The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in March (including February, March and April) rose to 13%, from 12.7% in the previous month. Several factors helped to limit the pace of the increase in the March unemployment rate: legislation banning layoffs for three months, introduced in mid-April; the presence of February data in the series, which is prior to the COVID-19 impact; and the arrival of the pandemic at a relatively later date than in other countries.
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