Labour Market Analytics
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The Labour Market Analytics unit is responsible for producing labour market data, analysis and research based on the department’s administrative data. As part of this remit, it delivers counterfactual impact evaluations under the government’s Pathways to Work (PtW) strategy. The unit also produces a quarterly labour market bulletin.
Pathways to Work 2015 committed to a rolling programme of process and programme evaluations of PtW reforms, as did Pathways to Work 2016-2020 and, most recently, Pathways to Work 2021-2025.
Nine evaluations have been completed to date:
The evaluations are listed in reverse order of publication below:
This is part of an OECD-EC project on policy impact evaluation through the use of linked administrative and survey data.
For more information, please see the project home page here and the publication on the OECD page.
Other links:
An evaluation of the Back to Work Family Dividend is ongoing and will be published in 2024.
The objective of this working paper is to highlight employment transitions (or movements) among former Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) recipients who have closed their claim and returned to work.
This analysis, which was conducted in November 2021 shows whether former PUP recipients returned to their former employer or changed employer (either within their former sector of employment or to a different sector).
The paper gives breakdowns and comparisons of those shown to have returned to work post-PUP and also considers their interaction with the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS).
This analysis, conducted in September 2021, examines everyone who received a PUP and later returned to work, indicating whether they: