This chapter describes the labour market impact of the COVID‑19 crisis in Nordic countries from an international perspective. As in most OECD countries, Nordic countries experienced a fast recovery of their labour markets. At the height of the crisis, unemployment rates increased more in Nordic countries than in many other European countries, but the increases were generally not more persistent. The contraction in employment rates in Nordic countries was similar to that of other European countries and generally short-lived. Nordic countries, however, exhibited varying degrees of resilience – with Sweden and Iceland experiencing slower recoveries. The differential impact of the crisis across industries translated into an unequal impact on groups of workers. Thanks to the robust recovery, much of the unequal impact had been reabsorbed by early 2022. Nevertheless, young people and workers without tertiary education felt the effects of the crisis more strongly and for longer across all Nordic countries.