Report on the Walloon Economy 2017 (Wallonie Entreprendre)

Summary

• Since the crisis, the average annual growth rate of Walloon GDP does not exceed 1%.p.19
• Employment growth is estimated to have accelerated from 0.1% in 2014 to about 0.8% in 2015 and 2016, a net creation of about 10,000 jobs per year.p.26
• Between June 2014 and June 2015, employment among ONSS-registered employees rose by a net 5,109, with 52,850 jobs created and 47,741 lost.p.28
• In 2008, Wallonia recorded more than 23,000 net job creations.p.20
• Temporary unemployment affected 64,027 blue-collar workers on average in 2009 and 55,908 in 2010, against about 40,000 in earlier years.p.23
• In 2014-2015, 136,024 employees started a new job in Wallonia while 130,695 left or lost their job.p.28

Key insights

1. Wallonia lost 5,800 manufacturing jobs in 2009 while non-market services created 3,000 jobs.p.21
2. Employment fell by 5,400 units in 2013, or -0.4%, against -0.3% in 2009.p.25
3. The Activa measure concerned on average 9,551 workers in Wallonia in 2010 and 26,261 in 2011.p.25
4. Public employment fell by a net 5,560 units in 2011 and 1,300 in 2012.p.26
5. DynaMreg statistics cover ONSS-registered employees, who represent 90% of salaried employees.p.27