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Labour Market Statistics, February 2021: 500 thousand ‘excess’ redundancies in 2020 and long-term youth unemployment near 200 thousand – highest since 2016.
23 Feb 2021Comment from IES Director Tony Wilson on today's labour market statistics.
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New research shines light on future of work
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Labour Market Statistics, January 2021: Record redundancy figures but underneath there are signs of labour market stability by the end of last year
26 Jan 2021Comment from IES Director Tony Wilson on today's labour market statistics.
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Labour Market Statistics December 2020: Record job losses continue to reflect the huge increase in redundancy notices over the summer
15 Dec 2020Comment from IES Director Tony Wilson on today's labour market statistics.
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Labour Market Statistics November 2020: Weak figures driven by continued fall in hiring and spare capacity – more measures needed to support jobs recovery
10 Nov 2020Comment from IES Director Tony Wilson on today's Labour Market Statistics
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Labour Market Statistics October 2020: Fastest ever rise in redundancies, on course for at least 600 thousand lay-offs by the end of the year
13 Oct 2020Comment from IES Director Tony Wilson on today's Labour Market Statistics
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Likely that half a million jobs will be lost this autumn – the highest level since at least the mid-1990s
11 Sep 2020Urgent measures needed to support those affected, stimulate employment growth and provide targeted help to viable firms
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Labour market statistics: “clearest signs yet” that young people and lowest paid are being hit hardest by crisis
16 Jul 2020Tony Wilson's analysis of this morning's job data indicates that the jobs market continued to weaken during the lockdown and is showing no signs yet of recovery, with one million fewer people in paid employment since the crisis began.
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Jobs data: Unemployment rising faster than the Great Depression – set to top 3 million by the summer
16 Jun 2020Analysis of this morning’s jobs data by IES has found that unemployment has risen more in the last two months than it did in the first year of the Great Depression.
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Labour market data: Fastest rise in unemployment since 1947, with the areas with the poorest areas worst hit
19 May 2020Analysis of this morning’s labour market data by IES has found that last month saw the fastest rise in claimant unemployment since the claimant count started in 1971.