Switzerland: Unemployment at 3.5% in April

At the end of April 2016 Swiss unemployment fell by 0.1% compared with March, to stand at 3.5%. With the regional employment offices (Urc), are enrolled 149'540 unemployed, 5'784 less than in the previous month.

The data published today by the Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco), however, show that, compared with April of the previous year, the unemployment rate increased by 6% or 8'409 units.

In Ticino, the unemployment rate at the end of April stood at 3.6% decreasing by 0.3 points from the previous month. In contrast to the general situation in Switzerland, this value is lower than that recorded last year (-0.1 percentage points). On average over the past 12 months were 6'041 registered unemployed amounted to a 3.8% rate, which is less than the annual average value for 2014 and equal to that of 2015.