{"id":47,"date":"2019-11-04T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T12:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/?p=47"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T12:01:53","slug":"drop-in-labour-productivity-in-q2-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/2019\/11\/04\/drop-in-labour-productivity-in-q2-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop in labour productivity in Q2 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour productivity in Q2 2019 was down by 0.5%, compared with the same quarter for 2018, according to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/employmentandlabourmarket\/peopleinwork\/labourproductivity\/bulletins\/labourproductivity\/apriltojune2019#labour-productivity-data\">Office for National Statistics report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ONS report shows a dip in productivity across the U.K with consecutive quarters of zero growth in 2019. This represents a continuation of the <strong>&#8220;productivity puzzle&#8221;<\/strong>, with productivity since the 2008 downturn growing more slowly than during the long period prior to the downturn.<\/p>\n<p>The reports also highlights the contrast with past downturns during which productivity initially fell, but subsequently recovered in a relatively sustained fashion whilst returning to the previous trend rate of growth.<\/p>\n<p>Non-manufacturing (e.g. agriculture, forestry and fishing; mining and quarrying; electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning supply; and water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities) and construction industries offer a positive contribution but are outpaced by negative growth in all other industries. At the same time, services productivity growth fell 0.8% as hours worked grew faster than gross value added.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour productivity in Q2 2019 was down by 0.5%, compared with the same quarter for 2018, according to the latest Office for National Statistics report. The ONS report shows a dip in productivity across the U.K with consecutive quarters of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/2019\/11\/04\/drop-in-labour-productivity-in-q2-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}