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Productivity Puzzle

This term describes a prolonged period where economic output per hour worked stagnates despite high employment levels. In the UK context, it highlights the mysterious post-2008 failure of worker efficiency to recover to pre-crisis trends, directly constraining real wage growth and limiting improvements in household living standards.

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