Received:
2023-10-11 | Accepted:
2024-01-15 | Published:
2024-03-30
Title
Integral analysis of selected labour market indicators in the context of a Covid-19 pandemic
Abstract
Individual indicators linked to labour market developments during the COVID-19 pandemic provide a view of a particular area but fail to capture the issue of the impact of the crisis comprehensively. This problem can be addressed by integrating them using multicriteria methods, resulting in a synthetic indicator of a specific labour market. Thus, the issue of the impact of the pandemic on important macroeconomic and labour market indicators can be evaluated by calculating a single indicator. The main objective of this study is to identify the labour market with the highest positive flexibility in relation to the impacts of the pandemic and thus reveal the critical factor that fundamentally reduces the resistance of the labour market to negative pandemic externalities. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-Q2), Slovakia reached the highest value of the integral indicator, but in the last recorded wave (2022-Q1), it moved to the last place. Its average integral indicator for all three waves reached the highest average value. However, the highest value of the integral indicator and thus the highest positive flexibility of the labour market during the third wave was recorded by Germany, which evokes the assumption that the approach of the local government and authorities in the mentioned period most effectively protected the labour market from negative fluctuations. The results of the countries during the third wave of the pandemic consider the impact of the most current measures that were implemented at the time of the pandemic.
Keywords
labour market, COVID-19 pandemic, macroeconomic indicators, integral analysis
JEL classifications
E24
, O47
, J24
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/1159
DOI
Pages
10-24
Funding
This research was funded by the Slovak Ministry of Education’s Scientific grant agency VEGA: VEGA 1/0357/21 "Multiplier effects of human capital quality on economic performance and competitiveness of the Slovak economy".
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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