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The impact of covid furlough schemes still linger on

The UK labour market has changed forever and policymakers do not know how to deal with it
January 8, 2024
  • Plentiful vacancies sounds like a nice economic problem to have
  • So why are economists so worried about the tight labour market?

The labour market is tight: jobs are plentiful but available workers are scarce, as the chart shows. Given how bad the outlook for the economy was just a year ago, this feels like quite a good position to be in. So why are economists so concerned? 

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