Employment for UK-nationals rises 166,000 while over the same period employment for non-UK nationals was down 166,000

Male unemployment was 1.56 million in September to November 2011, the highest since 1995. Female unemployment was 1.13 million and the highest since 1987.

Public sector employment down 366 thousand since its peak in August to October 2009. It stood at 5.99 million in August to October 2011.

In the second quarter of 2011 the average number of usual hours worked in the UK stood at around 36.3 per week, down 4.7 per cent from 38.1 hours per week in 1992.

A short story on disabled people across the UK, their health problems and labour market characteristics, using the latest 2011 statistics from the Labour Force Survey.

Youth unemployment reaches over one million - the highest level since 1986.

Over the past 15 years, the number of people leaving their main job has been in decline, suggesting that the UK labour market is less dynamic now than it has been in the past.

Latest on the labour market October 2011 Around 5.6 people unemployed for every vacancy in the UK, around 2.5 people pre-recession.

Three out of ten households workless in some areas.

Rise in households in which every member aged 16 and over is unemployed

One in five graduates earn less than the average for someone educated to A-level standard.

Between April to June 2010 and April to June 2011 there was an increase in non-UK born workers of 289,000 while over the same period there was an increase of 166,000 in non-UK national employment.

Explaining the relationship between unemployment rates and inactivity in young people

While the South and East avoided the worst unemployment increases the West Midlands and Yorkshire & The Humber had the largest trough to peak increases over the past 6 years.

Around 16.1 per cent of people who work part-time say their reason is because they cannot find a full-time job. This is the largest estimate since records began.

The difference in average earnings between employees in the public and private sector has increased since April 2007, the year before the start of the recent recession.

Looking at the UK as a whole, around 3 in 4, or 75% of workers take less than half an hour to travel to work. However, commuting patterns are vastly different between workers in London and the rest of the UK.

In the first quarter of 2011, around 1 in 5 workers, or 20.6%, in low-skill occupations were born outside the UK. This figure has increased from around 1 in 11 workers, or 9.0%, in the first quarter of 2002.

Degree holders earned an average of £12,000 a year more than non- graduates over the past decade. After adjusting for increases over the period, the data show that graduates had median salaries of £29,900 compared with £17,800 for non-degree holders.

The gap in employment rates for women with and without children has narrowed over the last fifteen years, from 5.8 percentage points in 1996 to just 0.8 percentage points in the final quarter of 2010.

Over the past decade, an increasing number of older people (those aged 65 and over) are in work. This increase is seen in both full-time and part- time employment.

Instances of sickness absence in the UK fell during the recent recession. In the first quarter of 2009, 2.1% of employees had a spell of sickness absence, down from 2.5% before the start of the recession.

Since the onset of the most recent recession, the unemployment rate for new graduates was 20% in the third quarter of 2010. This was the highest unemployment rate for new graduates in over a decade.