Shaking foundations

The Guardian has a nifty interactive graphic on the troubles facing the UK building industry during the property slump. Housing is one of the classic examples of an industry where cyclical changes in demand feed through very quickly into the number of jobs on offer in construction - a sizeable number of workers do not have permanent contracts, and this applies right the way through the industry from builders to the building supply sectors. The BBC considers whether London 2012 will provide a sufficiently big boost to demand and jobs to partly offset the current downturn.

Unit 2 Macro: Cyclical and Structural Economic Issues Facing the UK [23 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Migration and the UK Economy [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Positive and Negative Multiplier Effects [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The Importance of Productivity [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Measuring Inflation in the UK [20 May 2012]
Q&A: What do we need to know about output gaps? [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Bank Cuts UK growth Forecast for 2012 [16 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Poverty and Inequality and Market Failure [12 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Revision Notes on Supply-side Policies [10 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Blogs on Markets and Intervention [10 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Model answer for revision data question [9 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Economic Cycle Glossary [5 May 2012]
Macro Revision: Putting Things in Context [29 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Heathow’s Capacity and Connectivity Crunch [22 Apr 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision on Maximum Rents in Housing [1 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Revision on Capital Investment [30 Mar 2012]
Life in the Slow Lane - UK Growth in 2011 Lags the Euro Area [28 Mar 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Government launches New Buy Loan Guarantee Scheme [12 Mar 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Policies to Drive Economic Recovery [9 Mar 2012]
Martin Wolf on Global Shocks [10 Feb 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: A Jobs Boost for the US Economy [8 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The UK Housing Market in 2011 [26 Dec 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Empty Housing and Economic Efficiency [15 Dec 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Will a Youth Jobs Subsidy Work? [30 Nov 2011]
Behavioural Economics: Herd Behaviour [28 Nov 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: A Prezi on Unemployment Policies [16 Nov 2011]
AS Macro: The State of British Business [13 Nov 2011]
UK Macro: Risks of a Double Dip Recession [12 Sep 2011]
Starter Video: The Slums of Manilla [11 Sep 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: Reducing Unemployment after a Recession [11 Jul 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: FirstBuy, Affordability and Effective Demand in Property [10 Jul 2011]
Chinese inward investment in the London property market [12 Jun 2011]
A2 Macro: Consumer Spending [30 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Economic Recovery [23 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Recession [23 May 2011]
A2 Micro: The Importance of Profit [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Moving Away from Profit Max [18 May 2011]
AS Macro: Extended House Price Deflation? [5 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Innovation in Markets [4 May 2011]
AS Micro: Importance of Elasticity of Supply [23 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Double-Dip Recession [8 Apr 2011]
Tracking the effects of the recession on GDP [5 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Bubble [4 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Fiscal Deficit [3 Apr 2011]
Timetric: Mortgage Lending and Mortgage Rates [14 Mar 2011]
Ireland - Mass Unemployment and Shrinking GDP [10 Mar 2011]
EU Economics: Germany leads Euro Zone revival [25 Feb 2011]
Combining monetary and fiscal policy to curb inflation in China [16 Feb 2011]
David Smith on Shifting Sands in the Global Economy [8 Feb 2011]
Economics Q&A: Will the rise in VAT harm the UK’s economic performance? [17 Jan 2011]
Economics Q&A: Why might Europe’s weaker economies struggle to grow in the next few years? [2 Jan 2011]
EU Economics: EU Economy in Charts Jan 2011 [29 Dec 2010]
Extend and Enrich with EconoMax [29 Oct 2010]
Beware the return of the Gazunderer [16 Oct 2010]
Currency wars [27 Sep 2010]
Hysteresis in the US Economy [21 Sep 2010]
Housing market and negative equity [31 Aug 2010]
Reasons to fear a jobless recovery [11 Aug 2010]
Consumer sentiment weakens as double dip looms [2 Aug 2010]
Where next for the UK economy? [23 Jul 2010]
China’s housing market - fantastic interactive resource [7 Jun 2010]
Unit 2 Macro: How can supply-side policies help in a recession? [6 Jun 2010]
Housing and the British Economy [5 Jun 2010]
Paul Krugman at the LSE [2 Jun 2010]
AS Macro Revision: Consumer Borrowing [30 May 2010]
Euro Land and Optimal Currency Areas - A Valentine’s Day Massacre [29 May 2010]
Warnings of hysteresis for the EU economy [29 May 2010]
Two examples of government failure [20 May 2010]
UK inflation hits 17-month high [18 May 2010]
The Financial Crisis and Beyond [6 May 2010]
Business profits and the recession [1 May 2010]
A2 Economics Revision - From Budget surplus to deficit [1 May 2010]
AS Economics Revision - Dissecting the Recession [1 May 2010]
Issues and Prospects for the UK Economy in 2010 [25 Apr 2010]
RES Essay Competition: Preventing Housing Bubbles [12 Apr 2010]
Paris punishes the purse strings [12 Mar 2010]
UK CEOs on their recession strategies [23 Feb 2010]
2009 - a desperately difficult year for airlines [27 Jan 2010]
50-year decline in housing affordability [20 Jan 2010]
Unemployment and the UK economic cycle [23 Dec 2009]
Impact of global recession on developing countries [18 Dec 2009]
Is monetary policy becoming less effective? [16 Dec 2009]
New figures show extent of wealth inequality in the UK [11 Dec 2009]
Reasons to expect a Nike Swoosh recovery [13 Nov 2009]
Warning - Businesses at Risk from Economic Recovery [26 Oct 2009]
13% fall in household wealth will shape any 2010 rebound [25 Oct 2009]
Classroom Activity - Economic Cycle in Pictures [20 Oct 2009]
Gloomy summary [13 Oct 2009]
The UK Economy - a Long Run Perspective [7 Oct 2009]
Are the Japanese the latest victims of a strengthening currency? [28 Sep 2009]
Pain in Spain - on the brink of depression [26 Sep 2009]
Paul Mason on Economic Aftershocks [21 Sep 2009]
The Wealth Effect [12 Sep 2009]
More ‘Aftershock’ resources [12 Sep 2009]
Keynes and the Multiplier Effect [3 Sep 2009]
Hysteresis [1 Sep 2009]
Businesses call for youth jobs subsidy [26 Aug 2009]
What happens when the hose pipe is turned off? [23 Aug 2009]
Deflation in the European Economy [14 Aug 2009]
Unemployment in the UK labour market [13 Aug 2009]

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