Since the start of the recession, the output per worker in the UK has fallen by 3 per cent. This is extraordinary. In a recent speech, Ben Broadbent, a member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, notes that if the pre-crisis relationship between output and employment still held, the number of jobs would have fallen by 8 per cent since mid-2007. Yet employment has risen since then. It has also apparently risen since early 2010, despite stagnant output and falling public sector employment.
自衰退開始以來,英國工人人均產出下降3%。這非同尋常。英國央行(Bank of England)貨幣政策委員會成員本•布羅德本特(Ben Broadbent)在最近的一場演講中指出,如果危機前的產出與就業之間的關係仍成立的話,就業崗位數量自2007年中期以來將會下降8%。然而自那時以來就業崗位卻有所增加。就業崗位自2010年初以來也明顯增加,儘管產出成長停滯,並且公共部門就業人數不斷下降。