Wiesbaden in focus: increasing unemployment despite good employment opportunities!

Wiesbaden in focus: increasing unemployment despite good employment opportunities!

The Hessian state capital Wiesbaden is faced with an unemployment rate of 8.3 % in February 2025. This number is remarkably high, especially compared to other cities in the Rhine-Main area. Only Offenbach has a higher quota with 9.8 %. In cities such as Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Mainz, the quota is significantly lower - 7 %, 6.2 %and 5.7 %. Despite the current situation, unemployment remained relatively stable compared to the previous month and the previous year. This is reported by the FAZ

The challenge for Wiesbaden is reinforced by the city's economic structure. Large employers are mainly active in the areas of public administration, healthcare and financial and insurance services. The managing director of the Wiesbaden employment agency, Stephen Spieker, emphasizes that the need for helper jobs is low, which makes well -trained specialists in this region better opportunities on the job market. Fabian Lauer from the Wiesbaden Chamber of Commerce and Industry urgently demands more commercial space to improve the labor market.

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A disturbing statistics shows that 70 % of the unemployed citizens of citizens in Wiesbaden do not have a professional qualification and that 25 % even have no school leaving certificate. In contrast, only 13 % of employees in Wiesbaden have no professional qualification. The Wiesbaden job center tries to qualify people, but has to fight with considerable difficulties, since many cannot make up for a professional qualification. A most recent project called "Come on" was launched to move 420 citizens' places for advice. 234 people were successfully achieved.

In December 2023, the number of unemployed in Wiesbaden was 12,911, which corresponds to an increase of 1,332 people (11.5 percent) compared to the previous year. The unemployment rates also rose in other cities in the region such as Darmstadt and Offenbach. The economic and labor market barometer also shows that the price-adjusted gross domestic product was 0.4 percent below the previous year's value in the fourth quarter of 2023. The IFO business climate index fell by 2.8 percent in December compared to the previous year, which further illustrates the challenges on the labor market. More information on this can be found on the website of the city of Wiesbaden

Despite the existing problems, there are also bright spots: in June 2023, a total of 115,228 employees subject to social security contributions worked in the city, which corresponds to an increase of 1,157 people (1.0 percent) compared to the previous year. Even if this number is higher than the number of employees in the pre-Corona year 2019, the high unemployment rate remains a challenge that Wiesbaden must actively counter