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Elena Magrini and Pawel Adrjan

Job postings are slower to recover where more people work from home and high-street footfall remains low, making it harder for redundant workers to find jobs.

Elena Magrini

While over the summer many social distancing restrictions were lifted almost everywhere, this was not reflected in the same way in local labour markets.

Paul Swinney

This is the first recession where real time data from private companies is giving up to date information on the performance of the economy. It’s time the public sector caught up.

Elena Magrini

Unemployment claims continue to rise, but at a slower pace, suggesting the gradual phase out of the job retention scheme has not translated into unemployment. At least not yet.

Elena Magrini and Pawel Adrjan

In the UK, competition for jobs has risen most in places where work was already hardest to find, raising concerns about widening geographic inequality.

Elena Magrini

The number of people claiming unemployment benefits continues to rise, with the biggest rises in the past month in large cities and towns in the South East.

Valentine Quinio

Crawley remains the city with the highest share of eligible workers on furlough.

Elena Magrini, Kathrin Enenkel and Lahari Ramuni

Cities are using their knowledge of their local area to support people train and find a job, but the support they can provide is limited by red tape.

Elena Magrini

The latest data shows that while no city or large town has high-take up of Job Retention Scheme but low claimant count, many do have high unemployment claims and lower levels of people on furlough.