Regional unterschiedliche Beschäftigungsentwicklung von Helfertätigkeiten

Abstract

"In this report, we analyse how employment has developed for unskilled and semi-skilled jobs, which generally do not require an apprenticeship training, from 2015 to 2019. As a result, the number of these jobs has increased at an above-average rate during this period. The positive employment trend was largely driven by foreign employees, especially by people from the eight main countries of origin of asylum who were able to take up an employment for the first time during the period we analysed. Unskilled and semi-skilled work has developed quite differently from state to state. The reason for this is different industry structures. There are some striking differences between eastern and western Germany and between cities and rural areas. While in western Germany, the number of un-skilled and semi-skilled work has increased significantly in the construction industry, in eastern Germany the number of occupations in these jobs has increased to a much higher extent in the transport and warehousing sector. In addition, in health care and social services and in other ser-vices the number of unskilled and semi-skilled work has increased much more in the eastern states than in western Germany. On the one hand, the Covid-19-pandemic starting in 2020 hit unskilled and semi-skilled jobs com-paratively hard, resulting in a 2.4 percent decline in employment from 2019 to 2020. On the other hand, the number of high skilled jobs in particular increased considerably. The reason is that some industries with a lot of unskilled and semi-skilled work were seriously affected by the Corona crisis, such as business-related services, catering and the manufacturing sector." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kaufmann, K., Kotte, V., Schwengler, B. & Wiethölter, D. (2021): Regional unterschiedliche Beschäftigungsentwicklung von Helfertätigkeiten. (IAB-Forschungsbericht 10/2021), Nürnberg, 54 p.