unemployment

Jobseekers are unemployed if they
- not in employment or working less than 15 hours per week,
- seek employment subject to compulsory insurance and are thereby available to the mediation efforts; and
- have registered as unemployed with an employment agency, the job centre or the municipality.

Participants in active labour market policies are not considered unemployed. In addition, persons who:
- are in employment for more than a limited period of time (at least 15 hours per week),
- not allowed or able to work,
- limit their availability,
- have reached the age of 65,
- have not registered with the relevant employment agency, job centre or municipality for more than three months as a non-beneficiary,
- are ill incapacitated for work,
- are pupils, students and school leavers who are only looking for a training place and
- foreigners and their family members who are subject to a work permit, as well as asylum seekers without benefits, if the labour market is closed to them.