Economic Fairness - Parental Employment
There are a number of attributes associated with reduced rates of employment. Among these is motherhood. Fathers have very high employment rates, with over 90 per cent of fathers in London and the UK as a whole in employment. This is around 20 percentage points higher than employment rates among men who are not living in a parental role. Mothers...
Economic Fairness - Underemployment
There are different ways to consider underemployment, or whether people in work have the level of employment that they want. Nearly three per cent of all London residents in employment reported being in a part-time job because they could not find full-time work, very similar to the UK-wide figure. Both in London and nationally, this proportion rose through the recession...
Economic Fairness - Unemployment
Unemployment rates in London have tracked a little higher than those for the UK overall, standing at 5.0 per cent and 3.7 per cent respectively for 2023. Unemployment rose at the start of the pandemic but stayed significantly lower than during the financial crisis. Between 2022 and 2023, unemployment rose both in London and across the UK – the UK...
Economic Fairness - London Living Wage (LLW)
Living Wage employers pay all their direct employees and other employees working directly on external contracts, such as security staff, cleaners, catering staff etc, the London Living Wage. The GLA group and an increasing number of employers across London (almost 2,600) are Living Wage employers. This means that more than 100,000 employees are working in jobs that have received an...
Labour Market
All tables from the Labour Market theme: Economic activity Industry, occupation and NSSEC 2011 Economic activity and travel to work Title Description Table reference long data wide data Economic activity All Economic activity and travel to work tables – zipped Download Download Economic activity Economic activity 16-74 QS601EW Download Download Economic activity Economic activity of HRP QS602EW Download Download Economic...
2021
The GLA undertakes regular polling of Londoners’ views. The results from the GLA polls undertaken in 2021 appear on this page. You can choose a different year from the menu. GLA / YouGov poll results January PDF topline XLS Table GLA / YouGov poll results February PDF topline XLS Table GLA / YouGov poll results March PDF topline XLS Table...
City Data Analytics Programme
Individual public organisations across London have been using data analytics for many years and some are increasingly developing their own data science capacity. Benefits of this approach include: the ability to progress beyond reporting and dashboards to provide forecasts of service demand linking large, complex and regularly changing datasets together, giving a more holistic view discovering patterns and trends that...
Economic Fairness - Insecure Employment
The percentage of workers in insecure employment rose steadily between the financial crisis and the pandemic, but fell sharply during the Covid-19 pandemic. In London, around one in sixteen of everyone in work in 2022 is either employed in a job with a temporary contract, working through an employment agency or self-employed in occupations considered insecure*. This compares with around...
Economic Fairness - Underutility
Another of the ways in which London’s workforce is not fulfilling its potential is the number of people working in jobs for which they are overqualified. In many parts of the workforce, this is extremely difficult to quantify. Estimates for graduates working in roles that do not require a degree-level qualification have fallen substantially in recent years to only a...
Economic Fairness - Pay Ratio
An alternative perspective in pay differentials is given by comparing the highest to average remuneration levels. It is not possible to show the very highest earnings from sample survey data, but gross annual pay for the 95th percentile of employees in London (5 per cent of employee jobs are paid more than this amount) is around 3.3 times the median...