One of the main puzzles associated with the Great Recession has been the muted increase in recorded unemployment in the … unemployment, but also means that (i) significant numbers of workers are supplying fewer hours of work than they would like and (ii …

increase during 2012, though unemployment was stable. The paper also investigates the microeconomic determinants of …

This paper considers some of the implications of the increase in UK unemployment since the beginning of the Great … Recession. The major finding is that the sharp increase in unemployment and decrease in employment is largely concentrated on …