Underemployment and the Lack of Wage Pressure in the UK

David N.F. Bell and David Blanchflower

National Institute Economic Review, 2018, vol. 243, issue 1, R53-R61

Abstract: In this note, we focus on underemployment as a potential cause of lower wage growth, which itself may have deeper causes, but which has, we would argue, demonstrably changed since the 2008 recession. The gap between our measures of the number of additional hours required by those who want more hours and the number who want less has narrowed recently. Neither have returned to their pre-recession levels. In our view, underemployment remains a major factor in explaining the 2 per cent wage norm that continues to exist in the UK.

Keywords: unemployment; underemployment; wage inflation; hours; anchoring; heuristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 J22 J31 J42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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