data just out from the German stats office
ILO
– yy +1.0%
– total employed 43.4m
"In November 2015, roughly 43.4 million persons resident in Germany
were in employment according to provisional calculations of the Federal
Statistical Office (Destatis). Hence the positive employment trend
continued. Compared with the same month a year earlier, the number of
persons in employment increased by 424,000, or 1.0%, in November. In
October 2015, the growth rate had been 0.9%. Roughly 1.9 million people
were unemployed in November 2015, 166,000 fewer than a year earlier.