Analysis from the live market
The Market Desk
What the job market is doing, from BabZituna’s own listings when they can carry the question and from primary statistics when they cannot. Every figure names its source, and every piece ends with what it means for you. About the desk
Latest analysis
9.35%of a new job’s gross pay kept by a single jobseeker leaving benefit in Luxembourg, 2025
46.24%the same in Ireland, the largest share of the 27 member states
25.5%the same across the European Union, where the other 74.5% goes in tax, contributions and benefits that stop
Earlier editions
- Across economiesSpain has 480,000 more people in work; Germany 215,000 fewerIn the year to the second quarter of 2026, Spain gained 480,000 people in work and Germany lost 215,000, while the EU as a whole added 1,021,000.
- Across economiesFilipino women earn more, until you look job by jobThe Philippines reports an hourly gap of minus 15.3%, the average woman ahead. Inside the nine job families of the same survey, men are paid more in seven.
- Across economiesSpain over-educates three times as many workers as CzechiaSame income per person, one survey each, and 30.1% of Spain’s employed hold more education than their job needs against 10.8% of Czechia’s.
- Across economiesDisabled Swedes are three times as active as disabled LithuaniansSame survey, same year: 9.7% of Lithuanians with a disability are in the labour force, against 27.7% of Swedes. Without a disability, Lithuania leads, 66.3% against 57.1%.
- Across economiesPoland has sixty times South Korea’s share of long unemploymentPoland and South Korea report 3.0% and 2.8% unemployment. Of Poland’s unemployed, 28.8% had been looking for a year or more in 2025; of South Korea’s, 0.5%.
- Across economiesTen times as many Koreans as French work past 65In 2025, 40.7% of South Koreans aged 65 or over were in work, and 4.2% of the French. Across 160 economies, income sorts who still works after 65; it does not sort who works before it.
- Across economiesIn Jordan, two employees in five are paid below two thirds of the national median. In Portugal, one in twenty-five.In its latest reported year, 40.8% of Jordan’s employees earned less than two thirds of Jordan’s own median hourly pay, the highest share of 103 economies; in Portugal the share was 4.0%, the lowest.
- Across economiesNearly nine in ten of India’s workers hold an informal job. In France, three in a hundred do.In 2025, 87.2% of India’s employed held an informal job on the ILO’s harmonised definition, the 22nd highest share of 106 countries; in France the share was 3.4%, the 95th.
What the desk tracks
Every piece is written from these live streams — open them yourself; they are the same pages we read.
- Salaries by cityMedian advertised pay across 41 hubs, in local currency, refreshed continuously.
- Remote shareHow much of each market is flagged remote-eligible — and where the global pool surfaces.
- Skills in demandWhat employers actually name in listings, recognised against the ESCO vocabulary.
- Who is hiringThe employers holding the most live roles in the aggregated supply, right now.