Labour market flows in Q2 2024

Between the first and the second quarter of 2024, 3.2 million unemployed people aged 15-74 in the EU (24.0% of all unemployed in the first quarter of 2024) found a job. During this period, 6.8 million (51.2%) remained unemployed and 3.3 million unemployed people (24.8%) transitioned out of the labour force.

The information comes from recently published data on labour market flows in the second quarter of 2024. This article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article.

Source dataset: lfsi_long_q 

The visual and table give an overview of all possible transitions and show the changes in labour market status. In the visual, the figures for employment, unemployment and out of the labour force refer to the number of people remaining in each status between the 2 quarters, while the arrows indicate the number of people moving from one status to another.

Source dataset: lfsi_long_q 

Of all those in employment in the first quarter of 2024, 2.6 million (1.2%) became unemployed in the second quarter of 2024, and 4.8 million (2.3%) transitioned out of the labour force.

From those counted as out of the labour force in the first quarter of 2024, 4.5 million (3.9%) moved into employment in the second quarter of 2024, and 3.7 million (3.2%) transitioned into unemployment.

For more information

• Statistics Explained article on labour market flow statistics in the EU 
• Thematic section on employment and unemployment (LFS)
• Database on the employment and unemployment (LFS)

Methodological notes

• The labour market flows published from 2021 onwards are based on the EU Labour force survey (EU-LFS) under the Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 on European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples. More details about the Regulation can be found in the Statistics Explained article.
• The figures are based on seasonally adjusted data.
• Metadata on labour market transitions.

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