Notices
Non Scooby Related Anything Non-Scooby related

unemployment in Germany

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old 05 February 2003, 10:58 AM
  #1  
what would scooby do
Scooby Senior
Thread Starter
 
what would scooby do's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: 52 Festive Road
Posts: 28,311
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

11% of workforce unemployed

4.6 million people... worse than us.
Old 05 February 2003, 11:12 AM
  #2  
TelBoy
Scooby Regular
 
TelBoy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: God's promised land
Posts: 80,907
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Question

According to who mate?

Today's official BBK figures quote it as 10.3%, up 62k in January, with a total of 4.27m people unemployed.

Still, not a pretty picture. A 4.5 year high.
Old 05 February 2003, 11:15 AM
  #3  
TelBoy
Scooby Regular
 
TelBoy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: God's promised land
Posts: 80,907
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Lightbulb

Ah, just relised, you've got the unadjusted numbers.

Although if you take the EU harmonised numbers, it's 8.6%.

Lies, damn lies and statistics, eh?
Old 05 February 2003, 12:53 PM
  #4  
camk
Scooby Regular
 
camk's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,764
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Thumbs down

Its not looking likely to improve in the near future either, I've a few friends out here who've taken ages to find anything else and they have been pretty qualified and Rhein-Main area is not the worst hit either.

regards
Cammy
Old 06 February 2003, 11:03 AM
  #5  
Amen Corner
Scooby Regular
 
Amen Corner's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: ożo
Posts: 9,064
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Thumbs down

more doom and gloom

Whereabouts are you Cammy?
Old 06 February 2003, 11:14 AM
  #6  
TelBoy
Scooby Regular
 
TelBoy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: God's promised land
Posts: 80,907
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Unhappy

Factory orders down 4.1% month on month.

Oooh, wasn't unification a great idea...???
Old 06 February 2003, 11:18 AM
  #7  
Amen Corner
Scooby Regular
 
Amen Corner's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: ożo
Posts: 9,064
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Exclamation

Still, it's good to see that the chancellor is really striking at the heart of these difficulties
Old 06 February 2003, 12:16 PM
  #8  
camk
Scooby Regular
 
camk's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,764
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Work in Wiesbaden, live near Koenigstein.

Cheers
Cammy
Old 06 February 2003, 12:30 PM
  #9  
XT
Scooby Regular
 
XT's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: under a project car
Posts: 8,606
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

Guess who has the top spot! Home sweet home(Greece)
11.1% unemployment
29.5% unemployment for people under 25.
And we are not even a big country.
I understand now why my father is constantly saying to me that there's no point starting a new business and that i should go and take over his place at our company.
Old 06 February 2003, 01:00 PM
  #10  
Wurzel
Scooby Senior
iTrader: (1)
 
Wurzel's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Wildberg, Germany/Reading, UK
Posts: 9,706
Likes: 0
Received 73 Likes on 54 Posts
Cool

It's alright boys, they are putting our taxes up this year to compensate.
Old 06 February 2003, 01:01 PM
  #11  
Mice_Elf
Scooby Regular
 
Mice_Elf's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 17,199
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Thumbs up

CamK = I know Wiesbaden...spent ages fixing faults in Ikea and WalMart there!
Old 06 February 2003, 01:05 PM
  #12  
camk
Scooby Regular
 
camk's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,764
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Post

I can see Walmart from my window
Old 06 February 2003, 01:36 PM
  #13  
Amen Corner
Scooby Regular
 
Amen Corner's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: ożo
Posts: 9,064
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Talking

Cammy,

I'm in Frankfurt, so the economic difficulties are particularly evident here. Bearing in mind that most of the ex-pats here are investment bankers or people working in IT in investment banks, I would guess that more than half the people I know here have lost their jobs in the last 12 months.




All times are GMT +1. The time now is 10:48 AM.