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Foreigners are particularly affected by the crisis. For people without Austrian citizenship, unemployment increased at a higher than average rate: 31.6 percent compared to October 2019. For people aged 50 and over, the increase was 22.2 percent and for young people (15 to 24 years old) 19.0 percent.
In Vienna and Lower Austria, at the end of October 2020 there were still more young people looking for an apprenticeship than open apprenticeships. On the contrary, there are significantly more vacant apprenticeships available in Upper Austria, Salzburg and Tyrol than registered apprenticeship applicants. In Austria and across all sectors, there were 7,832 apprenticeship applicants at the end of October and 7,319 apprenticeships.
All nine federal states recorded rising unemployment figures due to the crisis. Growth is strongest in Tirol (+ 38.9%) and Vorarlberg (+ 30.6%). They are followed by Vienna (+ 26.4%), Salzburg (+ 25.6%), Upper Austria (+ 25.4%), Styria (+ 23.6%), Burgenland (+ 20.4%) and Lower Austria . (+18.9) and Carinthia (+ 9.5%).
The nationally defined unemployment rate is now at an estimated 8.7 percent, an increase of 1.7 percentage points compared to October 2019. According to Eurostat’s international survey method, the unemployment rate in September 2020 was 5.5 percent. Austria, still the EU leader in 2012, ranks 11th in terms of unemployment rate in a European comparison.
