Shifts in the job structure in Europe during the Great Recession: Technical background paper

Hurley, John; Storrie, Donald; Jungblut, Jean-Marie

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Shifts in the job structure in Europe during the Great Recession: Technical background paper

Publié: 10 October 2011

John Hurleyand 2 other authors

Situation d’emploi

Job creation

Structure de l’emploi

Structural change

The report describes the impact of the ‘great recession’ on employment and the job structure in the EU27. Quintile charts are used to give a simple, graphical representation of the extent of employment change in a given period as well as an indication of how that change has been distributed across jobs of different pay or skill levels. This technical background paper provides the full set of quintile charts associated with the 'job shifts' report. Read the full report and executive summary - see Related content.

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Nombre de pages

26

N° de référence

EF11418

Rapport de recherche

16 January 2012

Shifts in the job structure in Europe during the Great Recession

This report describes the impact of the ‘great recession’ on employment and the job structure in the EU27. It finds that despite a net loss of over five million jobs between 2008–2010, employment continued to grow in top-paying jobs, largely in knowledge-intensive services and business services. Meanwhile, sharp losses in medium-paying jobs in construction and manufacturing led to a shrinking of employment in the middle of the wage spectrum. More jobs were lost to men than to women and employment levels of older workers grew while those of core-age and, in particular, younger workers declined. Part-time work expanded across the wage spectrum while levels of temporary employment began to recover quickly from 2009 onwards after having borne the brunt of the early-recession job losses.