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Employment and Social Developments in Europe review shows diverse impact of COVID-19 crisis

2021 edition of the Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) review

Employment and Social Developments in Europe review shows diverse impact of COVID-19 crisis
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The Commission’s services have published the 2021 edition of the Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) review

The ESDE review shows that the social impact of the COVID-19 crisis has been diverse.

The main findings of the ESDE review are:

  • Employment grew in jobs that are critical, can be carried out from home and require low social interaction. This was the case for instance in insurance, computer programming and telecommunications sectors. Jobs that could not be carried out from home saw a drop in employment. This was the highest in the sectors most severely affected by the lockdown measures, such as accommodation, food and travel. The decline was less pronounced in critical frontline jobs with high social interaction, such as doctors, nurses, personal care and childcare workers.
  • The geographical impact of the COVID-19 crisis has been uneven and may widen regional inequalities that already existed before the pandemic. Job losses were five times greater in rural areas than in cities. Across EU Member States, the Mediterranean regions were the most affected by job losses, also linked to a greater share of people working in tourism.
  • The regions that proved to be more resilient to the shock of COVID-19 tend to share characteristics such as high regional productivity, high level of skilled population levels, big investment in research and development, quality local public institutions and solid digital infrastructure. Overall, well-performing labour markets proved to be better protected against the economic downturn.
  • The impact of the crisis on national social dialogue and collective bargaining varied across EU countries. Countries with strong social dialogue institutions favoured the early involvement of social partners in designing and deploying response measures such as short-time work schemes. In some EU countries, health concerns limited traditional collective bargaining procedures, while in others the involvement of social partners increased in the light of urgent public interventions.
  • The decline in the EU employment rate was slightly higher for men than for women. However, the effect of the crisis on gender inequalities depends on various dimensions, and the pandemic highlighted long-standing gender inequalities. Women experienced a steeper fall in working hours than men in the second quarter of 2020 since some sectors characterised by high female employment (e.g. accommodation and food service activities) were strongly impacted by lockdowns. Also, women continued to take on the largest share of caring responsibilities, and faced challenges in balancing work and private life.
  • Teleworkers are satisfied with working from home when they receive the IT and other equipment they need to do their work, when they do not have to work considerably longer hours and when work does not interfere with family time.

Background

The annual Employment and Social Developments in Europe review prepared by the Directorate-General of Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion provides up-to-date economic analysis of employment and social trends in Europe and discusses related policy options. It is the European Commission’s analytical flagship report in the area of employment and social affairs, mandated by Articles 151, 159 and 161 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

Charts

Chart 1: Growth rate in employment

Source: Calculations by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, based on a Eurostat special extraction on EU-LFS data.

 

Chart 2: Factors driving regional resilience (% impact on regional GDP change 2019/2020)

 

Chart 3: Within-country variation in the digital skills intensity index

Chart 4: Social partners’ involvement in designing legislation or other statutory regulations and tripartite agreements

Source: COVID-19 EU PolicyWatch Database

 

Chart 5: Level of involvement of social partners in the design and management of short-time working and temporary unemployment schemes

Source: Eurofound

 

Chart 6: Teleworkers’ satisfaction

Source: Own calculation based on Eurofound survey data: Living, working in COVID-19

 

Source: Employment and Social Developments in Europe review shows diverse impact of COVID-19 crisis – Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion – European Commission (europa.eu)

 

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