{"id":876444,"date":"2026-10-09T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876444\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:34:14","slug":"employment-falling-in-large-parts-of-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876444\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment falling in large parts of Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FILE<\/a> FILE PHOTO – The Gelsenkirchen office of the German Employment Agency. (is associated with: \u00abEmployment falling in large parts of Germany\u00bb) Caroline Seidel-Di\u00dfmannel\/dpa <\/p>\n

Nuremberg, Germany – A contraction in employment across much of Germany is likely to continue next year, according to a forecast released on Friday by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). <\/p>\n

A marginal increase in employment is expected in just three of Germany’s 16 federal states: Berlin (+0.7%), Brandenburg and Lower Saxony (both +0.1%), according to the Nuremberg-based institute. <\/p>\n

In all other states, the regional employment forecast points downward – primarily due to demographics. Fewer people are available to the labour market as high-birth-rate generations retire and fewer foreign workers migrate to Germany. <\/p>\n

According to the IAB forecast, the sharpest drops in employment will be recorded in Saarland (1.3%), Thuringia (0.7%), Bremen and Saxony-Anhalt (both 0.6%). <\/p>\n

At the same time, unemployment is also set to fall in many places – most sharply in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern by 3.9% and in Thuringia by 1.8%, the forecast adds. <\/p>\n

However, the labour market researchers see no reason to celebrate. “Despite improved economic prospects, a general turnaround is not yet visible on regional labour markets,” said the IAB’s Anja Rossen. <\/p>\n

Industrial locations hit <\/p>\n

The trend is unfavourable in areas where the labour market is heavily dependent on industry. The manufacturing sector is struggling with severe structural problems. <\/p>\n

The state with the highest unemployment rate is currently Bremen at 11.3%, while the lowest is Bavaria with 4.1%. <\/p>\n

According to Federal Employment Agency chief Andrea Nahles, the labour market tends to react sluggishly to economic shifts. <\/p>\n

It takes time for an economic downturn to become noticeable in the labour market – and conversely, it also takes a while for the labour market to respond once the economy picks up, Nahles said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE PHOTO – The Gelsenkirchen office of the German Employment Agency. (is associated with: \u00abEmployment falling in large…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[5097,28,122,101,939,2993,2994,32455,2995,134,932,32456,20112,147,9323,1170,1666,6480,2996,2997,923,19533,3733,32457],"class_list":["post-876444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-401k","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-financial-information","tag-investing","tag-investment-tools","tag-investor","tag-jobs","tag-market-news","tag-mortgage","tag-mutual-funds","tag-personal-finance","tag-quote","tag-real-estate","tag-retirement","tag-stock","tag-stock-research","tag-stock-valuation","tag-stocks","tag-suze-orman","tag-tax","tag-track-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}