The jobless rate after seasonal adjustments held steady at 3.75 percent, suggesting a stable market, Chen said. The number of jobless people shrank by 0.52 percent, or 2,000, to 438,000 last month, the agency’s monthly report showed. People with a junior-college education had the lowest unemployment rate at 2.5 percent, followed by those with a junior-high school education at 2.67 percent, it showed. People aged 45 to 64 had the lowest unemployment rate of 2.16 percent, it showed. The nation’s unemployment rate is lower than South Korea’s 5.7 percent, Hong Kong’s 6.5 percent and Germany’s 4.4 percent, but higher than Japan’s 2.8 percent, government data showed.

Source: Taipei Times February 25, 2021 15:56 UTC