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Unemployment benefits

The 2010 annual average for the number of persons receiving unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance was 229 135. Due to the strong increase in unemployment since the beginning of the 1980s, the number of people receiving benefits has also undergone a huge increase during the last 25 years, with double-digit rises particularly notable at the beginning of the respective decades (1981-1983, 1990-1991 and 2002). The number of people receiving unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance rose from 41 350 in 1980 to 201 175 in 1993 and then to an all-time high in 2009 (+24% annual percentage change) because of the global economic and financial crisis. 57% of beneficiaries in 2010 received unemployment benefit, 43% unemployment assistance. In 1980 the ratio was 84% to 16%, i.e. as unemployment rose, the percentage of persons receiving unemployment assistance increased significantly more sharply than that of persons receiving unemployment benefit. The ratio in terms of male/female beneficiaries also shifted. In 1980 slightly more women than men drew benefits (51% against 49%), while by 2010 unemployment benefit or unemployment assistance was received by men and women in the ratio of 60% to 40%.

The average amount per day in 2010 was €27.62 in case of unemployment benefit and €21.20 in case of unemployment assistance. The gender-specific difference has decreased over time, but because of continuing differences in earnings, the average daily amount for women is still significantly lower than that for men: in 2010 the daily amount received by women was 81.6% (unemployment benefit) resp. 80.7% (unemployment assistance) of that received by men, while in 1990 the figure was just 75.3% (unemployment benefit) resp.  76.8% (unemployment assistance).

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