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Table 1

Ratio of the number of people becomlng unemployed to the total number of employed and unemployed In a year

			1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985
all	people		9 %	ii %	14 %	15 %	15 %	15 %
15	to 19 years	old	8 %	7 %	13 %	17 %	19 %	21 %
20	to 24 years	old	12 %	15 %	20 %	22 %	22 %	23 %

Young people are also in Austria morę subject to the reduction of employees in the whole economy because, in a recession, entrepreneurs try to reduce the labour force to the so-called "core^M of the personnel.

The function of the "border staff^M is in practice that of a potential for adjustments to changes in demand. Young people, especially those Who are less ąualified, often belong to that group because they are not yet integrated into the operational chains of mobility and promotion. The growing number of young people afflicted by unemployment and the declining chances to get a Job again confirm the hypothesis that Staff reduction always affects those people most who have worked in a firm for a relatively short time: Whoever comes last has to go first. (Pichelmann/Wagner 1984b, p.200).

The longer the crisis of the labour market lasts, the morę the core of the personnel is also affected by Staff reduction.