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"The authors analyse the gender unemployment gap in Italy and the United Kingdom by investigating the determinants of labour market flows, on the basis of multinomial logit model estimates, and identifying the contribution of a single transition from each state – employment, unemployment, inactivity – to the gap. Using this methodology, labour markets in Italy and the United Kingdom are compared, based on both countries' labour force survey data for the period 2004–13. Decomposition of the gender unemployment gap, using a transition probability matrix approach, shows that while women are disadvantaged in Italy, the reverse is true in the United Kingdom."

"This article describes a project to link the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE formerly the New Earnings Survey) and the 2001 Census. The investigation looks at the feasibility of linking the two data sets using a sample of the census data. Linking the data would enhance the ASHE data set by adding the personal characteristics of individuals. The results show that there is the potential to link the two data sets although further work would be needed using the whole census data set to ensure the matched data was not biased."

"This article considers labour market performance from April 2008 to September 2009, covering eighteen months of the recent recession, for the UK as a whole, the devolved countries of the UK and Government Office Regions within England. The main findings are:•employment rates have fallen for the UK and across the country, with Northern Ireland and Wales having the largest falls•the number of jobs in the UK has fallen, with ‘Manufacturing' and ‘Construction' industries having the largest percentage falls•redundancy levels increased through the recession to a peak in the three months to March 2009, before falling over the next six months to September 2009•unemployment and the claimant count have increased in all regions•the inactivity rate has increased slightly in the UK, but there are large variations in changes in inactivity across the UK•since the onset of the current recession, there has been a sharp increase in the flow of individuals from employment to unemployment,•earnings growth has been relatively weak in comparison with periods before the recession"