Unemployment

24,000 tickets will be issued to jobseekers up to March 2015.

Professor Sir George Bain says the rate has been a clear success but now needs strengthening.

Martin Weale, MPC member, says gradual rate increase likely to happen in first half of 2015.

Toni Pearce says the problem for current students and study leavers is not simply graduate employment.

Totaljobs says 44% of respondents said they regret not studying something more vocational.

Mayor of Florence given mandate to form new government by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano

Sir Albert Bore, Birmingham City Council Leader, says the council needs to make hard decisions.

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney rejigs forward guidance away from unemployment rate as it falls below 7%.

US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen says too many long-term unemployed in labour market.

Astbury Marsden says 3,350 new city jobs were created in January, almost triple the 1,340 jobs created in December 2013

The power supply maker says it had to make the move due to slow growth and intense competition.

The country's National Statistics Institute says the number of people out of work fell by 8,400.

Monster.co.uk says nearly half of all British workers think of their current job as a stop gap.

IBTimes UK takes a look at the most important data from the ONS' job figures.

The ONS says the country's jobless rate is just 0.1% off the BoE's threshold.

Rising house prices and increasing unemployment force young adults to stay in family home.

English and maths tests for the unemployed? That's not the real problem

But the TUC says the likelihood of having a job has increased since the 2010 General Election.

Shadow work and pensions secretary excepted to announce tougher rules.

Economists predict that Mark Carney could consider interest rate rise sooner than predicted.

Eurostat shows a gap in GDP growth rates between counties that use the euro and other EU members.

Unison says the "worst is yet to come" following the spending round in 2013.

ELSTAT says there were 1.3 million out of work in Greece in October.

Matteo Renzi, leader of the centre-left Democratic Party, wants to reduce company costs.

Official figures show there were 55,000 fewer people in work in November compared with the month before.

The country's Labour Office says the number of people out of work is now 2.965 million.

Lazy? Workshy? Feckless? Here are some figures to put Benefits Street into perspective.

Unemployment stands at 7% and is expected to fall further.

Europe's biggest economy now has 41.78 million people in work.

Luis de Guindos, the nation's economy minister, is optimistic about the future.