Austria: Unemployment Grows

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: December 13, 2012; 12:51 ♦ (Vindobona)

Increase in unemployment in the third quarter of 2012, number of employees also growing.

Austria: Unemployment Grows / Picture: © Vindobona.org

According to Statistics Austria, the number of employed persons increased to a total of 4.242 million in the third quarter of 2012 (4.200 million in the third quarter of 2011). Employees increased clearly (male +17 000, female +34 400) and self-employed decreased (total -9 200) in the year to year comparison. However, the number of full-time employees went up by 14 600 (exclusively men)…