{"id":822792,"date":"2026-03-13T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/822792\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:22:22","slug":"labour-market-flows-in-q4-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/822792\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour market flows in Q4 2025 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Between the third and the fourth quarter of 2025, 3.1 million <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Unemployment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> found a job (22.9% of all unemployed in the third quarter of 2025). During this period, 6.9 million (51.9%) remained unemployed and 3.4 million unemployed people (25.2%) transitioned <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php\/Glossary:Inactive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">out of the labour force<\/a>.<\/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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data<\/a> on labour market flows in the fourth quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/4187653\/23211930\/transitions-labour-market-status-q3-2025-q4-2025.jpg\/55791ba7-bd19-3e5c-2ce6-c24a883cfa40?t=1773243149727\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"transitions in labour market status in the EU, Q3 2025\/Q4 2025 (population aged 15-74, in millions). Infographic. Access to full dataset below. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/transitions-labour-market-status-q3-2025-q4-2025.jpg\" 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\/08fd1b5b-6fb4-4105-82f9-6a45ec1c5752?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2025-12-02T15:11:09Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/4187653\/23211930\/changes-labour-market-status-q4-2025.jpg\/54a69d91-d96d-9c0b-a53c-a9b35d5a9469?t=1773243150314\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Changes in the labour market status in the EU, Q4 2025 (% of initial status in Q3 2025, population aged 15-74). infographic. Access to full dataset below. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/changes-labour-market-status-q4-2025.jpg\" 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\/08fd1b5b-6fb4-4105-82f9-6a45ec1c5752?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2025-12-02T15:11:09Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">employment<\/a> in the third quarter of 2025, 2.5 million (1.2%) became unemployed in the fourth quarter of 2025, and 4.8 million (2.3%) 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 third quarter of 2025, 4.2 million (3.7%) moved into employment in the fourth quarter of 2025 and 3.8 million (3.3%) transitioned into unemployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between the third and the fourth quarter of 2025, 3.1 million unemployed people aged 15-74 in the EU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[64410,2000,299,5187,47118,64411],"class_list":["post-822792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-data-driven-news","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-lfs","tag-population-and-social-conditions"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116221375219328238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822792","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=822792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}