On this page you can find all of the work we produced as part of our grant project. This includes non-technical writing and press coverage, policy briefings, and academic articles, listed in the sections below.
Press coverage and non-technical writings
This section contains non-technical articles we have written about our work for journalistic outlets, and press coverage of our work.
- Where did all Britain’s 50-somethings go? — The Economist [link]
- Sick Britain: where have all the workers gone? — The New Statesman [link]
- Latest Labour Market Snapshot (up to 2022Q2) — [link]
- Labour Shortages interactive calculator tool — [link]
- Over-50s are resigning en masse — new research explains who and why — The Conversation [link, french version]
- Reasons To Be Cheerful Podcast — interview with David ZM about our work on the “Great Resignation” [link]
- Job search and mismatch during the Covid-19 pandemic — VoxEU [link]
- The truth about the “Great Resignation” – who changed jobs, where they went and why — The Conversation [link]
Policy briefings
The policy briefing notes in this section are semi-technical write ups of our research on key policy issues facing the UK economy post-Covid. For shorter summaries of these briefings you can also read the press articles in the section above.
- UK Labour Supply: Investigating Economic Inactivity [policy note]
- Rising Inactivity in the Over 50s post-COVID [policy note]
- The Great Resignation [policy note]
Academic articles
The academic articles in this section were researched and written as part of the grant project. These are typically more technical write ups of our work. For a simpler summary of the first paper see our VoxEU column. The second paper forms the basis of our Labour Shortages work, and so for a simpler exposition you can look at our interactive website.
Papers analysing COVID data:
- Search and Reallocation in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the UK [Carrillo-Tudela, Clymo, Comunello, Jäckle, Visschers & Zentler-Munro, forthcoming, Labour Economics. working paper]
- Sectoral Labour Flows Accounting [slides, working paper coming soon]
Other papers analysing non-COVID data and foundational theory:
- Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle [Carrillo-Tudela & Visschers, Econometrica. working paper]
- Cyclical Earnings, Career and Employment Transitions [Carrillo-Tudela, Visschers & Wiczer, working paper]