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.
自衰退开始以来,英国工人人均产出下降3%。这非同寻常。英国央行(Bank of England)货币政策委员会成员本•布罗德本特(Ben Broadbent)在最近的一场演讲中指出,如果危机前的产出与就业之间的关系仍成立的话,就业岗位数量自2007年中期以来将会下降8%。然而自那时以来就业岗位却有所增加。就业岗位自2010年初以来也明显增加,尽管产出增长停滞,并且公共部门就业人数不断下降。