Employment trends in the Free State of Bavaria 2012 : part I: Representative analyses on the basis of the IAB Establishment Panel 2012

Abstract

"In comparison to the previous year, the number of employees, extrapolated by means of the IAB Establishment Panel in Bavaria, has risen by 1.2 per cent. What is remarkable is not only a sharp increase from 2001 to 2012 in the service sector at the same time as drop in the production industry but above all the way very small establishments have developed. Here, the total employment dropped by 0.5 per cent and employment subject to social security contributions by 18.8 per cent.<br>Both in the long and in the short term there has been a strong expansion of special forms of employment, above all a strong increase in part-time employment including particularly part-time employment subject to social security contributions, but to a marginal extent also in minijobs. As already seen in the survey of 2011, the current survey of 2012 shows a very good, and at most a slightly cloudy, economic situation in the Free State of Bavaria (although, however, this assertion relates above all to figures for the previous financial year). The 'degree of flexibilisation' calculated by means of the Establishment Panel (share of part-time work, including midi-part-time and mini-jobs, plus full-time midi-jobs plus temporary plus temporary agency work of all employees) rose in Bavaria between 2001 and 2011 from 24 to 33 per cent and then in 2012 to 37 per cent (western Germany: 39%). 7 per cent of Bavarian companies indicated that a company succession was expected 'in the foreseeable future'. The form in which this succession would take place was not yet clarified in roughly a fifth of the cases. In about half, a family succession was planned; in about 20 per cent a sale. The share of establishments and individual offices that were involved in training dropped in 2011/12 by 2 per cent to 30 per cent. Nevertheless the number of trainees increased from the previous year by roughly 4,000 (extrapolated). Commitment to training dropped particularly in very small establishments. The share of Bavarian establishments and offices in which for the first half of 2012 at least one employee was being supported with further in-house training was 49 per cent. In comparison to the year 2001 (39%) and also to the year 2011 (45%) that is a clear increase. The share of employees who were included in further in-house training rose between 2001 and 2012 from 19 to 30 per cent. In the western and eastern parts of Germany the further training quota is higher, at 31 and 35 per cent respectively. The further training quota of women corresponds to that of men. The further training quota is the smallest in very small establishments (22%)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)

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Kistler, E. & Trischler, F. (2013): Beschäftigungstrends im Freistaat Bayern 2012. Teil I: Repräsentative Analysen auf Basis des IAB-Betriebspanels 2012. (Beschäftigungstrends im Freistaat Bayern 2012,1), Stadtbergen, 65 p.