

Accessible table of the time series of the European Labor Market Barometer
European Labour Market Barometer suffers setback
The European Labour Market Barometer falls by 0.2 points to 99.5 points in April compared to the previous month. The leading indicator from the European Network of Public Employment Services and the IAB is turning negative again after two recent increases. The unemployment forecast component remains unchanged at 98.9 points, thus clearly negative. The employment forecast component is barely positive at 100.1 points, after a decline of 0.3 points compared to the previous month. "The European Public Employment Services still see no turnaround for the better in their labour markets," explains Enzo Weber, IAB head of forecast.
The time series of the European Labour Market Barometer, including its components for all 17 participating employment services, is available at www.iab.de/Presse/elmb-components. More information on the European Labour Market Barometer is available in our Magazine IAB-Forum: Launch of the “European Labour Market Barometer"
Run by the European Network of Public Employment Services and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the European Labour Market Barometer is based on a survey of the local or regional employment agencies in 17 PES services. A leading indicator of employment and unemployment in labour markets, the survey has been carried out jointly by the employment services and the IAB since June 2018. Agencies are asked to assess both the unemployment and employment outlook for the next three months, resulting in two components and one barometer for each PES. The European barometer is then derived from these national scores in the form of a weighted average.
Taken from: Labour market barometer helps predict (un)employment trends | European Social Fund Plus (europa.eu)
Release Dates
- 26 May 2025
- 26 June 2025
- 29 July 2025
- 27 August 2025
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- 28 October 2025
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Period surveyed
June 2018 until April 2025
Date of publication
2025/4/28
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The data on the European Labour Market Barometer are published under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Publications
- Leading indicators for unemployment and employment in Europe: Launch of the “European Labour Market Barometer“Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo (2020): Leading indicators for unemployment and employment in Europe: Launch of the 'European Labour Market Barometer'. (IAB-Kurzbericht, 21/2020), 4 p.
- Launch of the "European Labour Market Barometer"Weber, Enzo; Hutter, Christian (2020): Launch of the "European Labour Market Barometer". In: IAB-Forum, 20.10.2020, without pagination.