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Short-time work was able to significantly alleviate the consequences of the second lockdown on the labor market. But the numbers are likely to continue to rise in winter.
457,197 people in Austria were out of work in November this year. That’s an increase of 24.9 percent or 91,247 people in one year, the Labor Ministry announced Tuesday. Compared to the previous month of October there was an increase of 33,447 people, compared to the previous week an increase of around 3,300 people.
Of the 457,197 people without work, 390,858 were in the Public Employment Service (AMS) unemployed reported: an increase of 30.5 percent or 91,331 people in one year. Another 66,339 people were in an AMS training course.
With the reserved unemployed For men (206,971), the increase compared to the previous year at +28.8 percent was slightly less than for women (183,887) at +32.4 percent. The number of immediately available vacancies decreased by more than 6,000 compared to the previous month to 58,243.
276,370 people are currently working short-time, he said Tuesday, that’s 57,000 more than a week ago.
Unemployment rose particularly sharply in tourism, where 72,146 people are currently looking for work, up 46 percent from a year ago. Slightly weaker, but also very strong, are the effects on retail with an increase of 32.4 percent during the year.
the Unemployment rate By national definition, it is now an estimated 9.5 percent, an increase of 2.1 percentage points compared to November 2019. For women, the rate was 9.6 percent (+2.3 percentage points ), for men it was 9.3 percent (+2.0 percentage points).
(APA / red.)
