Category Archives: Employment

Vacancies on the up …… but driven by ONS Census hires!

While indicators like employment/unemployment rates and wage growth have been getting all of the attention from the media and the government – did you notice the little bit of good news, that job vacancies ended the year on a post-crisis … Continue reading

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Earnings in finance – some numbers behind the public anger

At Timetric this week, we’ve been busy curating data on the UK labour market. We’ve taken all of the data in the monthly ONS Labour Market statistical bulletin, creating a really comprehensive and up-to-date database of the UK labour market. … Continue reading

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An update on real wages

More discouraging news about the effect of inflation on real wages, ONS statistics published over the last couple of days have revealed. On Tuesday, the ONS released this month’s inflation data, which showed that CPI rose to 4.0% in January, … Continue reading

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Young people have never had it worse. Wrong!

How bad is the plight of the country’s youth? The rise in youth unemployment revealed by the ONS in its monthly labour market release on 19 January produced some dramatic quotes. Ed Miliband, leader of the opposition, raised the spectre … Continue reading

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The future of real wage value is beginning to look grim.

Earlier this week Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech in Newcastle addressing the increasingly worrying inflation numbers. In between a discussion of why inflation remained persistently high and what policy options were available to reign … Continue reading

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