About Us

The CEP is an interdisciplinary research centre at the LSE Research Laboratory. It was established by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in 1990 and is now one of the leading economic research groups in Europe.

The CEP studies the determinants of economic performance at the level of the company, the nation and the global economy by focusing on the major links between globalisation, technology and institutions (above all the educational system and the labour market) and their impact on productivity, inequality, employment, stability and wellbeing.

There are currently seven programmes:

• Community (Prof. Alan Manning)
  
• Education and Skills (Dr. Sandra McNally)
  
• Globalisation (Dr. Emanuel Ornelas)
  
• Labour Markets (Prof. Steve Machin)
  
• Macro Programme (Prof. Francesco Caselli)
  
• Productivity and Innovation (Prof. John Van Reenen)
  
• Wellbeing (Prof. Lord Richard Layard)

Each programme runs a series of related projects addressing key issues, set out under the Programme of Work 2010-2015. [Summary Programme pdf] [Full Programme pdf]

Full details of work completed and projects undertaken are available in our Annual Report [Full document in pdf]. The latest annual report was published in April 2013 for work completed and conducted from January 2012 - December 2012.

Associated with the above thematic programmes are self-standing programmes of work funded by outside sponsors:

• Mental Health Policy Group (Prof. Lord Richard Layard)
  
  

Completed self-standing programmes:

• Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE), funded by the Department for Education and Skills. (Prof. Stephen Machin)
• HP Innovation Research Programme (formerly EDS Innovation Research Programme)
• EU LEED: Linked Employer-Employee Data
  Four in-depth studies assessing the potential of linked employer-employee and panel data sets for analysis of European labour market policy
• Explaining Productivity and Growth in Europe, America and Asia (Dr. Tobias Kretschmer)
• Manpower Human Resources Lab (This website has now been archived. Click links to download papers or past event information)
• Pay Inequalities and Economic Performance (PIEP), with support from the European Commission and Eurostat.
• Future of Unions Programme, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
• Skills for All Programme, focusing on post-16 education and training and the new modern Apprenticeship, funded by the Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation.