CEP Press Releases

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2013

21 May 2013
Pay at the Top: New evidence on high earners in the UK from Brian Bell and John Van Reenen

15 May 2013
The UK labour market: CEP director John Van Reenen comments on the latest unemployment figures

23 April 2013
Making Sense of Falling UK Crime: Evidence from Economic Research from Mirko Draca

21 February 2013
Bankers Bonuses - New evidence on income inequality in the UK from Brian Bell & John Van Reenen

31 January 2013
A Manifesto for Growth
The LSE Growth Commission calls for a new focus on investment for future prosperity - in skills, infrastructure and innovations.

2012

19 December 2012
New research findings from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics are highlighted in the Winter 2012 issue of CentrePiece magazine:
The latest issue is available to download.

12 December 2012
Immigration and the UK Labour Market - Article by MAC Chair, David Metcalf, in forthcoming CentrePiece.

7 November 2012
A Rational Victory - Comment on the US Election Result by Professor John Van Reenen - Professor Van Reenen looks at why President Obama's victory and re-election was important for many reasons.

24 October 2012
US Election Analysis No.3
Healthcare Reform: The US Policy Debate - The latest publication in the CEP US Election Analyses concludes that the ability of the next US president to rein in spending on healthcare and improve the productivity of the healthcare system is largely going to determine the country’s fiscal future.

23 October 2012
US Election Analysis No.2
Economic Recovery and Policy Uncertainty - In the second of the CEP US Election Analyses series, Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen and colleagues assess the damaging impact of policy uncertainty on the US economic recovery.

16 October 2012
US Election Analysis No.1
Recession and Recovery: the US Policy Debate on Taxes, Spending and Public Debt - On the eve of the second US presidential debate, CEP is launching its first series of US Election Analyses. In our first report, Ethan Ilzetzki covers the key issue of taxes, spending and public debt, a major point of disagreement between the two candidates, President Obama and Governor Romney.

02 October 2012
Reforming Apprenticeships and Vocational Education - Research evidence from the Centre for Economic Performance sheds light on the longstanding weaknesses of vocational education and apprenticeships in Britain - and suggests how to remedy them.

20 September 2012
Education, Earnings and Economic Crisis - New research evidence from the Centre for Economic Performance in CentrePiece Volume 17, Issue 2, Autumn 2012

24 August 2012
School Students' Views on Going to University - CEE research finds that a 'light-touch' information campaign about the value and affordability of going to university can have a big positive effect on the attitudes of pre-GCSE school students towards staying in education.

28 June 2012
Economists' Manifesto Challenges Wisdom of Austerity - published today in all editions of the Financial Times and on the following website, where supporters can join: www.manifestoforeconomicsense.org

25 June 2012
Immigration and the UK Labour Market: the Latest Evidence from Economic Research - CEP Policy Analysis published today

15 June 2012
Shocking Discrimination Against Mental Illness Within the NHS - CEP Mental Illness Report Published

13 June 2012
Flawed design of Europe's flagship climate policy costs taxpayers billions of euros

21 May 2012
Jobs, Growth, Pay and Pollution - New research evidence from the Centre for Economic Performance in CentrePiece Volume 17, Issue 1, Spring 2012

04 May 2012
Executive Pay: share ownership by institutional investors improves the link to corporate performance

22 March 2012
Wanted: A real budget for growth

19 March 2012
Non-Native English Speakers in the Classroom

05 March 2012
Britain Needs a Cabinet Minister for Mental Health

20 February 2012
Competition between NHS Hospitals Improves Efficiency; Impact of private sector competition is ambiguous

01 February 2012
Industrial Policy to Boost Jobs - New research suggests government grants should target smaller firms

20 January 2012
Launch of LSE Growth Commission

2011

14 December 2011
Apprenticeship Policy - The need to increase skills and boost young people's job prospect

14 November 2011
Growth, Jobs and Productivity - assessment of the UK's economic performance since 1997

4 November 2011
Top Pay in the UK - Evidence that CEO remuneration is linked to firm performance

19 October 2011
Lobbyist Connections to Cabinet Ministers Could be Worth up to £112k per year

19 August 2011
Police Patrols Highly Effective for Cutting Crime

27 July 2011
Hospital Competition in the NHS Saves Lives

11 May 2011
The Labour Market in Winter - assessing the UK's performance on jobs and inequality...

16 March 2011
Youth Unemployment: Today's Figures in Context and what can be done

15 March 2011
Explaining the Rise in Wage Inequality in the UK

17 February 2011
From Plan B to Plan V - What the UK Economy needs to reboot and rebalance growth

31 January 2011
NHS Reform - will the governement's plans make a difference to Britain's healthcare performance?

2010

2 December 2010
Improving British Management is Vital for Economic Recovery

26 October 2010
Management in Healthcare - Good management really makes a difference

11 October 2010
Professor Christopher Pissarides Wins Economics Nobel

7 September 2010
Apprenticeships - Employers in England Lag Behind

13 July 2010
Top Health Economists Comment on the NHS White Paper

30 June 2010
Competition Makes NHS Hospitals More Efficient

24 May 2010
Europe's Emissions Trading System - How European taxpayers are losing out to the industry lobby

2009

27 August 2009
CEP Director wins Europe's Top Prize for Economic Research

12 February 2009
Two Cheers for Anglo-Saxon Financial Markets? Institutional investors are good for industrial innovation

2008

30 October 2008
IZA Prize 2008 goes to British Economists Richard Layard and Stephen J. Nickell

29 October 2008
Low Income Families are now more able to work their way out of poverty

1 September 2008
Research on Mobile Termination Charges - Vodafone has warned that 40 million mobile phone users in Europe might switch off handsets because of proposed EU reforms...

6 August 2008
Idle Youth? It's bad, but maybe not as bad as you think

4 February 2008
Hospitals that Rely on Agency Nurses have Worse Health Outcomes for Patients

11 January 2008
New Research on Independent Schools - Their effects on teacher supply and the returns to private education

2007

17 September 2007
The Microsoft Decision - comment from the Centre for Economic Performance

10 September 2007
Union Blues - The bleak outlook for most of Britain's Trade Unions

12 July 2007
Managment Practices - New survey compares firms in the UK, Europe, United States and Asia

2 May 2007
Specialists are Needed to Teach Values says Richard Layard

27 April 2007
Americans Do IT Better - explaining the US productivity miracle, and why Europe hasn't kept up

21 March 2007
The European Union at 50 - prospects for jobs, innovation and productivity growth