Accessible table of the time series of the IAB Labor Market Barometer
IAB labour market barometer March 2024: 100.7
- Component A (unemployment): 98.5
- Component B (employment): 102.9
General information
The IAB labour market barometer provides good guidance for the labour market development in the near future, more precisely in the next three months. It is based on the expertise in all German employment agencies. Every month, their top-level staff is asked to assess the development of local unemployment and employment over the next three months. The IAB labour market barometer includes - in addition to component A that signals the unemployment development - a component B that signals the employment development. The IAB labour market barometer is the mean value of both partial indicators. It provides a more comprehensive picture of the expected development of the German labour market in the short term. The IAB labour market barometer is regularly released towards the end of month. Its scale goes from 90 (i.e. very negative outlook) to 110 (i.e. very positive outlook).
Release Dates
- 31 May 2024
- 31 June 2024
- 29 July 2024
- 28 August 2024
- 25 September 2024
- 28 October 2024
- 27 November 2024
- 30 December 2024
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Period surveyed
2013 until April 2024
Date of publication
2024/4/26
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Rights of use
The data on the IAB Labour Market Barometer are published under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Publications
- IAB-Prognose 2021/2022: Arbeitsmarkt auf ErholungskursFuchs, Johann; Gartner, Hermann; Hellwagner, Timon; Hummel, Markus; Hutter, Christian; Wanger, Susanne; Weber, Enzo; Zika, Gerd (2021): IAB-Prognose 2021/2022: Arbeitsmarkt auf Erholungskurs. (IAB-Kurzbericht, 20/2021), Nürnberg, 12 p.
- Leading indicator for unemployment and employment in Germany: IAB labour market barometer 2.0Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo; Schmidt, Katrin; Delfs, Silke (2016): Leading indicator for unemployment and employment in Germany : IAB labour market barometer 2.0. (IAB-Kurzbericht, 09/2016), Nürnberg, 6 p.
- Constructing a new leading indicator for unemployment from a survey among German employment agenciesHutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo (2015): Constructing a new leading indicator for unemployment from a survey among German employment agencies. In: Applied Economics, Vol. 47, No. 33, pp. 3540-3558.
- Constructing a new leading indicator for unemployment from a survey among German employment agenciesHutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo (2013): Constructing a new leading indicator for unemployment from a survey among German employment agencies. (IAB-Discussion Paper, 17/2013), Nürnberg, 30 p.
- A new leading indicator for unemployment: Kick-off for the IAB labor market barometer.Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo; Schmidt, Katrin; Delfs, Silke (2013): A new leading indicator for unemployment: Kick-off for the IAB labor market barometer. (IAB-Kurzbericht, 20/2013), Nürnberg, 8 p