However, signs are emerging of significant job loss and of growing shortages of productive employment, which are aggravated by the reduction of emigration flows.
Data released in November showed 577,000 immigrants arrived in Britain in 2007, 14,000 fewer than the year before (although emigration fell faster, lifting net migration).
The best way to reduce the number of traffic accidents is to make all young drivers complete a safe driving education course before being licensed to drive.
Businesses can locate based on other considerations, such as the availability of labour, while worrying less about the cost of delivering their output.
In implementing systems with high concurrency requirements we can devise finer grained locking strategies based on the access requirements of the operations, hence reducing contention for resources.