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A long-term view into how low paid work has changed over the past two decades during the existence of the minimum wage in the UK. Read more...
Veronica Rappoport discusses the role of banks in financial development as part of a series on the effect of trade and investment on developing countries. Read more...
Researchers forecast that relative income mobility levels in the UK could fall by as much as 12%, driven by learning loss in schools. Read more...
Nick Bloom in conversation on a surprising find from the pandemic: remote work is fuelling economic growth. ... Read more...
02 June 2022
The Economy 2030 Inquiry is examining the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and will set out a plan for successfully navigating it. For the past year, researchers from the R... Read more...
30 May 2022
Restarting the Future, a new book by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, presents the idea that intangible assets, though hard to see and measure, are critically important to foster. ... Read more...
19 May 2022
Swati Dhingra has been appointed to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) by chancellor Rishi Sunak. The MPC is responsible for deciding what monetary policy action the Bank of England will take to... Read more...
12 May 2022
Mental illness accounts for over 40 per cent of all sickness absence - reducing productivity at work. Richard Layard explains how this highlights the need for wellbeing provision in management practice. ... Read more...
11 May 2022
Researchers from the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance find that a “clear and robust impact of Brexit-induced trade frictions” had led to an increase in prices. ... Read more...
27 April 2022
Findings from the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance chime with warnings from business groups: that smaller firms have struggled to absorb customs controls, VAT and regulatory red tape, with many quitting exporting al... Read more...
26 April 2022
Researchers find Brexit’s impacts on trade were only felt once the Trade and Cooperation Agreement kicked in, rather than steadily since the referendum. ... Read more...
LSE finds one-third decline in trading relationships under Boris Johnson’s deal – which has hit small firms hardest. ... Read more...
To understand what is happening to inequality between people we need to understand the behaviour of, and inequality between, firms. Papers published last month as part of the IFS Deaton Review of inequality in work, led ... Read more...
25 April 2022
Xavier Jaravel explains some of the basic concepts around inflation. ... Read more...
12 April 2022
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue that capitalism can be revitalised by promoting ‘further investment’ in what they call ‘intangible capital’. ... Read more...
11 April 2022
Jonathan Haskel and Stain Westlake explain why the UK government's focus on funding overlooks many levers for innovation policy. ... Read more...
30 March 2022
All humans want a little of the good life, but Paul Dolan asks whether the sole pursuit of happiness is actually making us a society of sad, selfish and solitary creatures? ... Read more...
24 March 2022
Experts say social support, honesty and generosity key to wellbeing, as Afghanistan and Lebanon struggle in global ranking. ... Read more...
19 March 2022
Interview with Swati Dhingra - is this the end of globalisation? In a series of special programmes, Newsnight looks at the impact of the war in Ukraine on the world. ... Read more...
18 March 2022
The written part of university applications could be changed to provide more support to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, the universities minister has said. The proposal comes after Lee Elliot Major criticise... Read more...
16 February 2022
Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, associate of CEP and the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), on being awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea. The award is given to a European scholar who has ... Read more...
15 February 2022
With only a quarter of pupils having access to counsellors, Richard Layard suggests that a well-being unit be set up within the Department for Education, to provide guidance to schools and help with interventions. ... Read more...
10 February 2022
John Van Reenen shows that well-managed firms make better forecasts - and the traits of those well-managed companies might come as a surprise. ... Read more...
02 February 2022
Moving to a new employer offers a greater salary increase than staying put - and workers who resign to take up work in booming sectors stand to gain even more, according to research from the Resolution Foundation think t... Read more...
06 January 2022
The pace of change in the UK jobs market has slowed to its lowest level in decades and, even the disruption of the pandemic, has been a far cry from the upheaval of the 1980s, according to research by the Resolution Foun... Read more...
The Power of Creative Destruction has been chosen by The Economist as one of its best books of 2021.The book, by Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin and Simon Bunel, is described by the magazine as "sweeping, aut... Read more...
