UK Policy Briefing
Autumn Budget 2021: Health inequalities and Covid-19
A pre Budget briefing from the UK Women’s Budget Group – October 2021
Blog Post
Latest ONS data on employment (February-April 2020)
We have analysed the data released by the Office for National Statistics for February to April which includes the first full month of lockdown.
What the data shows:
- Unemployment unchanged (credit to government’s support schemes)
- Largest decrease ever in weekly hours worked (but no gender differences)
- ‘Economically inactive’ slightly decreased (so no flight from labour market either)
- Pay fell for the first time since 2018 (-0.4% in real terms) (largely driven by big decrease in bonuses)
- Record fall in number of job vacancies (fewer 343,000 in May)
- 600,000 fewer employees in May (experimental PAYE stats) (suggesting unemployment rises will be reflected soon in official stats)
- SEISS – fewer eligible self-employed women claiming and for less
- CJRS (furlough scheme) – no gender data yet (from mid-July 2020 only)
Read our short note on what has changed in terms of employment for women and men
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