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Job vacancy statistics
Updated 13/09/2024
The job vacancy rate (not seasonally adjusted) in the euro area[1] was 2.6 % in the second quarter of 2024, down from 2.9 % in the first quarter of 2024 and down from 3.1 % in the second quarter of 2023. In the EU, the job vacancy rate was 2.4 % in the second quarter of 2024, down from 2.6 % in the first quarter of 2024 and down from 2.9 % in the second quarter of 2023 as shown in Table 1 and Figure 4. More ...
Of all those persons in the European Union (EU) who were unemployed in 2022, 38.3 % remained unemployed in 2023, while 36.2 % moved into employment and 25.5 % left the labour force. Of all those initially in employment, 93.9 % remained in employment, while 1.8 % of those employed in 2022 were recorded as unemployed in 2023, and 4.2 % transitioned out of the labour force. Table 2 shows all transitions as a percentage from the initial labour market status. More ...
In 2023, around 1.3 million first-residence permits were issued for employment-related reasons, representing 33.8 % of all first residence permits issued. Family reasons accounted for 26.4 %, education reasons for 14.3 %, while other reasons, including international protection, accounted for 25.6 %. More ...
In the second quarter of 2024, 197.6 million persons in the EU were employed. The EU seasonally adjusted employment rate for people aged 20-64 years stood at 75.8 %, up from 75.6 % in the first quarter of 2024, (see Figure 1). For the same period, the seasonally adjusted total labour market slack in the EU, which is the unmet need for work, amounted to 23.8 million persons, which represented 11.0 % of the extended labour force in the second quarter of 2024 , down from 11.1 % in the first quarter of 2024. More ...
  1. Euro area (EA) - data presented here is for EA-20, after 1 January 2023.