Archive:Labour market in the light of the COVID 19 pandemic - quarterly statistics

The beginning of 2020 was marked by an outbreak of the 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 an outcome, the health crisis strongly affected the economic life and the labour market. The lock-down and other health-related measures implied a slowdown of the business activity. The consequences on the labour market might be considerable, among others: people might have lost their employment, hiring of staff could have been 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 stopped working for a time.

This online publication contains articles on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market, showing quarterly data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Its aim is to report on some specific aspects of the labour market that might have been impacted, such as the labour market slack, which refers to all unmet needs for employment (including the unemployment), the employment, the absences from work and the number of hours worked before and during the crisis. An additional article is dedicated to the methodological issues of sample size and non-response in the LFS quarterly data collection.

Presentation of the labour market in the EU - first quarter 2020

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3. Weekly absences from_work

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5. Hours of work in detail

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6. Employment

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7. Sample size and non-response

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