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Vienna (pte016/02.04.2013/16:47) - There was an increase in almost 10 percent in the number of job seekers in Vienna last month according to figure by the job centre (Arbeitsmarktservice Wien, AMS).
Some 88.096 people were jobless in Vienna in March and a further 32.089 people were in training.
The hardest-hit are workers in the building sector, where an especially long winter saw many building projects in the civil engineering branch postponed due to frozen grounds.
As a consequence, there was an increase in 25 percent in the number of job seekers in the this area compared to the same period last year.
The increase is not as pronounced as in other sectors such as the retail sector or the tourism industry, where numbers of job seekers rose by 1.1 and 4.5 percent respectively.
Around 48.000 of the 88.096 job seekers in Vienna have a school leaving certificate as only qualification.
Vienna's AMS boss Petra Draxl said: "These people are less and less sought for on the job market. That's why the number of employees is rising but there is also a rise in the number of job seekers."
The "Qualification Plan Vienna 2020" initiative from the AMS and the association for the support of Viennese workers (Wiener ArbeitnehmerInnen Förderungsfonds, WAFF) was put in place to significantly reduce the number of job seekers with a school leaving certificate as highest qualification through extended support offers to employers.
There were 93.982 job seekers in Vienna in February, an increase of 4.3 percent on the same figures last year. According to the AMS, the number of people in training has risen by 21.2 percent to 31.985 this year.
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