Putting together the jigsaw of skills and employment
Skills and employment should go hand in hand. When making decisions on what steps need to be taken to boost employment, we should be looking…
Labour market information (LMI)
Labour Market Information (LMI) is information about what is happening in a labour market. LMI tends to focus on the industries that are growing and declining, the types and levels of jobs are increasing and decreasing and what supply of labour is available – numbers, skill and qualification levels.
What is a labour market?
Definition: A labour market is the place where workers and employees interact with each other. In the labour market, employers compete to hire the best, and the workers compete for the best satisfying job. Description: A labour market in an economy functions with demand and supply of labour.
What is the meaning of labour market information?
Labour Market Information is all the quantitative data, like numbers and statistics, and qualitative information, or the personal stories to support the data, related to employment and the workforce.
Labour costs and labour income, UK: 2022
Annual commentary with quarterly dataset of the labour share of income, unit labour costs (ULC) and average labour compensation per hour (ALCH), with industry breakdowns.Annual…
European Social Fund and Youth Employment Initiative Leavers Survey Report 2016-2019
This report provides findings of the experiences of people in England who had recently left work-related courses/programmes funded through the ESF. The European Social Fund…
Upcoming DWP research publications
This document provides details of upcoming Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) research publications.This document provides details of upcoming Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)…
Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), NI: Oct-Dec 2021
Estimates of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) in Northern Ireland who are not in education, employment or training, by age and sex.Estimates of…
Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), UK: February 2022
Estimates of young people (aged 16 to 24 years) who are not in education, employment or training, by age and sex.Estimates of young people (aged…
Could schools and colleges be drawing on longer-term destination measures to better support their young people?
Educational success is often measured using short-term metrics such as exam results and league tables. While these offer snapshots in time, they also provide an…
Lifelong Education Commission amendments to the Skills Bill
Speech by Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP (@CSkidmoreUK) on the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill Report stage: Hansard, 21 February 2022, columns 104–7, 122–6. To…
Labour productivity for UK countries and regions, quarterly: April to June 2021
Annual and quarterly data exploring regional labour productivity, gross value added, hours and jobs. Annual and quarterly data exploring regional labour productivity, gross value added,…
Labour market in the regions of the UK: February 2022
Regional, local authority and Parliamentary constituency breakdowns of changes in UK employment, unemployment, economic inactivity and other related statistics. Regional, local authority and Parliamentary constituency…