The number of jobs has risen in Germany in the past fifteen years. The vast majority of these workers are dependent on the money, others out of practice in addition to jobs for the fun of it. the
more and more people in Germany have a part-time job. The number of multiple employees within a period of 15 years from almost 1.4 to about 3.4 million in the middle of last year. This is evident from the answer of the German Federal employment Agency, on a request of the Left in the Bundestag, the news Agency dpa.
The majority (2.9 million) combine an employment subject to social insurance with at least a mini-job. In less than 330 000 cases a minimum of two Jobs to be combined.
The labour market policy spokeswoman for the left party, Sabine Zimmermann, who has made the request, said the dpa: “For more and more Workers, the income from a Job enough.” The vast majority of the 3.4 million workers “are likely to have out of pure financial Distress for more than a Job, and not voluntarily.”
The Institute for labour market and occupational research (IAB), the research Institute of the Federal employment Agency, pointed out that, in addition to jobbers in average in your main job much less deserved than people without a job on the side. According to a study by the Institute about 570 euros to get in addition to jobbers in their main employment in the average month less than people with only one Job. The pointed to the fact that many of the rely in addition to a jobber on the extra money.
An IAB study shows that, besides financial motives, other reasons for a second job to Supplement the main job activities, the fun or Prestige. “Examples of the University Professor, as a consultant in business or politics, or the Assembly line workers, are in the evening against payment concerts with the Band,” says the IAB researcher Enzo Weber.
