Despite the corona crisis: unemployment in Germany falls in November

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Fewer unemployed in November, but more short-time work advertisements: This is how the Federal Employment Agency summarizes the labor market data for the past month.

According to this, 2.699 million people were unemployed in November, 61,000 fewer than in October.

Compared to the same month last year, however, there were 519,000 more.

The unemployment rate fell compared to October by 0.1 percentage points to 5.9 percent.

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