Book Chapter

Employment transitions and the recession

By Karon Gush and Mark P. Taylor

Edited by Stephanie L. McFall

Publication details

Publication date
Series or book
Understanding Society: findings 2012
Pages
pp. 27–28
Publisher
University of Essex: Institute for Social and Economic Research
ISBN
978 1 85871 163 8
View on understandingsociety.ac.uk

Abstract

As the British economy struggles to emerge from its first recession in almost twenty years, and the worst recession since the Second World War in terms of loss of output, data from the UK Labour Force Survey suggest that the unemployment rate has remained lower than at the same stage in previous recessions.