{"id":76,"date":"2019-12-05T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T13:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/?p=76"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T13:11:29","slug":"productivity-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/2019\/12\/05\/productivity-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity divide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election-2019-50579787\">article from the BBC<\/a> highlights once again issues dividing the U.K., but not simply in terms of the North-South divide:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>London is producing goods and services worth \u00a326,000 more per person than the per-head average of the North West, North East and Yorkshire regions. In absolute terms, this gap has almost doubled since 2001 (Charlie McCurdy, BBC news)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What the article suggests is that the problem is not individual productivity (how productive a worker is), but more about how the most productive sectors tend to be concentrated in the South of England, such as finance and technology.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, many other gaps are emerging.<\/p>\n<p>The rural-urban gap has closed since the growth of jobs in urban areas since 2009. The regional gap however persists, more within than across U.K. regions.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the Office for National Statistics Labour productivity data available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/employmentandlabourmarket\/peopleinwork\/labourproductivity\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article from the BBC highlights once again issues dividing the U.K., but not simply in terms of the North-South divide: London is producing goods and services worth \u00a326,000 more per person than the per-head average of the North &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/2019\/12\/05\/productivity-divide\/\">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-76","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\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/inclusive-innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}