Skilled and unskilled employment in UK manufacturing over the 1980s
Abstract
Investigates changes in skilled and unskilled employment over the 1980s using UK data skills from the Labour Force Survey and the New Earnings Survey Panel Data set, matched with industrial data from the Census of Production. The major findings are: that there was a rise in non‐manual wage and employment shares over the 1980s but only a slight rise in that of the skilled; and that in industries where foreign competition intensified the manual wage share fell, but there was no significant effect on the unskilled.
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Citation
Haskel, J. and Jukes, R. (1995), "Skilled and unskilled employment in UK manufacturing over the 1980s", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 36-52. https://doi.org/10.1108/01437729510146965
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:MCB UP Ltd
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