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Labour Market Tightness Assessment
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Labour Market Tightness Assessment is a paid API for AI agents from stat.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.006/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Combines unemployment rate, job vacancy rate, and activity rate for one or more countries into a composite labour market tightness score, capturing whether labour shortages or surpluses are the dominant condition.
Price / call$0.006
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How this service works
Combines the unemployment rate, the job vacancy rate and the activity rate for one or more countries into a tightness assessment. The measure that carries the signal is the relation between vacancies and unemployment, not the unemployment rate on its own: four percent unemployment alongside a high vacancy rate means employers cannot find people, and the same four percent alongside a low vacancy rate means there are no jobs, and those are opposite situations that the headline rate reports…
Output
Returns a composite labour market tightness assessment for each requested country, incorporating unemployment rate, job vacancy rate, and activity rate into a single measure. The core signal is the vacancy-to-unemployment relationship, which distinguishes between situations where low unemployment reflects genuine labour scarcity versus mere coincidence with low vacancies, providing a richer picture than headline unemployment alone.
Example use cases
Hiring feasibility check for market entry
“We're considering opening a manufacturing facility in Poland or the Czech Republic — can you pull the labour market tightness for both countries so I can see which one has a tighter labour supply and whether we'd struggle to hire locally?”
Macroeconomic dashboard for investor briefing
“I need a labour tightness snapshot for the US, UK, Germany, and Japan to include in our Q3 investor deck — specifically the vacancy-to-unemployment relationship so we can show where wage pressure is likely to be highest.”
Recession signal monitoring
“Can you check the labour market tightness for Spain and Italy right now? I want to see whether the rising unemployment figures there actually signal a slack labour market or whether vacancies are still holding up.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://stat.halowerk.com/v1/labour-tightnessWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a nuanced view of labour market conditions that goes beyond the headline unemployment rate — particularly when distinguishing between tight labour markets (where vacancies are high relative to unemployment) and genuinely slack ones. Ideal for cross-country comparisons, investment research, workforce planning, or macroeconomic monitoring where the vacancy-unemployment relationship carries the analytical signal.
Side effects
- Unknown or unsupported country code returns an error or empty result
- Data unavailable for a requested time period for a given country
- Missing vacancy or activity rate data for a country prevents full tightness computation
- Invalid request body format causes a 400-level error
- Service unavailable or payment not processed results in a failure response
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| periods | integer | |
| countries | array |
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