UK Labour Market Analysis: Coronavirus Impact, Data Skills AS2

This report examines the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the UK labor market, focusing on the health and social care sector. It differentiates between primary and secondary data, as well as qualitative and quantitative data, providing examples relevant to the healthcare industry. The analysis covers unemployment and employment rate fluctuations in the UK, highlighting the challenges faced by both employers and job seekers. The report concludes that the UK labor market is experiencing growth but emphasizes the need for improved training programs and recruitment strategies. Recommendations include addressing payment issues, enhancing training programs for medical professionals, and prioritizing empathy and communication skills in recruitment to mitigate the pandemic's effects on the labor market. The report references various journals and books to support its findings.

THE CORONAVIRUS
PANDEMIC HAS
IMPACTED THE LABOUR
MARKET IN THE UNITED
KINGDOM

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN.............................................................................................................3
A) Primary and secondary data....................................................................................................3
B) Qualitative and quantitative data............................................................................................3
IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS ON LABOUR MARKET............................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
RECOMMENDATIONS.................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
In the report differences would be clarified between primary and secondary data and
qualitative, quantitative data (Betcherman, Giannakopoulos, 2020) Further, in the report
considering health with social care sector a broad study will be carried out to analyse the impact
of Coronavirus on the labour market of business and finance sector of UK.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
A) Primary and secondary data
Primary data is the set of information which is collected by the researcher itself. This is
collected by observations, questionnaire, interview, experiment etc. by the health care business
(David and Pienknagura 2021)
Secondary data is the set of information which is already gathered by someone else and
researcher is using for fulfilment of its organizational objectives. for example, if the data of
government authority is being used which has been collected by the government so it is a
secondary data.
B) Qualitative and quantitative data
Quantitative data is generally a number or digit based information which is countable
and measurable too. For instance- consultancy amount gained, revenues of a health care
organisation.
At the same time qualitative data cannot be measured directly since it is having some
characteristics or depict quality. Like- quality information of the medicines, and ratings given by
patients and other social groups.
IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS ON LABOUR MARKET
The health and social care sector has been horrendously affected by the pandemics. The
labour market is very dynamic in the sector, specifically after attack of Covid-19, it is
experiencing severe changes.
The health and social care sector is heavily affected by the labour market structure. In last
24 months the unemployment has been horrific in nature and affected business and finance
sector. In the year 2020 it has been decreased to 4.34% and market was showing good progress
but due to attack of Covid-19 it got disturbed. In the year 2021 it came to 4.1%in the fourth
quarter and has been lowest since 2020, second quarter, so market was experiencing growth. In
the year 2021 around 1.8 million people were engaged in the sector, As the information shared

that unemployment rate which was 4.1% in April 2020 surged to 4.8% till the year 2021 April.
At the same time employment rate which was around 75.8% in April 2020, and in February 2021
came down to 74.7% (Mayhew and Anand, 2020)
chart showing unemployment data of UK labour market.
Employment rate data.

It shows double side issues that organizations engaged in the sector are having problem
of hiring people with higher talent at the same time people who are looking for job having perils
of lack of job availability.
Covid-19 affected health and social care sector. The labour market of this sector is very
dynamic, now the entities are more likely to hire the best personnel for their jobs that's why such
discrepancies are being seen. in 2020, around 1.56 million employees were engaged in the health
care sector of UK. which is higher than the previous years. now over 1.8 million people are
engaged as per the data provided in the year 2021 (Chandola, Kumari, 2020)
Covid-19 also changed the perspectives of people, now they are more likely to avail
medical and health services which is expanding the size of the sector and is also surging the
scope of jobs. this is strong reason behind great recovery and now the employment rate is going
up. in contrast, employment rate came down to 74.8% in April 2021 from 76.5% in December
2019. it shows that there is still need to wipe out discrepancy of the market.
in the market is has been seen that medical graduates and post graduates are not meeting
the requirements of the organisations since the market standards are getting higher, it is kicking
off this discrepancy, where job seekers and employers both are facing issues in job market.
as the chart is suggesting that after 2020 (Coles, Aristei, 2020) the market has shown
good progress and unemployment rate came down to 5, which was earlier notched up more than
five, so it can be concluded that the rate of unemployment in the sector is now coming to the
favourable direction.
CONCLUSION
From the report above it can be concluded that the labour market of UK is now
experiencing good growth. In the report firstly difference between primary, secondary data and
quantitative, qualitative data have been analysed with suitable instances. At the end of the report
labour market information of UK with respect to business and finance sector has been evaluated
and for betterment some recommendations were also extended.
RECOMMENDATIONS
it is recommended to the managers that they must pay attention to the changing
requirements of the market, after the hit of pandemics people are more likely to avail such
services even on higher prices. the labour market is placing challenges for both employers and
employees.

since the employers are looking for better personnel and at the same time the employees
are not able to meet the requirements of the organisations. as the data are showing after
pandemics the market is experiencing robust growth yet the health and social care markets are
having almost same need of better personnel.
the training programmes are having need to be improved. roles like physiotherapist,
occupational therapist, paramedic staff may learn better if postgraduate level study is essential
part of their training.
the market is showing good recovery and unemployment rate is also coming down so in the
upcoming time it may place challenge before the entity to hire the most suitable person for the
job so here it is suggested to keep this notion into consideration.
while making recruitment skills such as empathy in nature, good communication skills,
understanding of the role etc. must be ensured abiding with higher standards. for all NGS
employees national pay rates must be practised, so can eradicate the issues of proper payment.
graduate and post graduate medical students are getting jeopardies while being recruited so it is
essential for the organisations to convince them with better development and educational
programmes so can make them perform with their full potential. these suggestions will be paving
way for eradicating issues of job market due to hit of pandemic.

REFERENCES
Books and journals-
Betcherman, G., Giannakopoulos, 2020. Reacting quickly and protecting jobs: The short-term
impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on the Greek labor market.
Chandola, T., Kumari, 2020. The mental health impact of COVID-19 and lockdown-related
stressors among adults in the UK. Psychological medicine, pp.1-10.
Coles, C. E., Aristei, C., 2020. International guidelines on radiation therapy for breast cancer
during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical Oncology (Royal College of
Radiologists (Great Britain), 32(5), p.279.
David, A. C. and Pienknagura, S., 2021. On the effectiveness of containment measures in
controlling the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of labour market
characteristics and governance. Applied Economics Letters, 28(19),
pp.1641-1647.
Hupkau, C. and Petrongolo, B., 2020. Work, care and gender during the Covid‐19 crisis. Fiscal
studies. 41(3). pp.623-651.
Mayhew, K. and Anand, P., 2020. COVID-19 and the UK labour market. Oxford Review of
Economic Policy, 36(Supplement_1), pp.S215-S224.
Salawu, A., Green, A. 2020. A proposal for multidisciplinary tele-rehabilitation in the assessment
and rehabilitation of COVID-19 survivors. International journal of
environmental research and public health, 17(13). p.4890.
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