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Ten steps to a weakening labour market

For some time we have warned that unemployment is likely to rise as economic growth weakens. Indeed, claimant count unemployment has already risen for the last four months in a row. But this far from guarantees that a sustained downturn in the labour market has now arrived. We think that there are ten key “milestones” which will signal that the labour market is undergoing a marked deterioration.

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