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Timetric: Part Time Working in the UK

Geoff Riley

11th March 2011

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There has been a strong long-term rise in the number of people working part time in the UK labour market. Indeed at the end of 2010 over seven and a half million people were measured by the labour force survey as being in a part time job. Partly this reflects a shift to a more flexible labour market but in the short term some of the rise is the number of people who opt for reduced hours employment because they cannot find a full time post - notice in our Timetric chart how this group of people has grown since the start of the recession. Will it fall back as we head through 2011?

Data from Timetric.

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Employment and employees, UK from Timetric

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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