There are currently approximately 141,000 people looking for work in Vienna. The director of the Vienna Public Employment Service (AMS), Winfried Göschl, views developments on the Viennese labor market in recent years as very positive. But the asylum seekers pose a challenge: “Most of them cannot read or write.” He also believes that the distribution between Vienna and the federal states is not optimal, he says in an interview on krone.tv with Jürgen Winterleitner.
Recently there was a short-term increase in unemployment in Vienna during the corona pandemic. “After that there was a very positive development with a strong increase in employment and falling unemployment,” says Göschl. Employment will continue to rise sharply in 2023. But not only that: unemployment will rise again in 2023, says the AMS boss.
“Most people cannot read and write sufficiently”
A major challenge is the placement of refugees or asylum seekers in Vienna: “Most immigrants do not speak German.” According to the Viennese AMS boss, the solution to this is a variety of measures: “We must ensure that these people can catch up on primary education as quickly as possible. This not only concerns knowledge of German, but also mathematics and other basic skills – such as reading and writing.
Long-term unemployed people often have an ‘educational disadvantage’
However, Göschl not only sees shortages in primary education and thus difficulties in placement on the labor market, not only among people seeking asylum or refugees: “Many of the people who are registered have clear problems with primary education.” Long-term unemployed people in particular are often very “educationally disadvantaged”. It is an increasing challenge to make them suitable for training. Göschl: “There is a lot to do in Vienna. Not only in Vienna, but especially in Vienna.”
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Source: Krone
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