@article{670a5a3e327049268e4c149f04120107,
title = "Search and reallocation in the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from the UK",
abstract = "The impact of the pandemic on the UK labour market has been extremely heterogeneous across occupations 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.",
keywords = "job search, occupation mobility, industry mobility, Covid-19 pandemic",
author = "Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Alex Clymo and Camila Comunello and Annette J{\"a}ckle and Ludo Visschers and David Zentler-Munro",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank the Editor and two anonymous referees for their comments and suggestions as well as seminar participants at the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Le Mans University (GAINS), University of Essex Rentree workshop, and EEA-ESEM 2021. Carrillo-Tudela, Clymo, Visschers and Zentler-Munro acknowledge financial support from the UK Economic and Social Research Council , award reference ES/V016970/1 . Visschers acknowledges Fundaci{\'o}n BBVA (Ayudas a Equipos de Investigaci{\'o}n Cient{\'i}fica SARS-CoV-2 y COVID-19). The Understanding Society COVID-19 Study was funded by UK Economic and Social Research Council ( ES/K005146/1 ) and the Health Foundation (2076161). The usual disclaimer applies. Funding Information: We would like to thank the Editor and two anonymous referees for their comments and suggestions as well as seminar participants at the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Le Mans University (GAINS), University of Essex Rentree workshop, and EEA-ESEM 2021. Carrillo-Tudela, Clymo, Visschers and Zentler-Munro acknowledge financial support from the UK Economic and Social Research Council, award reference ES/V016970/1. Visschers acknowledges Fundaci{\'o}n BBVA (Ayudas a Equipos de Investigaci{\'o}n Cient{\'i}fica SARS-CoV-2 y COVID-19). The Understanding Society COVID-19 Study was funded by UK Economic and Social Research Council (ES/K005146/1) and the Health Foundation (2076161). The usual disclaimer applies. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 The Author(s)",
year = "2023",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102328",
language = "English",
volume = "81",
journal = "Labour Economics",
issn = "0927-5371",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}