摘要：Labour market conditions continued to tighten in line
with the strong growth of the economy. There were signs
during the year that in some key sectors such as construction
and distribution shortages of skilled, and to some
extent unskilled workers were beginning to emerge.
Unemployment declined to an average of 8 percent
of the labour force from 8.4 percent in
2004 not withstanding the fact that an additional
10.2 thousand workers joined the labour force
during the year. The buoyant economy generated
11.6 thousand additional jobs as a result of which the
number of employed persons rose to 574
thousand out of a total workforce of 623.7 thousand.
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