Active Employment In Upper Austria, 2006

The study looks into fuzzy figures of the employment and unemployment statistics, quantifying their effects. About one fifth of the rise in employment in 2000–2006 is the result of institutional change. Nevertheless, such changes have no impact on Upper Austria's ranking in the long-term comparison of Austrian Länder: even adjusted for such revisions, the state still records the second highest employment growth after Tyrol. In 2006, employment actually rose by 1,000 workers less (or about one-eleventh) than was officially recorded. In the long term grow occurs mostly in part-time employment, although the trend reversed in 2006: the working volume had substantially increased. Surplus labour as a share of active plus surplus workers was at 6.6 percent, compared to a registered unemployment rate of 4.2 percent. Altogether 6,500 workers were long-term unemployed, 13,600 (projected) worked part-time only because they found no full-time job. Labour surplus as a share of active employment exceeded the Austrian average by 2.7 percentage points, the second-lowest figure among Austrian Länder; part-time unemployment as a share of the gainfully employed was lower only in Vorarlberg, Salzburg and Tyrol. Furthermore, long-term unemployment was lower only in Tyrol and Salzburg.