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UK youth unemployment has nearly doubled since 2022. The unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds not in full-time education has risen from 7.6% to 14.6%, its highest since 2014 and above the COVID-19 peak. A weakening labour market is hitting young people hardest. #ChartOfTheDay
JUST PUBLISHED – World Cup 2026 previews for Groups A and B: what does scorecasting suggest?
By J. James Reade
TODAY on the Economics Observatory – Are more trains the answer to economic struggles in the North of England?
by Paul Swinney
The Philippines experiences some of the world's most frequent seismic activity, recording over 40 earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater in the past 5 years. The 7.8 earthquake that struck off Mindanao this week was the largest in this period, surpassing the previous high of 7.6 from December 2023.
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Digital industries make up nearly 12% of London's economy — almost double the UK average of 7.2%.
As #LondonTechWeek starts today, the latest DCMS data confirms that the capital is by far the UK's most digitally intensive regional economy.
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In their recent paper, Lambert & Schindler find that remote work, rather than AI, appears to be the main factor behind the decline in early-career hiring. Accounting for how remote a role is, the apparent AI effect fades, while the remote-work effect holds #ChartOfTheDay
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