The posts here make it feel like unemployment is at 20% or something tbh. Maybe is it because there are lots of vacant spots for mid levels but not so many for qualified jobs?
How much are these rates comparable?
I’m not sure it’s accurate. Many job postings but lot of Ghost jobs. Ground reality is different.
I think u can tamper with employment numbers easily. Doesnt show the correct picture
The figures in Germany are not a real indicator. It is critical to read. The government counts in a special way.
We must not forget that this is mainly because of the Hartz reforms of the social democrat Schroeder government. The reforms the social democrats lost the next election for. Christian democrats haven’t done anything meaningful for the job market and the Hartz reforms were so effective that during the whole Merkel government they didn’t have to touch it. (So no reason to lose an election becuase of hard reforms.)
Nowadays it is the social democrat finance minister who is again lobbying for an unpopular reform. And they are going to lose the next election again.
Isn’t BA doing some shenanigans with statistics? Don’t quote me on this one, but they do different counting for ‘fully unemployed, doing nothing’ and ‘unemployed, but attending some trainings/schools/couching from BA or JobCenter’.
So if someone is just receiving benefits and applies for jobs – this is pure unemployed person. But if that person is registered for-/attending any kind of employment-oriented measures – that person is not formally ‘unemployed’.
This is pure speculation, because I heard it from someone who ‘knows someone who knows stuff’ – you know, the usual trash-talking. Does anyone have actual insights into numbers behind statistics?
The question is what type of definition of unemployment did they use? The unemployment office of Germany has released their monthly rates to be 6.4%. The thing which has become clear over the years is that without further context a simple number means nothing.
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The posts here make it feel like unemployment is at 20% or something tbh. Maybe is it because there are lots of vacant spots for mid levels but not so many for qualified jobs?
How much are these rates comparable?
I’m not sure it’s accurate. Many job postings but lot of Ghost jobs. Ground reality is different.
I think u can tamper with employment numbers easily. Doesnt show the correct picture
The figures in Germany are not a real indicator. It is critical to read. The government counts in a special way.
We must not forget that this is mainly because of the Hartz reforms of the social democrat Schroeder government. The reforms the social democrats lost the next election for. Christian democrats haven’t done anything meaningful for the job market and the Hartz reforms were so effective that during the whole Merkel government they didn’t have to touch it. (So no reason to lose an election becuase of hard reforms.)
Nowadays it is the social democrat finance minister who is again lobbying for an unpopular reform. And they are going to lose the next election again.
Isn’t BA doing some shenanigans with statistics? Don’t quote me on this one, but they do different counting for ‘fully unemployed, doing nothing’ and ‘unemployed, but attending some trainings/schools/couching from BA or JobCenter’.
So if someone is just receiving benefits and applies for jobs – this is pure unemployed person. But if that person is registered for-/attending any kind of employment-oriented measures – that person is not formally ‘unemployed’.
This is pure speculation, because I heard it from someone who ‘knows someone who knows stuff’ – you know, the usual trash-talking. Does anyone have actual insights into numbers behind statistics?
The question is what type of definition of unemployment did they use? The unemployment office of Germany has released their monthly rates to be 6.4%. The thing which has become clear over the years is that without further context a simple number means nothing.