scholarly journals The UK Labour Market and the 2008-9 Recession

2010 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. R61-R72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Gregg ◽  
Jonathan Wadsworth
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Government Support ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fiscal Policies ◽  
Firm Profitability ◽  
Outflow Rate ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
The Uk

The recession of 2008–9 inflicted a larger cumulative loss of UK output than any of the other postwar recessions. Nevertheless, employment rates remained higher than might have been expected given the experience of previous recessions. The main reasons for this appear to be a combination of high firm profitability levels going into the recession, supportive monetary and fiscal policies during the recession, reductions in real producer wages and relatively buoyant real consumer wages. Unemployment had reached its lowest levels for 30 years going in to the latest recession and has also remained relatively subdued through the downturn, certainly compared to previous recessions. A combination of lower inflow rates into unemployment, allied with a relatively higher outflow rate into employment underlie this. As government support for the economy is scaled back, it may be however that it will take a long time for employment to return to levels last seen before the recession.

Economic Performance Under Labour

2010 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. R2-R14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iana Liadze ◽  
Martin Weale
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
National Income ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Economic

This article compares the performance of the UK economy since 1997 with that between 1979 and 1997 and with the performance of the other G7 economies in both periods. It concludes that Britain has done relatively well in terms of productivity growth, economic growth and national income per head but not very well in terms of labour market performance. Savings rates were too low to deliver sustainable economic growth over the period 1979–97 and there has been very little improvement since then. The performance of the economy during the recession and its immediate aftermath has been disappointing relative to the other G7 economies.

Discriminatory labour market experiences of A8 national high skilled workers in the UK

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Sirkeci ◽  
Necla Acik ◽  
Bradley Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Skills Mismatch ◽  
Annual Population ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

Overqualification among migrants, defined as being employed in a job that is below their acquired skill levels through education, is well-known. Recent studies show that overqualification is more likely amongst migrants who work in the older EU15 member states. Similar studies carried out in the UK supports the argument that minorities suffer from ethnic and religious penalties in the labour market, especially among high skilled groups. Despite the relatively high employment rates of A8 migrants in the UK, they tend to be overwhelmingly employed in elementary occupations (i.e. requiring low skill levels) and likely to be underpaid. Very few studies have examined the propensity of overqualification of A8 nationals working in the UK. We have adopted the skills mismatch model to examine the skills level mismatch for the A8 migrants.  Therefore, a time-series analysis was carried out using  the Annual Population Survey for the period of 2005 to 2012 which marks the beginning and end of restrictions for access to the labour market for A8 nationals across the European Union. This has also given us a time span of 8 years during which the UK economy fall into recession from 2007 onwards.. The evidence shows that A8 nationals have been subject to ethnic penalties in the high end of the labour market irrespective of the impact of the financial crisis. It is very common that they take up posts for which they are overqualified, or in other words, overeducated. This is particularly important as discrimination at that level is likely to have negative impact on economic recovery by supressing the full skill and entrepreneurial potential of this particular group in the UK labour market.

Labour Market Considerations in Hong Kong

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradford W. Imrie
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
North America ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Associate Degree ◽  
The Other ◽  
Market Needs ◽  
The Uk

Labour market needs in Hong Kong continue to change and this paper deals with policies and planning related to sub-degree programmes at the higher vocational (HV) level, leading to the Higher Diploma (HD). The HD is equivalent to the associate degree in North America and, in the UK, to the Higher National Diploma (HND) which is generally accepted as pass degree equivalent. Since 1990 there have been far-reaching changes in the provision of the HD in Hong Kong and a review was initiated at the end of 1994. Two recent reports in Hong Kong are particularly significant: one dealing with manpower projections, the other with continuing education. It is vitally important that providers maintain quality while seeking to be more flexible. Some international considerations are addressed.

Who are solo self-employed women? Analysis of the trends and characteristics of solo self-employed women in Ireland 2003–2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-60
Author(s):  
Lauren Bari
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Flexible Working ◽  
Employed Women ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Freelance Work

Abstract Solo or ‘freelance’ self-employment is becoming a more popular form of self-employment in the labour market. In some jurisdictions such as the UK, this growth is being attributed to rising numbers of women – and women with children in particular - seeking the flexibility and autonomy of freelance work as a response to shortages of flexibility in wage-and-salaried employment. Yet little is known about how these trends might be occurring in Ireland and who might be represented in this small but growing cohort of workers. This research uses Labour Force Survey data to explore trends in female solo self-employment in Ireland between 2003 and 2019 and key variables are drawn upon to develop a profile of this underexplored labour market group. The analysis highlights that while growth in solo self-employment rates has been slow and numbers still relatively small, it is increasingly made up of highly educated and professional women in relatively high-paid sectors opting for flexible working arrangements.

scholarly journals Mobilizing affect, shaping market subjects: Tracing the connections of neuroliberalism and social finance in youth homelessness projects

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2110095
Author(s):  
Manuel Wirth
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
The Other ◽  
Youth Homelessness ◽  
Social Impact Bonds ◽  
The One ◽  
Systemic Constraints ◽  
The Uk

In this article, I take the framework of neuroliberalism as an analytical lens to explore the functioning and implementation of a social impact bond-funded welfare service for young homeless people in the UK. After reflecting on the lines of connections and divergences between social impact bonds and neuroliberal logics, I draw attention to the limitations that exist in welfare interventions inspired by neuroliberal thought. On the one hand, the studied intervention functioned mainly through designing trustful, ideal-type relationships as a means to ‘fix’ people, thereby focusing on behavioural and biographical deficiencies and spreading good life ideals of a marketized world. On the other hand, I demonstrate how this focus on adjusting micro-contexts and tinkering with the affective, relational infrastructure fails to understand systemic constraints. Those were particularly evident with regard to the precarious labour market environment and colliding welfare agendas individuals were confronted with.

