Asylum Seeker Unemployment Up 33 Percent Since 2016
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BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 25: A young woman from Syria (L) learns about job opportunities at the second annual jobs fair for refugees and migrants at the Estrel hotel and conference venue on January 25, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. The intiative brings together exhibitors from retail, the service industry, manufacturing, employment agencies and other branches who are recruiting people from among the hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees who arrived in Germany in recent years. Germany is taking active measures across both the public and private spheres to encourage the integration and employment of the newcomers. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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by Chris Tomlinson19 Feb 201781
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Asylum seeker unemployment numbers are up 33 percent in Austria despite the fact that the number of total migrants coming into the country has declined.
The number of unemployed asylum seekers has risen to 28,720 in Austria, and the capital Vienna is home to the vast majority of the unemployed migrants with two-thirds of asylum seekers in the city being without work. According to the Vienna employment Service (AMS), 67 percent registered with them to find work while many others were simply not available to work Kronen Zeitung reports.
AMS statistics note that the most qualified migrants tend to come from Syria, Iran and Iraq. Afghans seem to be the worst educated of the migrant groups with some 25 percent not having completed any schooling at all. Only 20 percent of the Afghan nationals had either university education or had graduated high school.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/02/19/asylum-seeker-unemployment-33-percent-since-2016/
