Migration of Hungarians to Germany to slow down

The German labour market is in excellent shape despite the number of refugees Germany took in and the constant flow of Eastern-Europeans, says privatbankar.hu. The number of Hungarians is increasing, but the increase is slower than earlier. It is already known how many Hungarians were unemployed in Germany in April.

The German press reports that the German labour market is still in an excellent shape. In the last 25 years this April has the fewest unemployed, only 2.569 million people were looking for job, which is less by 175 thousands than in the previous year. The unemployment rate is 5.8.

The following report about the Eastern-European employees – more precisely about those 15 countries which got into the German labour market during the many-stage enlargement of the EU – was published recently. Those 15 countries contain the seven countries joining the EU with Hungary, namely the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain), Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia.

According to the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit), 99,397 Hungarian citizens were employed in Germany in February, which is a little less than in its peak in November (100,836 people), but by hundreds more than in the previous month. (In the winter, in December and January it is usual that the number of employees decreases seasonally.) This is by 8,742 more than it was last year, which shows a slowing tendency: there has been periods when in two following years the number of new employees was over 15 thousands.

The following chart shows the number of Hungarian employees in Germany with the white line representing the Hungarians, while the black line representing all the 15 mentioned countries. The horizontal axis stands for the months, while the vertical axis on the left represents the number of Hungarians and on the right the number of people from the 15 countries altogether.