Labour market transitions - quarterly data - lfsi_long_q

Data - Eurostat

Author

François Geerolf

Info

Last observation: Quarterly: 2026Q1 (N = 7,344)

First observation: Quarterly: 2003Q2 (N = 216)

Last data update: 11 aoû 2026, 18:22. Last compile: 12 aoû 2026, 00:55

Structure

Unemployment to Employment Transition Rate

France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Portugal

Code

lfsi_long_q |>
  filter(geo %in% c("FR", "ES", "IT", "PL", "PT"),
         sex == "T",
         s_adj == "SA",
         unit == "PC_UNE",
         indic_em == "U_E") |>
  quarter_to_date() |>
  mutate(values = values/100) |>
  left_join(colors, by = c("Geo" = "country")) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = values, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags +
  scale_x_date(breaks = as.Date(paste0(seq(2000, 2100, 2), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Unemployed moving into employment (% of unemployed)") +
  scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent_format(accuracy = 1))

Latest Quarter: Labour Market Fluidity

France

Code

latest_q_fr <- lfsi_long_q |>
  filter(geo == "FR",
         sex == "T",
         s_adj == "SA",
         unit != "THS_PER",
         !is.na(values)) |>
  summarise(m = max(time)) |>
  pull(m)

lfsi_long_q |>
  filter(geo == "FR",
         sex == "T",
         s_adj == "SA",
         unit != "THS_PER",
         time == latest_q_fr) |>
  mutate(values = values/100) |>
  select(indic_em, Indic_em, values) |>
  arrange(-values) |>
  print_table_conditional()

indic_em	Indic_em	values
E_E	Transition employment - employment	0.958
I_I	Transition outside the labour force - outside the labour force	0.926
U_U	Transition unemployment - unemployment	0.533
U_E	Transition unemployment - employment	0.269
U_I	Transition unemployment - outside the labour force	0.198
I_E	Transition outside the labour force - employment	0.037
I_U	Transition outside the labour force - unemployment	0.037
E_I	Transition employment - outside the labour force	0.022
E_U	Transition employment - unemployment	0.020
I_E	Transition outside the labour force - employment	NA
I_I	Transition outside the labour force - outside the labour force	NA
I_U	Transition outside the labour force - unemployment	NA
U_E	Transition unemployment - employment	NA
U_I	Transition unemployment - outside the labour force	NA
U_U	Transition unemployment - unemployment	NA
E_E	Transition employment - employment	NA
E_I	Transition employment - outside the labour force	NA
E_U	Transition employment - unemployment	NA
U_E	Transition unemployment - employment	NA
U_I	Transition unemployment - outside the labour force	NA
U_U	Transition unemployment - unemployment	NA
E_E	Transition employment - employment	NA
E_I	Transition employment - outside the labour force	NA
E_U	Transition employment - unemployment	NA
I_E	Transition outside the labour force - employment	NA
I_I	Transition outside the labour force - outside the labour force	NA
I_U	Transition outside the labour force - unemployment	NA

France

Table

Code

lfsi_long_q |>
  filter(geo == "FR",
         sex == "T",
         s_adj == "SA",
         unit == "THS_PER",
         time %in% c("2015Q2", "2021Q2", "2019Q2", "2017Q2")) |>
  filter(!is.na(values)) |>
  
  select(indic_em, Indic_em, time, values) |>
  spread(time, values) |>
  print_table_conditional()

indic_em	Indic_em	2015Q2	2017Q2	2019Q2	2021Q2
E_E	Transition employment - employment	25265	25565	26004	26288
E_I	Transition employment - outside the labour force	554	553	601	644
E_U	Transition employment - unemployment	524	447	434	441
I_E	Transition outside the labour force - employment	448	617	499	705
I_I	Transition outside the labour force - outside the labour force	16609	16882	17132	16835
I_U	Transition outside the labour force - unemployment	672	723	628	706
U_E	Transition unemployment - employment	643	638	599	630
U_I	Transition unemployment - outside the labour force	545	562	567	581
U_U	Transition unemployment - unemployment	1867	1640	1411	1233

EE, II

Code

lfsi_long_q |>
  filter(geo == "FR",
         sex == "T",
         s_adj == "SA",
         unit != "THS_PER",
         indic_em %in% c("E_E", "I_I")) |>
  filter(!is.na(values)) |>
  
  select(indic_em, Indic_em, time, values) |>
  quarter_to_date() |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + xlab("") + ylab("") +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = values/100, color = Indic_em)) +
  scale_color_manual(values = viridis(3)[1:2]) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = as.Date(paste0(seq(1960, 2100, 1), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  theme(legend.position = c(0.3, 0.85),
        legend.title = element_blank()) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 100, 1),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(acc = 1))

Italy

EE, II

Code

lfsi_long_q |>
  filter(geo == "IT",
         sex == "T",
         s_adj == "SA",
         unit != "THS_PER",
         indic_em %in% c("E_E", "I_I")) |>
  filter(!is.na(values)) |>
  
  select(indic_em, Indic_em, time, values) |>
  quarter_to_date() |>
  ggplot() + theme_minimal() + xlab("") + ylab("") +
  geom_line(aes(x = date, y = values/100, color = Indic_em)) +
  scale_color_manual(values = viridis(3)[1:2]) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = as.Date(paste0(seq(1960, 2100, 1), "-01-01")),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  theme(legend.position = c(0.3, 0.85),
        legend.title = element_blank()) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = 0.01*seq(0, 100, 1),
                     labels = scales::percent_format(acc = 1))