This chapter explores UK labour laws, covering labour market and litigation trends, redundancies, business protection, discrimination and more.
Job Vacancies 819.00 818.00 Thousand Dec 2024 Labor Force Participation Rate 78.50 78.40 percent Dec 2024 Labour Costs 113.10 111.90 points Sep 2024 HMRC Payrolls Change 20.68 -13.94 Thousand Jan 2025 Part Time Employment 8445.00 8420.00 Thousand Dec 2024 Population 68.27 67.60 Million Dec 2023 Labour...
Job Vacancies 761.00 783.00 Thousand Mar 2025 Labor Force Participation Rate 78.60 78.60 percent Mar 2025 Labour Costs 115.80 113.00 points Dec 2024 HMRC Payrolls Change -32.53 -46.66 Thousand Apr 2025 Part Time Employment 8567.00 8496.00 Thousand Mar 2025 Population 68.27 67.60 Million Dec 2023 Labour...
The 2023 conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) provided a platform for speakers from across North and Far North Queensland to address the challenge of labour shortages in the region and present forward-looking pathways to securing a wo...
Job vacancies dropped by nearly 73,000 jobs in July 2022. However, overall job vacancies increased by over 130,000 positions compared to last July 2021. After adjusting for seasonal effects on the labour market,Statistics Canadareports that roughly half of the job decreases between June and July...
Kugler (2004b) observes that in the presence of turnover costs, firms favor more skilled employees, and hence try to fill vacancies from currently employed workers. Hence, she finds that increases in employment protection reduces the flow from unemployment. Pries and Rogerson (2005) introduce ...
These returners are more likely to reside in West Germany and local employment agency districts with a lower unemployment rate and a higher share of full-time vacancies. 4. Empirical strategy 4.1. Identification Randomized trials are the gold standard for determining causality. However, randomization ...
Tackling the challenges of mature-age unemployment requires better matching of candidates with vacancies. A skills assessment should be undertaken with all older jobseekers. This will identify transferable skills and enable better matching with vacancies and with training. ...
In order to hire workers firms must post vacancies. If a firm posts a vacancy, it incurs per-period costs c. Unemployed workers and vacancies are matched using a standard constant returns to scale matching function (see Petrongolo and Pissarides 2001). Market tightness, defined as the ratio ...
Vacancies, employment growth and the demand for newcomers on the labour marketdoi:10.26481/UMAROR.199301EA. de GripP. MeijboomE.J.T.A. WillemsResearchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen