New measures of labour market attachment

In October 2011, Eurostat released 3 new indicators to supplement the unemployment rate. The 2010 results for these are reported in the accompanying Statistics in Focus publication entitled 8.5 million underemployed part-time workers in the EU-27 in 2010.

This report examines these indicators in greater depth and from a methodological viewpoint, some results being of an experimental nature. In particular, it presents the new indicators as ‘halos’ around unemployment and compares them to the ILO labour statuses in terms of their relative attachment to employment and the labour market.