Where the statistics leave out the unemployed



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Experts are concerned about the rise in long-term unemployment. The official figures do not include all the long-term unemployed, as a current analysis shows. The devil is in the details.

Vienna. Makes experts worry about the lines: The growing number of long-term unemployed. In September, 120,516 people were registered as long-term unemployed with the Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS). You have not had a permanent paid job for a year or more. The long-term unemployed find it difficult to return to the labor market because they are often older, have little education or have health problems.

The number of long-term unemployed is even higher, the Momentum Institute noted in a recently published analysis. Because almost 40,000 participants in the training are not included in the official number. However, they must also be included in the statistics when calculating the monthly unemployment figures. “Otherwise, it hides the real scale of the problem,” said chief economist Oliver Picek.

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