Opportunities to move to jobs that require a similar skill set vary greatly between workers in different types of affected occupations and between local labour markets.
Workers' responses to local labor market shocks
Job transitions after the COVID-19 shock
Long-term effects of occupational mobility on labor market trajectories
Novel measure of occupational switching opportunities due to labor demand changes
Using both forecast-based counterfactual and actual data, we can compute measures for exposure to the Corona-induced changes in the vacancy ratio:
This measure captures the shift in the availability of vacancies outside an individual's occupation relative to vacancies within their occupation during the Covid-19 pandemic. It depends on an individual's pre-crisis occupation