{"id":151134,"date":"2025-09-12T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151134\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:35:08","slug":"employment-rate-up-in-q2-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151134\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment rate up in Q2 2025 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In the second quarter of 2025, the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Employment_rate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">employment rate<\/a> of people aged 20-64 in the EU stood at 76.2%, up from 76.1% in the first quarter of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Labour_market_slack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Labour market slack<\/a> \u2013 all persons who have an unmet need for employment, including unemployed people \u2013 stood at 10.9% of the extended labour force aged 20-64 in the second quarter of 2025, stable compared with the first quarter of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">This information comes from <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/lfs\/database\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data on the labour market<\/a> in the second quarter of 2025 published today by Eurostat. This article presents only a handful of findings from the more detailed <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=EU_labour_market_-_quarterly_statistics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Statistics Explained article<\/a>.<br \/><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a5bed3e1-2a63-33b9-ac10-42cde507db49\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Labour market slack and employment rate in the EU, Q1 2013 to Q2 2025. Stack bar chart - Click below to see full dataset.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a5bed3e1-2a63-33b9-ac10-42cde507db49\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source datasets: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/66937e85-00db-4d38-a3fd-e28c7a598464?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lfsi_emp_q<\/a> and <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/8bcfa6da-80a9-432c-ab0a-540ecbe7eee8?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lfsi_sla_q<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Between the first and the second quarter of 2025, Latvia (+1.3 <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Percentage_point\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">percentage points (pp)<\/a>), Estonia (+0.8 pp) and Belgium (+0.7 pp) registered the highest increases in the employment rate among the 18 EU countries where employment rose. The employment rate remained stable in the Netherlands and Sweden, and decreased in 7 EU countries, with the biggest decreases recorded in Hungary (-0.5 pp) and Italy (-0.3 pp).<br \/><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/df3d6bd3-a448-db23-eadb-37a1d3da5f8c\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Change in employment rate, Q2 2025 compared with Q1 2025. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/df3d6bd3-a448-db23-eadb-37a1d3da5f8c\" 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\/1b1441d7-e54a-4c11-8e2a-09197fc38d2d?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lfsi_emp_q<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the second quarter of 2025, the employment rate of people aged 20-64 in the EU stood at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,4074,134,17241,11304],"class_list":{"0":"post-151134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-data-driven-news","10":"tag-jobs","11":"tag-lfs","12":"tag-population-and-social-conditions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}