UK Job Vacancies Driven by Low-Paid Roles, IFS Says

UK Job Vacancies Driven by Low-Paid Roles, IFS Says
A person wearing a protective mask walks past a Job Centre Plus office, amidst the outbreak COVID-19 in London on Aug. 11, 2020. Toby Melville/Reuters
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Recent data showing high job vacancies in the UK is being entirely driven by low-paid occupations, according to research.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think tank said around a quarter of the workforce is seeing job vacancies in occupations relevant to them at least 10 percent below pre-pandemic levels.