Employment Numbers Rose in the Second Quarter

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: September 15, 2011; 14:06 ♦ (Vindobona)

Number of employed increased, number of unemployed decreased, more vacancies in the second quarter of 2011.

Employment Numbers Rose in the Second Quarter / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Alfred T. Palmer [Public Domain]

According to Statistics Austria, the number of employed amounted to a total of 4.141 million in the second quarter of 2011 and thus increased by 60,000 persons compared to the second quarter of 2010. The number of employees as well as the number of self-employed increased (+44,000 resp. +16,000). The number of full-time jobs for employees went up by 25,000 (17,000 men) whereas the…