Have low-skill jobs really grown more than high-skill jobs in Britain?

By Andrea Salvatori, Seetha Menon and Wouter Zwysen. A recent report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) claimed that the UK is one of the very few EU countries which saw larger growth in low-skill jobs than in high-skill ones between 1996 and 2008. All this at a time when the share of graduates in the economy increased dramatically. More...