwestern Switzerland, + 0.6% in Zurich, + 0.9% in Eastern Switzerland and + 4.5% in the middle.

In total, the French are now 168'138, followed by Italians (69'886), German (60'215) and Austrian (8'096).

Meanwhile it continues to fall the number of unemployed in Ticino: in July 5069 were those registered, 50 less than in June and 174 fewer than in July last year. The unemployment rate fell from 3.1% in June to 3% last month, which is below the national average of 3.1%.

And always at the Swiss national level at the end of July were 139,310 registered unemployed, 183 more than in the previous month and 5,556 (+ 4.2%) more than in the same month of 2015.

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