Vocational education and training - VET

Despite challenges resulting from the impact of Russia's unprovoked and unjustified aggression against Ukraine and high inflation, EU labour markets have shown remarkable resilience, achieving record-breaking employment levels and the lowest unemployment rates ever recorded. This report offers the latest insights on employment and social developments in Europe. Explore it to understand the implications of evolving skills demand, demographic changes, and the green and digital transitions on Europe's competitiveness and inclusivity.

The report examines the impacts of the crisis on global and regional trends in employment, unemployment and labour force participation, as well as on job quality, informal employment and working poverty. It also offers an extensive analysis of trends in temporary employment both before and during the COVID-19 crisis.

This year’s report provides a comprehensive assessment of how the labour market recovery has unfolded across the world in response to different country measures to tackle the pandemic. It analyses global patterns, regional differences and outcomes across economic sectors and groups of workers. The report also presents projections for the expected labour market recovery.