As the United States confronts an ever-changing set of international challenges, our foreign policy leaders continue to offer the same old answers. But what are the alternatives? In None Of The Above, the Eurasia Group Institute for Global Affairs' Mark Hannah asks leading global thinkers for new answers and new ideas to guide an America increasingly adrift in the world. www.noneoftheabovepodcast.org
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26: Is ill health driving economic inactivity, and what can be done about it? – with Sarah O’Connor and Professor James Banks
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תוכן מסופק על ידי The Health Foundation. כל תוכן הפודקאסטים כולל פרקים, גרפיקה ותיאורי פודקאסטים מועלים ומסופקים ישירות על ידי The Health Foundation או שותף פלטפורמת הפודקאסט שלהם. אם אתה מאמין שמישהו משתמש ביצירה שלך המוגנת בזכויות יוצרים ללא רשותך, אתה יכול לעקוב אחר התהליך המתואר כאן https://he.player.fm/legal.
We're all familiar with some of the challenges ahead in the UK: a fiscal squeeze, limp productivity, a labour shortage and an ageing population with increasing needs.
As Andy Haldane put it in our recent REAL Challenge lecture, two routes to prosperity for the UK include increasing the number of workers and their productivity. But both of these routes now appear to be hampered by increasing ill health.
As Andy Haldane put it in our recent REAL Challenge lecture, two routes to prosperity for the UK include increasing the number of workers and their productivity. But both of these routes now appear to be hampered by increasing ill health.
Since the pandemic, 600,000 working people have become economically inactive – that’s the size of the city of Manchester taken out of the economy. Two-thirds are the over 50s who've left and aren't looking for work. And at the other end of life, younger people entering work are reporting markedly more ill health due to depression and anxiety, and more young men in particular are economically inactive.
Can we carry on like this if our economy is to recover? Or is it now time for us to get serious about these trends, and how?
To discuss, our chief executive Dr Jennifer Dixon is joined by:
Can we carry on like this if our economy is to recover? Or is it now time for us to get serious about these trends, and how?
To discuss, our chief executive Dr Jennifer Dixon is joined by:
- Sarah O’Connor, employment columnist at the Financial Times.
- James Banks, Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Show notes
- Health is wealth? REAL Challenge annual lecture (2022) The Health Foundation
- Is poor health driving a rise in economic inactivity? (2022) The Health Foundation
- Proportion of UK workers on low pay at lowest level since 1997 (2022) Financial Times
- There is a deepening mental health recession (2022) Financial Times
- Is worsening health leading to more older workers quitting work, driving up rates of economic inactivity? (2022) IFS
- The rise in economic inactivity among people in their 50s and 60s (2022) IFS
- Half a million more people are out of the labour force because of long-term sickness (2022) ONS
- Reasons for workers aged over 50 years leaving employment since the start of the coronavirus pandemic: wave 2
- New Polling for Phoenix Insights (2022) Public First
- Mental health conditions, work and the workplace (2022) Health and Safety Executive
- Labour Market Statistics, October 2022 (2022) Institute for employment studies
- Economic inactivity and the labour market experience of the long-term sick (2022) Jonathan Haskel and Josh Martin (this piece is currently a work in progress and a preliminary download has been made available by the authors)
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תוכן מסופק על ידי The Health Foundation. כל תוכן הפודקאסטים כולל פרקים, גרפיקה ותיאורי פודקאסטים מועלים ומסופקים ישירות על ידי The Health Foundation או שותף פלטפורמת הפודקאסט שלהם. אם אתה מאמין שמישהו משתמש ביצירה שלך המוגנת בזכויות יוצרים ללא רשותך, אתה יכול לעקוב אחר התהליך המתואר כאן https://he.player.fm/legal.
We're all familiar with some of the challenges ahead in the UK: a fiscal squeeze, limp productivity, a labour shortage and an ageing population with increasing needs.
As Andy Haldane put it in our recent REAL Challenge lecture, two routes to prosperity for the UK include increasing the number of workers and their productivity. But both of these routes now appear to be hampered by increasing ill health.
As Andy Haldane put it in our recent REAL Challenge lecture, two routes to prosperity for the UK include increasing the number of workers and their productivity. But both of these routes now appear to be hampered by increasing ill health.
Since the pandemic, 600,000 working people have become economically inactive – that’s the size of the city of Manchester taken out of the economy. Two-thirds are the over 50s who've left and aren't looking for work. And at the other end of life, younger people entering work are reporting markedly more ill health due to depression and anxiety, and more young men in particular are economically inactive.
Can we carry on like this if our economy is to recover? Or is it now time for us to get serious about these trends, and how?
To discuss, our chief executive Dr Jennifer Dixon is joined by:
Can we carry on like this if our economy is to recover? Or is it now time for us to get serious about these trends, and how?
To discuss, our chief executive Dr Jennifer Dixon is joined by:
- Sarah O’Connor, employment columnist at the Financial Times.
- James Banks, Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Show notes
- Health is wealth? REAL Challenge annual lecture (2022) The Health Foundation
- Is poor health driving a rise in economic inactivity? (2022) The Health Foundation
- Proportion of UK workers on low pay at lowest level since 1997 (2022) Financial Times
- There is a deepening mental health recession (2022) Financial Times
- Is worsening health leading to more older workers quitting work, driving up rates of economic inactivity? (2022) IFS
- The rise in economic inactivity among people in their 50s and 60s (2022) IFS
- Half a million more people are out of the labour force because of long-term sickness (2022) ONS
- Reasons for workers aged over 50 years leaving employment since the start of the coronavirus pandemic: wave 2
- New Polling for Phoenix Insights (2022) Public First
- Mental health conditions, work and the workplace (2022) Health and Safety Executive
- Labour Market Statistics, October 2022 (2022) Institute for employment studies
- Economic inactivity and the labour market experience of the long-term sick (2022) Jonathan Haskel and Josh Martin (this piece is currently a work in progress and a preliminary download has been made available by the authors)
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