Abstract:
This chapter presents an analysis of changing job and pay structures in the UK, constructing for this purpose a novel dataset covering each year from 1975 to 2015 linking different datasets and ensuring that key variables such as occupation are captured on as consistent a basis as possible. This provides the information base required to investigate job polarization in a much more disaggregated fashion than previously possible, allowing important distinctions to be made by gender, sector, and region, between full- versus part-time workers, and across birth-cohorts. The analyses are thus able to reveal the differing implications of long-term trends in job structures and pay for these different groups, and bring out what the varying patterns reveal about the underlying processes at work in the labour market.
Citation:
Cristini, A., Geraci, A., & Muellbauer, J. (2018), 'Sifting through the ASHE', Oxford Scholarship Online, Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807056.003.0008