5 posts categorised "Yong Jing Teow"

08 March 2013

Women in work – UK slides down PwC rankings

By Yong Jing Teow and John Hawksworth To mark International Women’s Day (8th March) new PwC research reveals women in the UK are less likely to be in full-time work and experience greater pay inequality than their counterparts in other developed countries. Our new PwC Women in Work Index shows...

05 November 2012

Can UK exporters break into the BRICs?

By John Hawksworth and Yong Jing Teow UK exports have not grown as fast as some had hoped in recent years. Much of this can be attributed to the slowdown in the UK’s key European and US markets, and it was common even just a few years ago to hear...

09 July 2012

Is the UK lagging behind other G7 economies?

By John Hawksworth and Yong Jing Teow The experience of the UK economy over the recovery period since mid-2009 has been relatively disappointing: growth seems to have stalled, inflation has remained stubbornly above target, unemployment has increased since early 2011 and productivity growth has been sluggish. This might be explained...

27 June 2012

How big is the global pay gap?

By John Hawksworth and Yong Jing Teow Relative wage levels are a key factor in business location decisions, but until now there was a lack of decent comparable data on wage levels beyond the OECD countries. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has addressed this recently by producing estimates of average...

17 May 2012

Youthful South could outpace ageing North

By Yong Jing Teow, PwC Economist Over the course of the current decade the world will experience dramatic changes in its demographic profile as the figure below shows. Industrialised countries in the Northern hemisphere are expected to see their populations age and exit the labour force – an inevitable consequence...