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Andy Fyers
As BusinessDesk reported on Wednesday, the headline unemployment figures for the June quarter need to be digested with a large grain of salt.Unemployment of 4 percent masks a whole range of things, including a shrinking labour force during lockdown. To be counted as unemployed you have to be actively looking for work and it's quite hard to actively look for work when most businesses are closed or working from home. That artificially shrank the number of people technically unemployed, during the lockdown period. In normal times, measuri...

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