The vast majority of economists polled by Reuters think the BoE will wait until November to reduce interest rates again, although financial markets currently show a one-in-four chance of a rate cut on Sept. 19. Official labour market data on Tuesday are expected to show robust employment gr...
the pressure to optimise resources has intensified. The ONS data indicates that job vacancies in the UK have declined at the fastest rate in four years. While this could signal an easing of labour shortages, it also reflects a potential stagnation...
Macroeconomic data released in the week commencing September 9 support our overarching outlook for the UK economy. Labor market data indicate a continued softening; however, some inconsistencies, likely due to quality issues in the Labour Force Survey, introduce a degree of uncertainty. Pay ...
The UK’s labour market outlook is uncertain following October’s budget announcement, data from Indeed has indicated. While the economy overall outperformed this year’s low expectations, job postings dropped by 24% in 2024, which could lead into next year, warned the global recruitment platform....
Madden, D. (1999), Labour market discrimination on the basis of health: An application to U.K. data. Mimeo, University College Dublin.Labour market discrimination on the basis of health: an application to UK data - Madden - 2004Madden, D. (2004), "Labour market discrimination on the ...
The UK’s ‘official’ labour data is becoming a nonsense How can we make economic policy if the figures we rely on are problematic? October 12 2023 Gilts Happy LDImageddon anniversary We go again October 10 2023 Bank of England BoE pushes to double liquidity requirements for money market fun...
We estimate a two-equation model over the whole period from 1872 to 1999 using a newly constructed set of long-run labour market data. We find that the structure of real wage setting was different in the golden age, consistent with notions about the postwar settlement, but it did not ...
While most measures suggest a tight UK labour market, the pass-through to wage growth has been weak. We expect labour demand to soften in 2023, which should loosen conditions in the jobs market and encourage the MPC to take a less hawkish approach than m
This study, using data from the British Crime Survey (BCS), examines the effect of drug use on occupational achievement. It starts by attempting to overcome the identification problem that results from the limited set of drug use questions presented in the BCS. Taking this into account, and al...
ONS: Employment in the UK: June 2024 (https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/employmentintheuk/june2024) CIPD: Labour Market Outlook Winter 2020-2021 UK Unemployment Tracker (https://www.centreforcities.org/data/uk-unemployment-tracker/)...