{"id":87890,"date":"2023-08-15T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T11:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=87890"},"modified":"2023-08-15T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T11:57:23","slug":"unemployment-in-britain-rose-to-4-2-in-the-second-quarter-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/unemployment-in-britain-rose-to-4-2-in-the-second-quarter-of-2023\/08\/15\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment in Britain rose to 4.2% in the second quarter of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UK unemployment rate rose to 4.2% in the second quarter of 2023, the highest level since late 2021 and above market expectations and the previous level of 4%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This rise was supported by the number of unemployed persons for a period of up to 6 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rate of inactive people in the economy fell 0.1 percentage point in the quarter to 20.9%, driven largely by people who are inactive because they take care of family or home, while those who are inactive due to illness rose to a record high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the employment rate fell 0.1 percentage point to 75.7%, driven by full-time employees and the self-employed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The estimate of related employees for the month of July 2023 shows a monthly increase of 97 thousand to 30.2 million employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK unemployment rate rose to 4.2% in the second quarter of 2023, the highest level since late 2021 and above market expectations and the previous level of 4%. This rise was supported by the number of unemployed persons for a period of up to 6 months. The rate of inactive people in the economy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":31569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6887],"class_list":["post-87890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-market-updates","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87891,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87890\/revisions\/87891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}