Vienna – Austria has the second-highest part-time employment fee amongst all 27 EU international locations. Within the first quarter of 2024, 31.8 p.c of all employed people within the nation labored part-time. Austria thus ranked behind the Netherlands with 43.7 p.c and forward of Germany (30.6 p.c) and Denmark (27.7 p.c), based on Statistics Austria on Thursday. The part-time employment fee is lowest in Bulgaria (1.8 p.c), Romania (3.1 p.c), and Croatia (4.1 p.c).
Primarily based on the microcensus labor drive survey, Statistics Austria has already calculated the part-time employment fee for the second quarter of 2024 in Austria, however no present knowledge is but out there for the opposite EU international locations. For the interval from April to June, 1.098 million or 51.6 p.c of all working ladies reported working part-time. Amongst males, 329,000 or 13.9 p.c have been employed part-time within the second quarter this 12 months. In comparison with the identical quarter of the earlier 12 months, the part-time employment fee based on Statistics Austria elevated by 0.5 share factors for males and by 1.0 share factors for girls. Thirty years in the past, the part-time employment fee for girls within the Alpine republic was solely 26 p.c and for males, it was 4 p.c.
To offer extra profession alternatives for moms and dads who’re on go away or working part-time, social companions have been demanding a big enlargement of childcare and early childhood schooling in Austria for years. The federal government in Vienna has promised 50,000 extra locations by 2030. Almost 60 p.c of the present kindergarten locations for 3- to 5-year-olds nationwide are suitable with full-time employment, based on the second monitoring report on early childhood schooling revealed by Statistics Austria in August. (09/05/2024)
