Young workers are earning less because they don't switch jobs enough, experts are warning.

 

专家称，近来年轻职工的收入越来越低，原因就是他们换工作不够频繁。

 

Despite record growth in employment, the number of times employees move roles has fallen over the past decade, the Resolution Foundation think tank says.

 

Hourly pay for 22 to 29-year-olds only recovered last year to its 2000 level, according to its report.

 

Young workers' pay would be 3% higher if job mobility¹ had not slowed, it adds.

 

The Foundation's senior policy analyst² Laura Gardiner said: "Frequent job moves are the main route to the rapid pay increases young people should experience as they begin their working lives, so it is a real concern that job switching slowed down for all groups, and particularly for young people, even before the recession hit.

 

"Unpicking the reasons why young people are staying put in their jobs for longer is crucial to understanding whether job switching can return to its previous level, or whether we are seeing a 'new normal' of fewer job moves and subsequent slower pay growth for generations to come.”

 

Less frequent job moves among young people deepened their pay squeeze by a third during the downturn, the report says.

 

It could permanently³ slash⁴ their earnings⁵ potential in the labour market, experts fear.

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