The number of unemployed in Germany fell to 2.317 million in November.
This means that 60,000 fewer people were unemployed in November than in October and 382,000 fewer than in November 2020, as the Federal Employment Agency announced on Tuesday in Nuremberg.
The federal agency stated the unemployment rate at 5.1 percent; in October it was 5.2 percent.
The rate is 0.8 points lower than in November 2020. For the November statistics, the Federal Agency took into account data that had been received by November 11th.
Movement with short-time work
The fourth wave of the corona pandemic has hardly had any impact on the labor market so far.
“The recovery of the last few months has continued on the labor market.
The consequences of the current, worrying corona situation in Germany have hardly been evident so far, "said the Chairman of the Board of the Federal Employment Agency (BA), Detlef Scheele.
However, there has been some movement in the area of short-time work.
Advertisements continue to come from the industry, which is plagued by delivery bottlenecks, but increasingly also from the hospitality industry, said the Federal Agency.
From November 1 to 24, reports were received for 104,000 people on short-time work.
That is around 10,000 more than the Federal Agency reported in October.
The actual utilization is usually lower.
Secure data are available for this up to September.
At that time, 795,000 people took advantage of short-time work.
At the peak of the first corona wave in April 2020, there were almost six million.