By Chloe Mari A. Hufana, Reporter
UNEMPLOYMENT in the Philippines eased to 4% in August as more female workers got hired in the service sector, the local statistics agency said on Tuesday.
Preliminary data from the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) labor force survey showed the jobless rate fell from 4.7% in July and 4.4% in August last year.
This translated 2.07 million unemployed Filipinos, down by 305,000 from July and by 149,000 from a year earlier.
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