Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Small rise in level of UK unemployment should not be seen as ‘canary in the coalmine’ for future adverse effect of Brexit vote

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The UK Office for National Statistics has just released the latest official jobs report, mostly covering the three months June to August 20...
Friday, 22 July 2016

Pseudo Say's law and the secret of George Osborne's jobs record

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All political careers, it's often said, end in failure. But this never stops departing politicians from putting a gloss on their own pro...
Tuesday, 12 July 2016

Thoughts on the effects of Brexit on UK unemployment and the labour market

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Earlier today I participated in a plenary panel session of the Learning & Work Institute’s IntoWork Convention 2016 on the broad subjec...
Thursday, 17 March 2016

Skills mismatch, job quality and the productivity puzzle

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The UK’s very poor recent trend productivity performance features prominently in debate following yesterday’s Budget, with pessimism over p...
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Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Pace of UK jobs market recovery slows ahead of ‘quarter of uncertainty’ for businesses

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It’s Budget day in the UK so less focus than usual on the latest official labour market numbers published earlier this morning by the Offic...
Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Latest official numbers show record UK employment remains a mixed blessing for economy

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Economic growth may have slowed in the final quarter of last year but, as the Office for National Statistics informed us earlier today,  th...
Wednesday, 20 January 2016

UK unemployment falls to decade low rate of 5.1% but rate of annual regular pay growth falls below 2% - we need to rethink what we mean by ‘tight labour market’

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We’ve just had the latest official UK jobs market figures from the Office for National Statistics. This is the first set of 2016, though th...