{"id":419091,"date":"2025-09-12T18:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419091\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:24:16","slug":"labour-market-flows-in-q2-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419091\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour market flows in Q2 2025 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Between the first and the second quarter of 2025, 3.1 million <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Unemployment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unemployed<\/a> people aged 15-74 in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU<\/a> (23.8% of all unemployed in the first quarter of 2025) found a job. During this period, 6.8 million (51.9%) remained unemployed and 3.2 million unemployed people (24.3%) transitioned <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php\/Glossary:Inactive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out of the labour force<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">This information comes from recently published <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/data\/database?node_code=lfsi_long_q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data on labour market flows<\/a> in the second quarter of 2025. The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php\/Labour_market_flow_statistics_in_the_EU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statistics Explained article on labour market flow statistics in the EU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/52635e21-3394-a1e8-0b2b-21e9d94c26b2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transitions in labour market status in the EU, Q1 2025 - Q2 2025, population aged 15-74, in millions. Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/52635e21-3394-a1e8-0b2b-21e9d94c26b2\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/f94e83d7-daa1-473d-acf4-c7e02fded68e?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lfsi_long_q<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The visual and the 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 two quarters, while the arrows indicate the number of people moving from one status to another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/85cb9d55-3f42-ab37-5267-c9e5ecb1ad24\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Changes in the labour market status in the EU in Q2 2025, % of initial status in Q1 2025, population aged 15-74. Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/85cb9d55-3f42-ab37-5267-c9e5ecb1ad24\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/lfsi_long_q\/default\/table?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lfsi_long_q<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Of all those in <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Employed_person_-_LFS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">employment<\/a> in the first quarter of 2025, 2.4 million (1.2%) became unemployed in the second quarter of 2025, and 4.5 million (2.2%) transitioned out of the labour force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">From those counted as out of the labour force in the first quarter of 2025, 4.3 million (3.7%) moved into employment in the second quarter of 2025 and 4 million (3.5%) transitioned into unemployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between the first and the second quarter of 2025, 3.1 million unemployed people aged 15-74 in the EU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,64410,1700,47118,64411,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-419091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-data-driven-news","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-lfs","12":"tag-population-and-social-conditions","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115192730114093349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}