Can unemployment keep falling?

Despite relatively sluggish GDP growth in the first half of 2017, jobs growth has maintained a solid pace, with the unemployment rate having now fallen below the Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC) estimate of its “equilibrium” rate. Accordingly, with limited slack left in the labour market, for how much longer can the improvement in the jobs market continue?

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