How Brexit impacts service jobs

The service sector accounts for the majority of the British economy, however most of the Brexit debate has focused on trade of goods and tariffs. Interviewed at the CEPR’s June 2022 Paris Symposium, Beata Javorcik talks about her research on the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum and consequent prospect of higher barriers to services exports on the UK job market.

[genghisthegreat]

Writing from the EU, it is difficult to see how EU Service Providers can consider bidding in Public Procurement competitions in JV structures with a British partner.

The validity of the collective bid will depend on compliance of each member of the JV with requirements of the contracting authority. Who's going to take the risk of losing the whole bid, with growing divergence between Britain and the EU on labour, environmental, technical standards ?

Who'd even take the risk that a losing bidder would trawl for evidence of noncompliance in legal discovery.?

Much safer to stay with EU Partners.

[MegaRugster]

Yeh well we used to have industry, but when we joined the eu and got scammed into the single market, all our industry was destroyed and sold off.. so all we have left are research, finance and infrastructure jobs and some tourism.. thanks eu.. now you know why we left.. we want it all back. And in time we will get it all back.

There are tons of jobs being advertised, more jobs than people to do them atm. The main current obstacle to work is covid legislation. ie only 4 to a cubicle where before there were 8 or 20 to a work line where before there were 60.