Research & Data

Labour-market data analysis with stated methodology and documented provenance.

EU hourly labour costs, €12.0 to €56.8: what the Eurostat measure counts

Eurostat's 2025 series puts hourly labour costs at €12.0 in Bulgaria and €56.8 in Luxembourg. What the figure includes, what it excludes, and why the ranking is not a cost comparison.

4 August 20267 min read

The job vacancy rate reads 2.6% and 2.8% for Germany in the same quarter

Eurostat publishes the job vacancy rate in an adjusted and an unadjusted version. For Q4 2025 they disagree by up to 0.2 points and reorder the country ranking.

25 July 20266 min read