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Yes Patrick, though another thing ‘hiding’ the real issue is self-employment and ‘freelancing’ which appears to be on the increase but with very much plummeting returns….
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/03/self-employed-osborne-entrepreneurs
'The average income from self-employment has fallen by 22% since the financial crash of 2008. Last year’s figures showed that average earnings had dropped from £15,000 to just under £10,400.'
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Subject: The Tory 'employment' spectrum
I can't find a source for this (on twitter) and it's a bit misleading but it relates to the latest ONS figures of 6.8m part-timers (= 22% of all employed) out of 30.76m in work and another 22.2% not in the labour force. Certainly 'redefining employment' tho!
Youth unemployment - covering 16-to-24-year-olds - fell by 88,000 over the quarter to 733,000, giving a jobless rate among the age group of 16% but almost certainly a higher p-t rate.
(Average weekly wages = £452.) (Claimant count just under 1m.)