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Featured article: The anatomy of job polarisation in the UK

This paper, by Andrea Salvatori, studies the contribution of different skill groups to the polarisation of the UK labour market. It shows that the large increase in graduate numbers contributed to the substantial reallocation of employment from middling to top occupations which is the main feature of the polarisation process in the UK over the past three decades. The increase in the number of immigrants, on the other hand, does not account for any particular aspect of the polarisation in the UK. Changes in the skill mix of the workforce account for most of the decline in routine employment across the occupational distribution, but within-group changes account for most of the decline in routine occupations in middling occupations.


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