Accessible table of the time series of the European Labour Market Barometer
European Labour Market Barometer falls below 100 points in August
The European Labour Market Barometer recorded a 0.3-point decline in August, bringing it to 99.9 points. After four months in positive territory, the barometer has slipped back to just below the neutral 100-point mark. Consequently, the leading indicator of the European Network of Public Employment Services and the IAB has fallen back to the level seen at the start of the year, reversing a previous slight upward trend. "Energy prices are weighing on a continued recovery of the European labour markets," explains Enzo Weber, IAB head of forecast. The component forecasting unemployment registered its first decline in five months, dropping by 0.4 points to 99.7 points. The employment component continued its slow downward trend, falling slightly by 0.2 points to exactly 100 points.
The time series of the European Labour Market Barometer, including its components for all 18 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 18 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.
Participating countries include: Belgium (German-speaking community, Wallonia), Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and Cyprus.
Taken from: Labour market barometer helps predict (un)employment trends | European Social Fund Plus (europa.eu)
Release Dates
- 28 September 2026
- 28 October 2026
- 25 November 2026
- 30 December 2026
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Period surveyed
June 2018 until August 2026
Date of publication
2026/8/26
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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.