Why are three million more of us working today in the UK than in 2008? How has our employment rate reached 76 per cent, when full employment before the crisis meant 73 per cent of us working?
These are employment levels no one thought possible a decade ago (see graph below). There is almost no bigger change to our economy over the past decade than the jobs boom. And yet it is poorly understood.
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