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How better local employment support could help tackle UK labour shortages

Written by Abigail Taylor, Research Fellow, City-Region Economic Development Institute (City-REDI), University of Birmingham

Economically inactive people -- those neither working nor actively seeking jobs -- could help tackle UK labour shortages.1000 Words/Shutterstock

There has been a rise in “economic inactivity” in the UK among people of working age since the start of the COVID pandemic. Although the trend peaked last year, an additional 420,000 people are...

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