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Assorted Links (21 Jan 2010) - Focus on Unemployment
21st January 2010
The small (and unexpected) fall in unemployment was headline news yesterday but if you scratch beneath the surface the main explanation for the decline centred on rising part time employment and a further increase in long term youth unemployment. Economic inactivity continues to grow. Here are five links (including some BBC video coverage) of the unemployment data.
1/ BBC News (Stephanie Flanders) - Surprise fall in unemployment - see also her blog
2/ Statistics Commission - latest UK labour market data
3/ Telegraph - UK unemployment expected to rise again this year
4/ Guardian: Part-time working surges
5/ Independent: Fall in official unemployment rate masks rise in the ‘hidden jobless’
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.