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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK

Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022

This paper studies whether labor market mismatch played an important role for labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework of S¸ahin et al. (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third quarter...

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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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Real Wages and Labour Productivity in Britain and Germany, 1871-1938 : A Unified Approach to the International Comparison of Living Standards

Broadberry, Stephen N.; Burhop, Carsten - 2009

Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...

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How can temporary work agencies provide more training? : staffing agencies could play a more prominent role in the provision of training for the low qualified and previously unempl...

Spermann, Alexander - 2016

Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often...

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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …

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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence from PIAAC

Jovicic, Sonja - 2015

distributions and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Some … by labor market institutions) is often seen as a cause for high unemployment in the low-skill sector. Does the wage …

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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence and policy lessons from PIAAC

Jovicic, Sonja - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-26

distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Wage dispersion and wage structure are widely debated … among policymakers; compressed wage structure is often perceived as an important cause of high unemployment. Firstly, this …

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