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IAB Labour Market Barometer

The IAB labour market barometer provides an outlook for the development of the German labour market in the next three months. In October 2024, component A (unemployment) stands at 98.4 points; component B (employment) stands at 102.1 points; the IAB labour market barometer averages both components and stands at 100.3 points. Values above 100 signal a positive outlook, values below 100 signal a negative outlook.
IAB Labour Market Barometer in Oktober 2024
Infographic: A line chart shows the IAB labour market barometer and its component A (unemployment) and component B (employment) as monthly time series from 2014 until 2024.
Time Series IAB Labour Market Barometer 2018 until Oktober 2024

Accessible table of the time series of the IAB Labor Market Barometer

IAB Labour Market Barometer October 2024: 100.3

  • Component A (unemployment): 98.4
  • Component B (employment): 102.1

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

  • 27 November 2024
  • 30 December 2024
  • 29 January 2025
  • 26 February 2025
  • 26 March 2025
  • 28 April 2025
  • 26 May 2025
  • 26 June 2025
  • 29 July 2025
  • 27 August 2025
  • 25 September 2025
  • 28 October 2025
  • 26 November 2025
  • 30 December 2025

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Period surveyed

2013 until Oktober 2024

Date of publication

2024/10/28

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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).

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