have been different, with rising unemployment rates. Disentangling the real trends from changes in measurement and sampling … economically active have both worked towards increasing the participation rate. As a consequence unemployment has risen over time …

unemployment has risen over the period, employment has also increased. Nonetheless, the extent of employment increase was not rapid … enough to absorb all net entrants in to the labour force, resulting in increasing unemployment, or an employment absorption … rate of below 100 per cent. Unemployment continues to be concentrated in specific demographically and geographically …