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Employment

• More than 2.3 million people are employed directly in the manufacture of motor vehicles and components
• This corresponds to almost 7% of all manufacturing employment in the EU27… or 1% ot total employment in the enlarged EU
• In total, the automobile industry supports more than 12 million European jobs. Increasingly, these are highly skilled jobs.

This figure includes activities such as recycling, sales, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, road transport (passenger transport, taxi operations, freight transport), manufacture of tyres, the construction of highways and roads etc. Yet, many more jobs in other sectors depend on a healthy automobile industry. The data presented above do not report employment in raw material sector (e.g. steel, aluminium, glass, plastic), textile, driving schools, licensing activities, renting of automobiles, vehicle testing, insurance and financing, etc.

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Attachments

• Key Figures 2010_Employment
• Employment 2001-2007
• Economic Report - Full Year 2008

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