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

Jonathan Wadsworth


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 ? Continued


28 July 2020


LSE British Politics and Policy


https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/labour-market-covid19/

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