TY - JOUR
AU - Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos
AU - Clymo, Alex
AU - Comunello, Camila
AU - Jäckle, Annette
AU - Visschers, Ludo
AU - Zentler-Munro, David
PY - 2023
DA - January
TI - Search and reallocation in the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from the UK
JO - Labour Economics
VL - 81
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102328
AB - The impact of the pandemic on the UK labour market has been extremely heterogeneous across occupation and industries. Using novel data on job search, we document how individuals adjust their job search in response to changing employment patterns across occupations and industries in the UK. We observe that workers changed their search direction in favour of expanding occupations and industries as the pandemic developed. However, non-employed workers are more attached to their previous occupations and workers with low education are more likely to target declining occupations. We also observe workers from declining occupations making fewer transitions to expanding occupations than those who start in expanding occupations, despite targeting these jobs relatively frequently. This suggests those at the margins of the labour market may be least able to escape occupations that declined during the pandemic.
PB - Elsevier
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/670a5a3e-3270-4926-8e4c-149f04120107
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Work and workforce
ER