{"id":55636,"date":"2025-10-01T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55636\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:41:10","slug":"unemployment-rate-remains-unchanged-at-4-7-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/55636\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment rate remains unchanged at 4.7% \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The State\u2019s jobless rate remained unchanged at 4.7 per cent in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The headline rate was up from 4.1 per cent in September last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">The latest data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/central-statistics-office\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/central-statistics-office\">Central Statistics Office (CSO)<\/a> showed the seasonally adjusted number of people classified as unemployed was 138,200, compared with 138,600 in August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The agency said there was an increase of 18,900 in the seasonally adjusted number of people unemployed in September 2025 when compared with September 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The youth unemployment rate was 12.2 per cent, up from a revised rate of 12.1 per cent in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The monthly unemployment rate for people aged 25-74 years was 3.6 per cent, unchanged from the rate in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The unemployment rate here climbed to 4.9 per cent in July, a three-year high, but the lift was dismissed as statistical noise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The shift represented \u201ca mainly statistical aspect of the estimation process rather than providing any real-economy signal that Ireland\u2019s labour market conditions have worsened in 2025,\u201d Davy chief economist Kevin Timoney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The State\u2019s jobless rate remained unchanged at 4.7 per cent in September. The headline rate was up from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,14787,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-55636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-central-statistics-office","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}