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Can Hungarians working in Austria bypass the government’s new border protection measures?
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Based on non-official information, this may affect tens of thousands of Hungarians working currently in Austria. Interestingly, their number went back to the level before the coronavirus crisis.
According to mfor.hu, the number of Hungarian citizens working in Austria was 98 thousand at the end of July. Based on the data of the Sozialversicherung.at, that is only a couple of thousands less than the absolute maximum of 2019 July, 101,449. As a result, the crisis curve of the Hungarians’ employment in Austria resembles a V meaning that the number of Hungarians working there decreased quickly after the outbreak of the epidemic but increased to the previous level soon after the virus’s spread stopped.
In the last month,
the number of Hungarians who started to work in Austria was 5,571
while in the case of the Germans that was only 2,200. This number is 2,400 in the case of the Slovaks and 1,200-1,500 in the case of the Romanian, Pole, Bosniak or Turkish employees.