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The Beveridge curve, or UV curve, was developed in 1958 by Christopher Dow and Leslie Arthur Dicks-Mireaux. [2] [3] They were interested in measuring excess demand in the goods market for the guidance of Keynesian fiscal policies and took British data on vacancies and unemployment in the labour market as a proxy, since excess demand is unobservable.
These figures gave an official UK unemployment rate of 4.7%. [8] UK unemployment rates consistent with this definition are available from 1971. Considering this consistent time series, the highest unemployment rate recorded since 1971 was 11.9% in 1984 and the lowest was 3.4% in late 1973/early 1974. [9]
Annual inflation was 18.0% in 1980, 11.9% in 1981, 8.6% in 1982 and 4.6% in 1983. [citation needed] Interest rates generally declined during the recession from a peak of 17.0% at the beginning of 1980 to a low of 9.6% in October 1982. [citation needed] Early 1990s recession
The Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate fell to 3.5% over the three months to August. UK unemployment falls to lowest since 1974 amid rise in long-term sickness Skip to main ...
Sport England’s latest Active Lives Survey showed 1.18 million children and young people are playing the sport on a weekly basis.
At the first Euro finals for Great Britain after the formation of British Basketball, the national team were drawn into a tough Group C, which featured European heavyweights Spain, and Serbia along with a feisty Slovenia squad. However, the team was overmatched by the international experience those national sides possessed, and ultimately ...
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The early 1980s recession was a severe economic recession that affected much of the world between approximately the start of 1980 and 1982. [2] [1] [3] Long-term effects of the early 1980s recession contributed to the Latin American debt crisis, long-lasting slowdowns in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan African countries, [3] the US savings and loan crisis, and a general adoption of neoliberal ...