Age-specific Employment Forecast for Upper Austria by Sector

In the industrialised federal state of Upper Austria structural change will continue to progress in the coming years. The importance of many fields in the service sector is growing, while in the manufacturing sector employment losses are predicted. In absolute terms the number of dependent employees will increase by 36,900 to 563,500 by the year 2010. At the same time the demographic aging of the population presents a major challenge for the labour market: in the period between 2002 and 2010, as a result of the changeover of age groups from years of high birth-rates, massive shifts will be expected from the prime working age into the age group of the over 44-year-olds.