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Is the pay squeeze finally over?

In this edition of our UK Quarterly Review, we take a close look at the outlook for earnings. After enduring the biggest decline in real wages since the 1920s, are workers finally set to see the benefits of the economic recovery in their pay packets? Or has a fundamental shift occurred, meaning that workers will no longer share in the proceeds of growth?

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