Post-pandemic participation: exploring labour force participation in the UK, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the decade ahead

Despite unemployment reaching historic lows, a rise in economic inactivity means that the UK employment rate remains one percentage point lower than pre-pandemic. This paper investigates the causes and sets out some policy recommendations. The rise in economic inactivity since [Coronavirus Disease 2019] COVID-19 has not been a universal experience. The UK's labour force participation rate among 15-64-year-olds is still relatively high, but has fallen from the seventh of 38 OECD countries in 2019 to fifteenth in 2022. While there was an increase in flows from employment into economic inactivity ... Show more

Authors: Murphy, Louise; Thwaites, Gregory

Published: London, England, Resolution Foundation, 2023

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 48 p.

Access item: https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/post-pandemic-participation/

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