Medium-term Employment Forecasts for Austria and the Laender. Changes in Occupations and Sectors 2016 to 2023

As a basis for medium-term forecasts of the future qualification demand WIFO regularily produces forecasts of the development of employment by occupations, sectors and gender. The current calculations cover the period 2016 to 2023 and offer a rich set of forecasts for 38 sectors and 59 occupations. On the level of the nine Länder we provide estimates for 38 sectors and 27 occupations. With total employment growth of nearly 1.3 percent p.a., there is a clear trend towards higher skill requirements and service-oriented activities. Academic occupations show clearly above-average growth, while professions with higher proportions of low-skilled show employment losses.