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Werner Schelling Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor, Cocoyoc, November 7 2006 1

Labor market data as an important basis for labor market policies in the Austrian Public Employment Service

Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor,Cocoyoc, Mexico, November 7 2006


Disposition

• Austrian labor market • Public Employment Service of Austria • General data • PES data

Data on jobseekers Data on participants in labor market measures Data on vacancies Data on enterprises


Austrian labor market (2005)

• Population: 8,2 million• Employment: 3,1 million• Employment rate 15-64: 68,6 % (EU: 63,8 %)• Employment rate women: 62 % (EU: 56,3 %)• Employment rate 55-64: 31,8 % (EU: 42,5%)• Unemployment: 253.000• Unemployment rate: 5,2 % (EU: 8,7 %)


Public Employment Service of Austria (1)

• Tasks Information Advising and Councelling Placement Promotion of training and employment Unemployment Benefits Admission of foreign workers to the labor market

• Organisation 1 central office 9 regional offices

99 local offices


Public Employment Service of Austria (2)

• Staff 4.348 (full time equivalents)

• Budget (2005)

Administrative and management budget: € 185 million Placement and active labor market policies

budget: € 1.158 million

• Data Warehouse


General data (1)

• Population census Every 10 years (last one: 2001) Data on all persons living in Austria Data on employment and unemployment,

vocational education, occupation etc.

• Microcensus Survey on 22.500 households every quarter Data on employment/unemployment, habitation Official unemployment rate according to

EUROSTAT standards


General data (2)• Public social insurance agencies

Data on employment

• General remarks on these data

Used by the federal and the regional governments, public agencies (e.g. PES), social partners,

research institutes etc.

Basis for policy making in different fields: education, vocational training, labor market etc.


Data on Jobseekers (1)

• Persons registered at PES, recorded monthly• Key numbers

Stock of unemployment (job-search) Flow into unemployment (job-search) Outflow from unemployment (job-search) Duration of unemployment (job-search)

• Criteria (14) Region, gender, age, occupation, career aspiration, handicap, re-entry into the

labor market, job confirmation etc.



• PES middle-term plan (2006-2008) Prevention of youth from getting long-term

unemployed

Strategies for the re-entry of women into the labor market after a period of inactivity

• PES targets 2006 Not more than 8.857 youth must cross the

threshold of 6 months of unemployment



• PES targets 2006

25.425 women who have re-entered into the labor market have to be placed within 6 months

14.566 women who have re-entered into the labor market have to take part in vocational training measures within 6 months


Data on participants in labor market measures (1)

• Data on current participants (PES data)

Key numbers: Stock Inflow Outflow Duration

Criteria: The same as for jobseekers


Data on participants in labor market measures (2)

• Data on former participants (PES data connected with social insurance data)

Provided for every measure Status of participants at a specific date (e.g. 1, 3,

6, 12 months after the end of the measure): employed, unemployed with or without

benefit, other measure etc. Comparison with the respective date before entry into the measure

Effect can be exactly quantified


Data on vacancies (1)

Vacancies notified to PES, recorded monthly• Key numbers

Stock Inflow Outflow Duration

• Criteria (8) Region, required level of training, required occupation, filled by PES or not etc.



All vacancies filled (Social insurance data)• Key numbers

Regions Industries Occupations

• Comparison with the number of vacancies notified to PES Regions

Industries Occupations



• PES middle-term plan

Enhancement of the penetration rate (percentage of job placings achieved by PES) through:

Strategies for professional customer retention and acquisition of new customers

Marketing actions in order to support the acquisition of vacancies



• PES targets 2006

54.943 vacancies have to be acquired from new or inactive customers (enterprises)

290.873 vacancies have to be filled


Data on enterprises (1)

• Direct access to data provided by the public social insurance agency

• Data on all enterprises with employees

Number of vacancies in the current year

Number of vacancies notified to PES

Number of vacancies filled by PES

Reference values since 2000


Data on enterprises (2)

• These data are the basis for:

Regional acquisition plans Planning and realization of personal contacts with enterprises Agreements with enterprises on customer care (announcement of vacancies, filling of vacancies, promotion of job creation etc.)


Thank you for your attention!Dr. Werner Schelling

Senior adviser for international affairsArbeitsmarktservice Österreich

(Public Employment Service Austria)[email protected]

0043-5574-691-80103

mailto:[email protected]

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