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
59.0%of people aged 15 and over in Brazil are in work, with an unemployment rate of 6.8%
41.6%of people aged 15 and over in Egypt are in work, with the same unemployment rate of 6.8%
83%of the differences in the working share across 182 economies come from how many people are in the labour force, not from unemployment
Earlier editions
- How the numbers workIn 62 of the 97 countries reporting for 2024, a young woman was likelier than a young man to be neither working, studying nor training. The gap reaches 30.6 points in Mali and 28.7 in India. The overall youth rate hides it.The share of 15 to 24 year olds who are not in employment, education or training is published for women and for men separately.
- How the numbers workIn India, unemployment is 13.5% among people with a degree and 2.3% among those with only basic schooling. In the United States that order is reversed. A low unemployment rate among the least educated is not always the good sign it looks like.In 2024 the unemployment rate among India’s degree-holders was 13.5%, nearly six times the 2.3% among people whose schooling stopped at the basic level.
- How the numbers workYouth unemployment is 4.4 times the national rate in Qatar and 1.9 times it in South Africa. The second country is the one with a problem.In 2024 Qatar reported youth unemployment of 0.6% against a national rate of 0.1%, a multiple of 4.41.
- How the numbers workNigeria reports less unemployment than Germany. Fewer than one Nigerian worker in seven earns a wage.In 2024 Nigeria’s unemployment rate was 3.0% and Germany’s was 3.4%, in the same source and the same year.
- How the numbers workThe Netherlands leads Europe in temporary work. Most of that lead arrived in the quarter the survey changed.In the first quarter of 2026, 26.0% of Dutch employees were on temporary contracts, the highest share in the European Union and 10.9 points clear of second place.
- How the numbers workA law changed who counts as unemployed in France.French unemployment reached 8.3% in the second quarter of 2026, its highest reading since the pandemic quarter of 2020.
- How the numbers workMay was announced as 172,000 jobs. It is now 63,000.The figure moved twice, each time inside a release about a different month, and neither move got a headline of its own.
- How the numbers workNobody is being fired. The door is just not opening.Stanford revised its early-career AI employment paper today.
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.