German Unemployment Unchanged as Migrants Bolster Workforce

  • March snaps run of five monthly declines in number out of work
  • Jobless rate remains at record-low level of 6.2 percent

A jobseeker sits at a desktop computer inside a Agentur fuer Arbeit employment office in Stuttgart,

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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German joblessness was unchanged in March, snapping a run of five consecutive declines, in a sign that Europe’s largest economy may be struggling to absorb a wave of refugees.

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