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Has the North—South divide come to an end?—Prospects for regional unemployment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

David Wilkinson
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The large increase in unemployment in the last two years and the very different patterns of regional unemployment growth as compared to the last recession have brought about renewed interest in the distribution of unemployment. In the last two years the variation in regional unemployment rates has diminished significantly such that by August of this year all regions in Great Britain had an unemployment rate somewhere between the 11.4 per cent in the North and the 7.8 per cent in East Anglia. Ignoring these two outliers, the remaining eight regions in Great Britain all had unemployment rates between 8.9 and 10.8 percent.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 142 , November 1992 , pp. 88 - 98
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Copyright © 1992 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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I would like to thank Andrew Britton, Paul Gregg and Nicholas Oulton for many useful comments.

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