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(chǎn)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(jī)前的產(chǎn)出與就業(yè)之間的關(guān)系仍成立的話，就業(yè)崗位數(shù)量自2007年中期以來將會下降8%。然而自那時以來就業(yè)崗位卻有所增加。就業(yè)崗位自2010年初以來也明顯增加，盡管產(chǎn)出增長停滯，并且公共部門就業(yè)人數(shù)不斷下降。