Archive:Labour market in the light of the COVID 19 pandemic - quarterly statistics
The beginning of 2020 was marked by an outbreak of worldwide pandemic - COVID-19, leading almost all governments around the globe to take restrictive measures, of which the social distancing had a pivotal role. To prevent the spread of the virus and to ensure distancing of people, many businesses were temporarily shut down and many employed people confined at their homes.
As outcome, the health crisis strongly affected the economic life and the labour market. The lock-down and other health-related measures implied a decrease or a complete stop of the business activity. The consequences on the labour market might be considerable, among others: people might have lost their employment, recruitments could be canceled or frozen, unemployed people might have made a break in their job search for family reasons, employed people may have reduced their working hours or simply stop working for a time.
This online publication contains articles on the impact of the of the Covid-19 pandemic on the labour market showing quarterly data from the Labour Force Survey. The aim is to report on some specific aspects of the labour market that might be have impacted such as the entire unmet demand for employment including unemployed people but also other categories, the absences from work and their reasons, the number of hours worked before and during the crisis or the impact on the employment. An additional article is dedicated to methodological issues raised in the LFS quarterly data collection.