Unemployment in Rhineland-Palatinate increased in 2023

Federal Employment Agency - Unemployment in Rhineland-Palatinate increased in 2023

Unemployment in Rhineland-Palatinate rose both in December and in 2023 as a whole. 113,100 women and men were unemployed in the last month of the year, 1,700 or 1.5 percent more than four weeks earlier, according to the Regional Directorate of the Federal Employment Agency in Saarbrücken on Wednesday. The unemployment rate was 5.0 percent, compared to 4.9 percent in November and 4.6 percent in December 2022.

Unemployment rose more sharply than in December over the year as a whole. 110,700 people were registered as unemployed in 2023. That was 8,200 or 8.0 percent more than in 2022. "The labor market developed less favorably last year than in the two years before," said Heidrun Schulz, head of the regional directorate. There was an increase in almost all groups of people, with a particularly significant rise of around 18% for people with a foreign passport. The number of vacancies fell by around nine percent to 2023.

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1. The Federal Employment Agency's Regional Directorate in Mainz, alongside its counterpart in Saarbrücken, oversees unemployment statistics in various regions.
2. Despite the overall increase in unemployment in Rhineland-Palatinate, the number of unemployed men still showed a lower unemployment rate compared to women in 2023.
3. The Federal Employment Agency will be crucial in addressing the rising unemployment rate in regions like Rhineland-Palatinate, aiming to reduce this trend in 2024.
4. Although the unemployment rate in Saarbrücken was less affected, both cities in Rhineland-Palatinate have experienced an uptick in unemployment from 2022 to 2023.
5. The Federal Employment Agency's efforts to integrate migrant workers into the German labor market have shown positive results, but the unemployment rate for foreign nationalities remains higher than the national average.

Source: www.stern.de