Housing market: Economic indicators
Find the latest data on house prices, mortgage approvals, and house building in the UK.
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The productivity puzzle (124KB PDF)
When a country enters recession and output contracts we expect to see productivity fall, but that it will rise as the economy recovers.
At the onset of the economic crisis in 2008, productivity in the UK fell. However, it has remained weak and relatively unchanged since then.
This note looks at some of the suggested reasons why productivity in the UK has not recovered to its previous levels – the so called ‘productivity puzzle’
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The productivity puzzle (124KB PDF)
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