The UK labour market and Covid-19: how to measure excess, where to look for it, and what it shows

Wadsworth, Jonathan (2020) The UK labour market and Covid-19: how to measure excess, where to look for it, and what it shows [['eprint_typename_blog_post' not defined]]
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Think the outlook for the UK labour market in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic looks bad? But just how bad? And along which dimensions? Jonathan Wadsworth answers these questions. He concludes that the crisis was marked by higher absences from work as well as a large rise in short-time working and hiring freezes, not by wage cuts and mass layoffs.
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Keywords coronavirus, Covid-19, labour market, labour force survey, indicators, unemployment
Departments LSE
Centre for Economic Performance
Date Deposited 20 Aug 2020 13:33
URI https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105956

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