17 December 2021
About half of all firms are struggling to recruit new workers and business confidence is dipping, according to new research from the CEP. Researchers also found that one in five are having issues retaining exi... Read more...
15 December 2021
Richard Layard and Ken Clarke write about the need to improve opportunities for young people who don’t go to university. ... Read more...
04 December 2021
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Boris Johnson has pledged that more people will be helped onto the property ladder and that the supply of housing will be improved. Christian Hilber and Olivier Schoni consider the history of housing policy and the chall... Read more...
Christian A. L. Hilber and Olivier Schöni
09 June 2022
This paper shows that multinational enterprises (MNEs) spur the adoption of industrial robots. First, I document a positive and robust correlation between multinational production and robot adoption using a new cross-cou... Read more...
Fabrizio Leone
08 June 2022
Machine Learning (ML) methods are increasingly being used across a variety of fields and have led to the discovery of intricate relationships between variables. We here apply ML methods to predict and interpret life sati... Read more...
Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Niccolo Gentile and Alexandre Tkatchenko
07 June 2022
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Lee Elliot Major and Andrew Eyles explain how a gap in missed education between richer and poorer children was exacerbated by stark home learning divides and the likely consequences for social mobility.... Read more...
Lee Elliot Major and Andrew Eyles
01 June 2022
Andrew Eyles, Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin forecast that relative income mobility levels in the UK could fall by as much as 12%, driven by learning loss in schools.... Read more...
Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin
We document the role of intangible capital in manufacturing firms' substantial contribution to non-manufacturing employment growth from 1977-2019. Exploiting data on firms' "auxiliary" establishments, we develop a novel ... Read more...
Xiang Ding, Teresa C. Fort, Stephen J. Redding and Peter K. Schott
In spring 2020, many countries imposed radical, urgent actions including lockdowns to protect their citizens' health - but there was also a need to protect people from the worst of the ensuing economic storm. Academics a... Read more...
Helen Ward
27 May 2022
Firms are increasingly allowing their employees to decide if they work at home or in the office. But the return to work is fraught with many biases. Julia Bladinieres-Justo, Aleesha Bruce, Anisah Ramli, Nichaphat Surawat... Read more...
Teresa Almeida, Julia Bladinieres-Justo, Aleesha Bruce, Grace Lordan, Anisah Ramli, Nichaphat Surawattananon, Chanya Trakulmaykee and Jasmine Virhia
26 May 2022
This edition of Low Pay Britain is the Resolution Foundation's twelfth annual report taking stock of the state of low pay. Recent editions have focused on the short-term impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on low paid workers... Read more...
Nye Cominetti, Rui Costa, Nikhil Datta and Felicia Odamtten
25 May 2022
Policymakers frequently use education as a welfare policy instrument. But can these policies have unintended consequences? Christos Genakos and Eleni Kyrkopoulou present findings from a case study in Greece where a socia... Read more...
Christos Genakos and Eleni Kyrkopoulou
This report, the 19th report for The Economy 2030 Inquiry, provides a hard-headed assessment of the opportunities presented to UK plc by the move to net zero, and considers how best these can be unlocked. It does this by... Read more...
Brendan Curran, Ralf Martin, Sabrina Muller, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Esin Serin, Arjun Shah, Anna Valero and Dennis Verhoeven
23 May 2022
John Van Reenen, Nicholas Bloom, and Raffaella Sadun explain how the World Management Survey provides the evidence needed for designing industrial strategies to tackle low productivity.... Read more...
Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
20 May 2022
As the world of work changes, so should leadership. Grace Lordan describes five ways for leaders to become more effective.... Read more...
Grace Lordan
Researchers examine how increased competition from China impacts the welfare of the US labour market.... Read more...
Andres Rodriguez-Clare, Mauricio Ulate and Jose P Vasquez
17 May 2022
As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues and many call for a strengthening of sanctions, an alternative to a full energy embargo has been discussed in the form of European Union tariffs on imports of Russian gas. The In... Read more...
