European Labour Market Tightness
How tight each European labour market is, per country per quarter: the job vacancy rate divided by the unemployment rate - the Beveridge tightness ratio. High = employers competing for scarce workers (a wage-pressure and inflation signal central banks watch); low = slack. Derived cleanly from Eurostat vacancy + unemployment; joins to wages, real-wage-growth and inflation on country code. Licence-clean and AI-training-safe.
- Source
- derived
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Quarterly
- Data through
- 2025-10-01
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- Labour tightness = job vacancy rate ÷ unemployment rate, per country × quarter
- High = tight (wage-pressure signal); low = slack - the labour-cycle read
- Every European country, quarterly; joins to wages, real-wage-growth, inflation
- Derived from Eurostat vacancy + unemployment; licence-clean & AI-training-safe
- Source: Eurostat (CC-BY-4.0)
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | Geo / country code (DE, FR, NL, …) | 100.0% | 14 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Quarter start | 100.0% | 72 |
| tightness_ratio | float | Job vacancy rate ÷ unemployment rate | 100.0% | 114 |
| unit | str | Unit | 100.0% | 1 |
| res_min | int | Native resolution (quarterly) | 100.0% | 1 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: derived (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("european-labour-tightness_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 14 zones
DE · EE · FI · HU · LT · LU · LV · NL · NO · PL · RO · SE · SI · SK
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