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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