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Has technology hurt less skilled workers? An econometric survey of the effects of technical change on the structure of pay and jobs
Chennells, Lucy; Reenen, John Van - 1999
computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330338
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Why has in-work poverty risen in Britain?
Bourquin, Pascale; Cribb, Jonathan; Waters, Tom; Xu, Xiaowei - 2019
An increasing proportion of people towards the bottom of the UK's income distribution are in a household where someone is in paid work. Working households comprised 37% of those below the official poverty line in 1994-95 and 58% in 2017-18. Much of that increase is due to trends that seem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265310
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Jobs and job quality between the eve of the Great Recession and the eve of COVID-19
Bourquin, Pascale; Waters, Tom - 2020
In 2019, the employment rate among 25- to 64-year-olds in the UK reached 80% - the highest on record, and considerably … certain policies and compositional changes on the employment rate. We also investigate how job 'quality' - in both financial … and non-financial terms - has changed. We find that almost all demographic groups and regions saw a rise in employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265349
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Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages
Blundell, Richard W.; Lopez, Hugo; Ziliak, James P. - 2023
model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480547