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D.M.a. Information on the economy of the Protectorate. Archive of the State Secretariat at Reithsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia. On 1 February 1940, 18037 unemployed persons were counted at the employment offices. On the same reference date of the previous year, 92,849 full-time workers were partly long-term unemployed, the number of persons employed was 1,648,574.This figure did not include total invisible unemployment.A significant proportion of these unemployed also belonged to social professions,which in the rest of Germany have been suffering from labour shortages for years. As early as July 1939, 23 employment offices with 85 branches were established and thus the necessary organizational foundations for a systematic labour use were established.Despite the seasonal lows and despite the changes in the economy of the Protectorate to the war economy, which coincided precisely with the construction, it was possible to achieve extremely favourable results. In addition to the use of technical workers in the Reich, it is possible to get a good picture of the contribution which was transferred from Czech workers to the Brotektorat by 2l February 1940. xM 74.251.689.70 K. By means of comprehensive measures by the German authorities, the former welfare prince was cleaned up and the care of the unemployed was entirely geared to the objectives of the labour input.Instead of the previous welfare laws, the new arrangements for the unemployment benefit,which adapt to the last earned income, are being introduced. The use of labour contributes to the cooling of the working population in the protectorate. The utilization of capacity in the bisen-making, iron and metalworking industry as well as in the machinery industry is 10%. The share of the old empire in the foreign trade of the Prétektorate : In January l939, the anteål of the ancient empire was 43% of the 1930-38 imports into the ČSR, the share of exports of the ČRS to the empire 39%, in August 1939 47% of the imports of the protectorate from the empire and 52% of the exports went to the kingdom. 39 Z 3 St. S. Tv M- 3/40.