From the “Judicialization of Politics” to the “Politicization of Justice” in the UK and Switzerland

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Lucia Della Torre
Keyword(s):  
General Rule ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Field ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
Judicialization Of Politics ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Migration Law

Not very long ago, scholars saw it fit to name a new and quite widespread phenomenon they had observed developing over the years as the “judicialization” of politics, meaning by it the expanding control of the judiciary at the expenses of the other powers of the State. Things seem yet to have begun to change, especially in Migration Law. Generally quite a marginal branch of the State's corpus iuris, this latter has already lent itself to different forms of experimentations which then, spilling over into other legislative disciplines, end up by becoming the new general rule. The new interaction between the judiciary and the executive in this specific field as it is unfolding in such countries as the UK and Switzerland may prove to be yet another example of these dynamics.

Leading with Pedagogical Tact- a Challenge in Children's Sports in Sweden

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 127-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krister Hertting
Keyword(s):  
Daily Activity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Competitive Sport ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Youth Politics ◽  
Pedagogical Tact ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
Swedish Society ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Voluntary Commitment

Leading with Pedagogical Tact- a Challenge in Children's Sports in Sweden The purpose of this article is to elucidate and problemize meetings between children and leaders in children's sport. The competitive sport is high valuated in the Swedish society and sport for children is central in the Swedish youth politics. The foundation in Swedish sport, as well as in the other Nordic countries, has for a long time relied on voluntary commitment. Approximately 650 000 people are voluntary engaged as leaders in sport in Sweden and 70% of children between 7 and 14 years compete in sports clubs. There is, however, a tension in the Swedish sport system. The sports for children has double missions - ‘association nurturing’ and ‘competition nurturing’, missions which are not always in harmony. In the daily activity it is the voluntary leaders who have to deal with these missions, which creates a field of tension. In this article I argue for a bridge between these missions by a leadership based on pedagogical tact. The empirical outlook is a narrative based on statements from leaders, children and parents in a study dealing with voluntary leadership within children's football. In the end I argue that focusing on this bridge is a win-win situation, both for children and sports.

Introduction and overview of the current situation regarding the employment of biomass

2014 ◽  
pp. 691-697
Author(s):  
Suleiman José Hassuani
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Energy Generation ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Significant Excess ◽  
Cane Juice ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Biomass Availability ◽  
Sugarcane Industry

The sugarcane industry for a long time has focused only on the cane juice, its extraction and conversion to sugar. Bagasse was considered a residue and burnt inefficiently to generate steam and power. In the last decades, bagasse gradually started to be converted into energy in a more efficient way, supplying all the sugar industry energy needs (power, and steam) and, in some cases, significant excess electricity has been exported to the grid, becoming another important source of revenue. This motivated several studies of more advanced energy generation systems to boost energy exports. In more recent years, technologies called 2nd and 3rd generation have taken over the scene with many options, promising to convert biomass into more valuable products such as biofuels, chemicals, fertilisers, pellets, etc. Unfilled expectations and opportunities are rising. On the other hand, these technologies are competing for the same biomass, and this has to be considered. The industry has started to question ‘which way to go’, strategy and investment wise. The present study provides a broad scenario for the biomass availability, and its employment, with a close view to the main processes and products that might have an important role in the future of the biomass in the sugarcane industry.

scholarly journals Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372097290
Author(s):  
Alessandro D’Arma ◽  
Tim Raats ◽  
Jeanette Steemers
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Market Size ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Competitive Displacement ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Different Levels

Netflix and other transnational online video streaming services are disrupting long-established arrangements in national television systems around the world. In this paper we analyse how public service media (PSM) organisations (key purveyors of societal goals in broadcasting) are responding to the fast-growing popularity of these new services. Drawing on Philip Napoli’s framework for analysing strategic responses by established media to threats of competitive displacement by new media, we find that the three PSM organisations in our study exhibit commonalities. Their responses have tended to follow a particular evolution starting with different levels of complacency and resistance before settling into more coherent strategies revolving around efforts to differentiate PSM offerings, while also diversifying into activities, primarily across new platforms, that mimic SVoD approaches and probe production collaborations. Beyond these similarities, however, we also find that a range of contextual factors (including path-dependency, the role and status of PSM in each country, the degree of additional government support, cultural factors and market size) help explain nuances in strategic responses between our three cases.

scholarly journals Skilled Migrants in the Swedish Labour Market: An Analysis of Employment, Income and Occupational Status

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3428
Author(s):  
Nahikari Irastorza ◽  
Pieter Bevelander
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Skilled Immigrants ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
Employment Rates

In a globalised world with an increasing division of labour, the competition for highly skilled individuals—regardless of their origin—is growing, as is the value of such individuals for national economies. Yet the majority of studies analysing the economic integration of immigrants shows that those who are highly skilled also have substantial hurdles to overcome: their employment rates and salaries are lower and they face a higher education-to-occupation mismatch compared to highly skilled natives. This paper contributes to the paucity of studies on the employment patterns of highly skilled immigrants to Sweden by providing an overview of the socio-demographic characteristics, labour-market participation and occupational mobility of highly educated migrants in Sweden. Based on a statistical analysis of register data, we compare their employment rates, salaries and occupational skill level and mobility to those of immigrants with lower education and with natives. The descriptive analysis of the data shows that, while highly skilled immigrants perform better than those with a lower educational level, they never catch up with their native counterparts. Our regression analyses confirm these patterns for highly skilled migrants. Furthermore, we find that reasons for migration matter for highly skilled migrants’ employment outcomes, with labour migrants having better employment rates, income and qualification-matched employment than family reunion migrants and refugees.

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