📋 Tender Overview
The official restrictions hardly left any traces on the Lower Austrian labor market in November - at least for the time being at the end of the month a total of 43929 people were registered as unemployed - that is a minus of 26.3 percent compared to November 2020 and a minus of 9.3 percent in comparison on November 2019 in the year before the crisis in October the minus was 10 percent. Lower Austria thus recorded the absolute largest decline in unemployment of all federal states - 4512 in a two-year comparison in relative terms it is the second largest after Carinthia.If you include the training participants the number of people registered with the AMS in Lower Austria was 53279 14807 or 21.8 percent fewer than in the same month of the previous year. The unemployment rate in Lower Austria is expected to be 6.4 percent in November - 2.2 percentage points below the previous year and 0.7 percentage points below the pre-crisis level.Also because of the onset of seasonal unemployment the AMS recorded an increased rush of customers in November The number of applications for unemployment benefit increased from November 22nd by 34 percent compared to the week before. The sharp increase in inquiries about short-time work shows that companies want to keep their workforce during the lockdown and do not want to send them into unemployment.Securing livelihoods for people who have lost their jobs and support for companies that are affected by the recent restrictions are now the central tasks say Martin Eichtinger state labor market councilor and Sven Hergovich state manager of AMS Lower Austria.The impending consolidation of unemployment remains the greatest challenge on the Lower Austrian labor market especially under the impression of the renewed lockdown. Nonetheless it has been possible to continue reducing long-term unemployment in Lower Austria over the past few months. The high level of long-term unemployed in the last six months was reduced from 16341 people in March to 10784. That is a reduction of exactly 34 percent compared to the previous year the decrease is 20 percent.Our goal is to continue to ensure that the job market is as stable as possible. Our programs which we designed together with the AMS N and the social partners to support unemployed people have proven to be tried and tested instruments emphasizes Eichtinger.Intensive care and placement are the most important measures to prevent and combat long-term unemployment. We will continue to do everything we can to keep the duration of unemployment in Lower Austria as short as possible and continue and expand tried and tested programs explains AMS N boss Hergovich.As has been the case for months men benefit from the current labor market trend in absolute terms somewhat more -8107 or -26.0 percent than women -7546 or -26.6 percent. According to age group there was a year-on-year decline in prime-age 25 to 49 people at the end of November by - 29.3 percent and among older people 50 a decline of - 21.5 percent. In terms of sectors the strongest declines compared to the previous year were in retail -3039 in accommodation and catering -2260 in building management and in temporary workers -2400 in total in goods production -1674 and in healthcare - and social affairs - 1.010 in construction - 920 and transport - 864. Compared to the previous year unemployment fell further in all districts of Lower Austria at the end of November.
