Our Findings


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 whyThe Conversation [link, french version]
  • Reasons To Be Cheerful Podcastinterview with David ZM about our work on the “Great Resignation” [link]
  • Job search and mismatch during the Covid-19 pandemicVoxEU [link]
  • The truth about the “Great Resignation” – who changed jobs, where they went and whyThe 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.

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]