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Employment and Unemployment

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Having stayed at about 2.4 per cent (seasonally adjusted) from October to December last year, unemployment (including the temporarily stopped) rose to 2.6 per cent in January and February but then fell back to the rate of 2.4 per cent in March.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 2 , March 1959 , pp. 12 - 15
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Copyright © 1959 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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note (1) page 12 Unless otherwise stated, all figures in this section are for Great Britain only, and come from the Ministry of Labour Gazette; the figures for unemployment exclude the tem porarily stopped.

note (2) page 12 It is of some interest that, in the 1951 Census, 340 thousand men in Great Britain described themselves as ‘out of work’; even if one excludes the 65 thousand who were over 60 years old, the figure is still much bigger than the 165 thousand men registered as unemployed.

note (3) page 12 The figures are derived from the Ministry of Labour's annual figures of the age of civil employees (for which the latest figures are for end-May 1957, published in the Ministry of Labour Gazette, June 1958, and which exclude the self- employed) and from the Registrar-General's figures of the age distribution of the total population (Annual Abstract of Statistics).

note (4) page 12 This is the increase obtained by taking the 1951 percent ages of men in each age-group who were at work (or registered as unemployed), and applying them to the 1957 age distri bution.

note (1) page 13 It is difficult to judge the importance of this ‘classification effect’, but it has probably grown with the general rise in unemployment.

note (1) page 14 Northern, East and West Ridings, North-Western, Scotland, Wales.

note (2) page 14 Midland, North Midland, Eastern and Southern, London and South-Eastern, South-Western.

note (1) page 15 The extent to which employers notify vacancies varies from industry to industry; this may explain a little of the difference, but not by any means all of it.