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The anatomy of job polarisation in the UK
Salvatori, Andrea - In: Journal for labour market research 52 (2018) 8, pp. 1-15
This paper studies the contribution of different skill groups to the polarisation of the UK labour market. We show that the large increase in graduate numbers contributed to the substantial reallocation of employment from middling to top occupations which is the main feature of the polarisation...
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A Quality-Adjusted Labor Input Series for the United Kingdom (1975-2002)
Bell, Venetia - 2006
In this paper, annual indices of labor input adjusted for the education, age and gender distributions of the UK workforce are presented for the period 1975-2002. These measures show that improvement in labor quality, as proxied by education, age and gender, has added on average 0.67 percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734878
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The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders : a European perspective
Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022
, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275384
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The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders : a European perspective
Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022
, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013284869
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Employee involvement, technology and job tasks
Green, Francis - 2009
generic skills. Going beyond the technology, I investigate whether organisational changes requiring greater employee … involvement raises the sorts of generic skills that human resource management models predict, in particular three categories of … communication skills and self-planning skills. These effects are found to be independent of the effect of computers on generic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003814426
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Better using skills in the workplace in the Leeds City Region, United Kingdom
OECD - 2020
This paper reviews the different definitions and measures of skills use and shows why it matters for local development … policies. Based on findings from the Annual Population Survey and the UK Employer Skills Survey, it provides unique local … analysis on how the Leeds City Region compares on skills use relative to other Local Enterprise Partnerships. It then outlines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227512
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The changing graduate labour market : analysis using a new indicator of graduate jobs
Green, Francis; Henseke, Golo - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 14, pp. 1-25
British Skills and Employment Survey series, we analyse trends in the labour market between 1997/2001 and 2006/2012. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522340
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The effect of computer use on job quality : evidence from Europe
Menon, Seetha; Salvatori, Andrea; Zwysen, Wouter - 2018
This paper studies changes in computer use and job quality in the EU-15 between 1995 and 2015. We document that while the proportion of workers using computers has increased from 40% to more than 60% over twenty years, there remain significant differences between countries even within the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796052
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The Over-Education Wage Penalty Among Phd Holders : A European Perspective
Rycx, Francois; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022
, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081009
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The Anatomy of Job Polarisation in the UK
Salvatori, Andrea - 2015
This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation over time and across skill groups in the UK between 1979 and 2012. The UK has experienced job polarisation in each of the last three decades, with growth in top jobs always exceeding that in bottom ones. Overall, top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016337