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Labour Cash Earnings (Mar.)

The recent slump in wage growth reflects sampling changes as well as falling working hours. Given the current level of the unemployment rate, wages should be growing by around 1% and we expect a rebound in working hours to provide a tailwind over coming months. But as economic activity remains weak and the labour market slackens, we expect wage growth to keep falling short of last year’s strong gains.

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