Tuesday, February 2, 2016

2.92 million people without jobs: Lowest January value since 1991 – t-online.de

The number of unemployed has been rising to 2.92 million in January to 239,000. But that’s for Germany, the lowest January level since 1991. All the other statistical data are positive.

Compared to the previous year, are for the first month of the year 111,000 unemployed less, said the Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg with. Opposite December 2015, the unemployment rate rose in Germany by 0.6 points to 6.7 percent.

A rise in unemployment in January is common because of the winter break. But even that is for government chief Frank-Juergen Weise a good sign, because the increase is, according to Employment Agency this year lower than in previous years.



number of regular jobs increases

Namely, when adjusted for the number of unemployed to seasonal influences, it has decreased according to official statistics, compared to December at 20,000. In West Germany the number decreased by 9000, to the east by 11,000.

At the same time, employment has increased, and also the number of people with a regular job has continued to rise. According to the latest data of the Federal Statistical Office in December, the number of employed persons increased from the previous month, seasonally adjusted by 44,000 to 43.3 million. That was 439,000 more than last year.



Economy seeks professionals

The number of social insurance contributions submitted by the extrapolation of the federal agency from October to November by 76,000 to 31.39 million. That was 757,000 more people with regular employment than a year ago

And the companies continue to look for new employees. The number of vacancies rose in January compared to the previous year by 96,000 to 581,000. Particularly sought were workers in the occupational fields of sales, in the field of mechatronics, energy and electrical engineering as well as in transport and logistics. This was followed by occupations in engineering and automotive engineering, metal fabrication, machining, metal construction and medical health professionals

Good development in the euro area

Also in the euro area is a positive development. The unemployment rate is dropped to 10.4 percent in December. That’s the lowest level since September 2011 and a decrease of 0.1 points from the previous month, said the EU statistics agency Eurostat in Luxembourg. In total, in the 19 countries using the single currency 16.75 million people out of work.

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