Romesh Vaitilingam
Anna Valero notes that universities play a special role in driving social and economic progress and shows how they can do even more to benefit their local communities.... Read more...
Anna Valero
Nearly all schools closed at some point during the pandemic. Reviewing the evidence so far, Jo Blanden, Matthias Doepke and Jan Stuhler warn that these closures will have a major negative impact on educational inequality... Read more...
Jo Blanden, Matthias Doepke and Jan Stuhler
16 May 2022
Combatting the climate crisis is not just an issue of finding money for the right kinds of investment but also ensuring that it is spent effectively, says economist Tim Besley.... Read more...
Timothy Besley
Lack of affordable housing is a growing and often primary policy concern in cities around the world. The main underlying cause for the 'affordability crisis', which has been mounting for decades, is a combination of stro... Read more...
Christian A. L. Hilber and Olivier Schoni
Using German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) microdata this paper contributes new empirical evidence by examining the implications of motherhood and fatherhood for wages of a sample of women and men between 2005-2015. Makin... Read more...
Maria Petrillo
05 May 2022
Managers worked longer hours during the pandemic and changed how they used their time, find Thomaz Teodorovicz, Raffaella Sadun, Andrew L. Kun, and Orit Shaer. They suggest how better technology, including AI, could help... Read more...
Andrew L. Kun, Raffaella Sadun, Orit Shaer and Thomaz Teodorovicz
29 April 2022
Policy makers frequently use education as a welfare policy instrument. We examine one such case, where students from large and financially constrained families, were given the opportunity to be transferred to university ... Read more...
28 April 2022
Innovation is an important driver of potential growth but quantitative evidence on the dynamics of innovative activities in the long-run are hardly documented due to the lack of data, especially in Europe. In this paper,... Read more...
Antonin Bergeaud and Cyril Verluise
This paper provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic... Read more...
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Nina Roussille (Berkeley and LSE)
Tuesday 14 June 2022 12:55 - 14:00
Ananya Kotia (LSE)
Wednesday 15 June 2022 11:00 - 12:00
Jaedo Choi (University of Michigan and Federal Reserve Board)
Wednesday 15 June 2022 12:30 - 14:00
Alex Albright (Harvard)
Wednesday 15 June 2022 15:00 - 16:00
Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick), joint with Victoria Baranov (University of Melbourne), Pietro Biroli (University of Bologna)
Tuesday 21 June 2022 16:00 - 17:00
David Clark (Oxford and CEP), Richard Layard (CEP), Sorawoot Srisuma (University of Surrey), Christian Krekel (LSE and CEP), Ekaterina Oparina (CEP)
Thursday 23 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00
Maria Cotofan (CEP), joint with Christian Krekel (LSE and CEP), Ekaterina Oparina (CEP)
Thursday 30 June 2022 13:00 - 14:00
Nicholas Stern (India Observatory and LSE), Martin Wolf (Financial Times), Henry Overman (SERC and LSE), Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation), Carolyn Fairbairn, Frances O'Grady (Trades Union Congress), Anna Valero (CEP)
Wednesday 13 July 2022 09:30 - 16:00
Frank Schilbach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Thursday 03 November 2022 13:45 - 15:00
Lauren Falcao (Yale University)
Thursday 10 November 2022 13:45 - 15:00
Paula Bustos (CEMFI)
Thursday 17 November 2022 13:45 - 15:00
Daniel Xu (Duke University)
Thursday 24 November 2022 13:45 - 15:00
Bradley Setzler (Pennsylvania State University)
Thursday 01 December 2022 13:45 - 15:00
Imran Rasul (University College London)
Thursday 08 December 2022 13:45 - 15:00
A two day conference discussing recent work on the economics of crime and the criminal justice system.... Read more...
various speakers
Friday 19 May 2023 - Saturday 20 May 2023
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