Richard Exell
Today’s Labour Market Report looks at the worst employment figures since the recession. Employment is down, unemployment and long-term unemployment are up, the results for young people are especially distressing. Possibly most worrying of all, after a decades-long fall in the number of women economically inactive because they are looking after their homes or family, this number has been rising most of this year.
Richard Exell
We have just published this month’s Labour Market Report, covering the latest Labour Market data. Again the headline figures for employment and unemployment are good, but these are more worrying items too. Claimant Count unemployment is rising but job vacancies are at a very low level. Labour market results for women have been worse than those for men for a year now and the number of women receiving Jobseeker’s Allowance is the highest since 1996.
Richard Exell
We have just published this month’s Labour Market Report. While the headlines are higher employment and lower unemployment, there are some worrying other statistics. In particular, the labour market continues to favour men more than women and the Claimant Count shows unemployment rising. The Report includes a discussion of the contradiction between sluggish figures for GDP and relatively strong employment results and the explanations that have been put forward.
Richard Exell
Labour Market Report # 14 looks at the latest employment figures to find out what has happened to employment and unemployment rates for different age groups since the recession started.
There’s a general pattern of older groups doing better than younger – employment rates have actually risen for people over state pension age.
The weak recovery is still not benefitting women – women’s unemployment continues to rise, and is now higher than it was in the 1990s recession.
Richard Exell
We have just published the latest edition of our Labour Market Report.
In it, we provide our usual round-up of employment and unemployment figures. There is a section on “Want Work” rates – a way of measuring labour market slack. Using this measure there are 4,888,000 people who want a job but don’t have one.
Nicola Smith
Today’s labour market report shows how concerning the state of the labour market is. The most recent labour market data cover the last quarter of 2010 (October – December) and show that employment levels remain low, unemployment is still high and that economic inactivity has sharply increased. In addition, inflation is rising far faster than wages, meaning that those in work are also experiencing significant pressure on their living standards.
Richard Exell
Today we have published our latest Labour Market Report based on the Office for National Statistics monthly employment figures. In this issue, we look at the rise in unemployment and fall in employment and the growth of involuntary part-time work. Full-time and employee employment levels have yet to show any signs of recovery from the downturn.
Economic inactivity is also on the rise, especially for women – there was a 55,000 increase in the number of economically inactive women from last month’s figures. The report also looks at what has happened to the employment rate gender gap over the past couple of years: it shrank in the recession but has been rising again for a year so that men’s employment rate is once again more than ten percentage points higher than women’s.
Richard Exell
We have just published the latest edition of our Labour Market Report.
In it, we look at the large increase in unemployment in the latest statistics and how the mens and women’s experiences of employment and unemployment have differed over the past two and a half years.
Nicola Smith
Today we have published our ninth labour market report, which shows that despite a significant rise in employment levels all is far from well in the labour market. Employment levels rose by 167,000 on the quarter (July – Sept 2010) and by 31,000 on the month (the result of a 34,000 increase in male employment levels countered by a fall of 3,000 in the number of women in work). However, the vacancy level (453,000) has been falling for three consecutive months and is now only slightly higher than at its lowest point during the recession (429,000 in July 2009), with 5.3 unemployed people for each vacancy. This is a significant rise from the pre- recession ratio of 2.2 unemployed people per job.
Adam Lent
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