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The number of Luxembourg residents looking for work in May 2020 surged by nearly 34% compared to previous year. Pictured: Commuters are seen at the central train station in Luxembourg City, 11 May 2020. Photo: Matic Zorman/Maison Moderne 

There were 15,124 resident jobseekers on 31 May 2019, a figure which rose by 33.6% to 20,209 on 31 May 2020.

That put the permanent unemployment rate at 7%.

Conversely, the number of fresh job postings was down by a third. Employers advertised 3,465 positions with the national employment bureau in May 2019, a figure which shrunk by 33.4% to 2,309 in May 2020.

Adem released the monthly report on 22 June.

Permanent unemployment data is discrete from the number of employees participating in the short-time working scheme.