Email
t.evans2@lse.ac.uk

Office Address
Department of Economics
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Placement Officer
Matthias Doepke

Supervisors
Guy Michaels
Camille Landais

References
Guy Michaels
Department of Economics
London School of Economics and Political Sciences
Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE
g.michaels@lse.ac.uk

Camille Landais
Department of Economics
London School of Economics and Political Sciences
Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE
c.landais@lse.ac.uk

Camille Terrier
Department of Economics
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS
c.terrier@qmul.ac.uk

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Local Labour Markets and Skill Acquisition 

Educational attainment varies widely and persistently across England. I combine establishment-level administrative data on local labour market demand, with individual-level education choice data to document the spatial variation of skill demand, identify the role that existing differences in skill demand play in educational attainment, and derive an elasticity of the supply of skills to local skill demand. The responsiveness of education to skill demand has implications for labour market adjustments to economic shocks, the persistence of local economic outcomes, and the effectiveness of local economic policies I Link to paper.

Publications

Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline, with Per-Anders Edin, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnäs, and Guy Michaels. Economic Journal, August 2023, 133(654): 2178–2209. 
We assess the career earnings losses that individual Swedish workers suffered when their occupations’ employment declined. High-quality data allow us to overcome sorting into declining occupations on various attributes, including cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Our estimates show that occupational decline reduced mean cumulative earnings from 1986–2013 by no more than 2%–5%. This loss reflects a combination of reduced earnings conditional on employment, reduced years of employment and increased time spent in unemployment and retraining. While on average workers successfully mitigated their losses, those initially at the bottom of their occupations’ earnings distributions lost up to 8%–11%.