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Furlough: where did the hours go?
The economic fallout from Covid-19 is likely to significantly increase regional inequalities

By
Alex Chapman, Lukasz Krebel
23 September 2020

As we stare down the barrel of a second Covid-19 wave, the government’s plan to end the Job Retention Scheme (JRS) in October is in the spotlight. There is widespread concern for how significant the resulting increase in unemployment could be and which regions and workers might be worst affected. When it comes to looking at the geographical uptake of furlough, the government states ​“there was broad

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