Leaving lockdown

Young people’s employment in 2021: improvements and challenges in the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic

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…worklessness throughout the course of the pandemic Young people aged 18-24 were the age group most likely to have experienced extended worklessness (having been unemployed, fully furloughed or self-employed without…

Covid-19
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Labour market

The new wave

The economic policy response to Omicron

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…those furloughed continuing to receive 80 per cent of previous earnings, that would imply a cost of around £1.4 billion a month against a backdrop £46 billion of furlough spending…

Covid-19
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Labour market

Post-furlough blues

What happened to furloughed workers after the end of the Job Retention Scheme?

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…on furlough since June 2021 were furloughed in one job and working in another.2 But the more important reason is that post-furlough outcomes vary considerably between partially and fully furloughed…

Back to the future

What comes next for the UK’s post-pandemic labour market?

Tuesday 23 November 2021

At the onset of the pandemic, there were widespread concerns about catastrophic levels of unemployment in the face of lockdowns. But extending the furlough scheme has kept a lid on…

The final furlough?

Family finances in the Covid recovery

Thursday 1 July 2021

The UK economy is bouncing back after the deepest downturn in over three centuries. That bounce is being felt in the labour market too, with furlough rates falling and some…

Earning back better

The future of low pay in Britain

Monday 7 June 2021

…too – from the transition from furlough back to employment, to attempts to live up to the rhetorical commitments to build back better. How have low-paid workers been affected by…

Covid-19
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Monetary policy
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Labour market

Recovering from long Covid

Understanding the pandemic’s labour market legacy

Thursday 18 February 2021

…rising unemployment and long lasting furlough means an unprecedented number of people who have done little to no work in nearly a year. Previous recessions have taught us the impact…

Covid-19
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Labour market

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Where has six months of this crisis left workers, and what’s coming next

Wednesday 28 October 2020

…pay or fewer hours, while others are worried about life after furlough, or have switched jobs or lost their livelihoods altogether. In order to understand how the labour market is…

Covid-19
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Labour market

Final furlough?

Six months on from the start of the Job Retention Scheme

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…of those furloughed in late-July were partially furloughed, 73 per cent were furloughed in full, with the full/partial furlough status of the remaining 7 per cent unknown. We will be…

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