{"id":614746,"date":"2026-09-13T11:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T11:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/614746\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T11:30:47","slug":"labour-market-flows-in-q2-2026-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/614746\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour market flows in Q2 2026 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Between the first and the second quarter of 2026, 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> persons 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> moved into employment, representing 23.2% of all unemployed in the first quarter of 2026. During this period, 7.0 million (52.8%) remained unemployed and 3.2 million (24.0%) moved <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:People_outside_the_labour_force\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">out of the labour force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">These figures are taken 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 on labour market flows<\/a> in the second quarter of 2026. 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?title=Labour_market_flow_statistics_in_the_EU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Statistics Explained article on labour market flows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/labour-market-transitions-eu-q2-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transitions in labour market status in the EU, Q1 2026 - Q2 2026 (population aged 15-74, in millions). Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" data-fileentryid=\"24261051\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/labour-market-transitions-eu-q2-2026.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">\u00a0\u00a0Source 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 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/labour-market-changes-matrix-eu-q2-2026-jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Changes in the labour market status in the EU in Q2 2026  (% of initial status in Q1 2026, population aged 15-74). Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" data-fileentryid=\"24261033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/labour-market-changes-matrix-eu-q2-2026.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">\u00a0\u00a0Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/883519f1-1188-4c75-a30c-432eae9cda4f?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2025-12-02T15:11:34Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lfsi_long_q<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Of all people 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 first quarter of 2026, 2.5 million (1.2%) became unemployed in the second quarter of 2026, and 4.8 million (2.3%) moved out of the labour force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Of all people recorded as out of the labour force in the first quarter of 2026, 4.2 million (3.7%) entered employment in the second quarter of 2026 and 3.9 million (3.4%) became unemployed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between the first and the second quarter of 2026, 3.1 million unemployed persons aged 15-74 in the EU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,2508,184,85,46,7766,7767],"class_list":["post-614746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lfs","tag-population-and-social-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}