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Real-time updates on the UK economy: trends, expectations and implications from business survey data

Josh De Lyon and Swati Dhingra examine how labour shortages are affecting UK firms, with half reporting difficulty recruiting new workers while around one in five firms report issues retaining existing staff. Read more...

Covid-19 and the self-employed - 18 months into the crisis

CEP Researchers find that more than a quarter of self-employed workers are struggling to pay for essentials, with parents and younger workers most likely to face financial difficulties. Read more...

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Business time

Economy 2030 looks at how prepared UK's private sector is for the challenges of the upcoming decade. It finds firms need increasing - and targeted - investment that will require either increasing imports or limiting consumption. Read more...

Latest

The Economist

The Power of Creative Destruction makes the The Economist’s best books list

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 &ldq... Read more...

17 December 2021

ITV News

Half of all businesses struggling to recruit new staff, survey finds

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

Financial Times

A real ‘skills revolution’ needs Tory MPs to stop talking and act

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

The Times

It’s time we stopped treating the self-employed as an afterthought

A report published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics shows, the self-employed have not fared well over the past couple of years. Even by the end of this summer they were ... Read more...

22 November 2021

CEP announcement

Job market best paper awards for Amanda Dahlstrand and Nikhil Datta

Congratulations to Amanda Dahlstrand and Nikhil Datta who have won UniCredit Foundation Econ Job Market Best Paper Awards. Dahlstrand, a PhD candidate in economics at LSE, has won an Econ Job Market Bes... Read more...

22 November 2021

The Economist

Britain’s economy does not lack oomph, but productivity is lagging

Joint research from the Centre for Economic Performance and the Resolution Foundation suggests that financial officers expect the amount of workers moving from shrinking to growing companies will spe... Read more...

20 November 2021

Economy 2030

Economy 2030 Inquiry: Six Months On

It is six months since the launch of The Economy 2030 inquiry – a two-year project that will examine the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and set out a plan... Read more...

19 November 2021

The New Statesman

What we're getting wrong about the "Great Resignation"

Alan Manning offers insights on trends in workers switching or leaving jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...

17 November 2021

Financial Times

UK’s levelling-up agenda won’t solve productivity problem, report suggests

Findings from the Resolution Foundation and the Centre for Economic Performance challenge the government’s view that levelling up poorly performing companies or poorer regions will raise productivit... Read more...

15 November 2021

Financial Times

UK’s levelling-up agenda won’t solve productivity problem, report suggests

15 November 2021

CEP announcement

Josh De Lyon wins TIISA Young Scholar Award

Congratulations to Josh De Lyon who has won a Trade and Investment in Services Associates (TIISA) Young Scholar Award for his paper The Labour Market Effects of Services Importing: Evidence from the United Kin... Read more...

20 October 2021

BBC Radio 4

Today

Lee Elliot Major talks about the implementation of the National Tutoring Programme and the need to support disadvantaged children in post-pandemic recovery plans. ... Read more...

06 October 2021

The Economist

England’s pioneering mental-health programme hits a ceiling

Remembering Richard Layard's research on the need for evidence-based therapies, the Economist looks at developments in mental health provisions over the 15 years. ... Read more...

02 October 2021

BBC

In need of modernisation? The UK’s housing crisis close up

Paul Cheshire speaks on some of the wider problems of the UK housing market. ... Read more...

01 October 2021

CEP announcement

In memory of Professor David Marsden

David Marsden joined LSE as a lecturer in the Department of Industrial Relations in 1980. He had a long and distinguished career, first in the Department of Industrial Relations, where he was promoted to profe... Read more...

30 September 2021

Wharton Research Data Services

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) best paper awarded to John Van Reenen

A Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) best paper award has been given to John Van Reenen, director of the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), and his co-authors Sabrina T. Howell, of New York Unive... Read more...

27 September 2021

The Economist

How German bombs shape London’s gangs

Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin and Carmen Villa-Llera examine the relationship between areas of London that were bombed in the Second World War and crime rates. Discovering that the probability of finding a ga... Read more...

28 August 2021

The Observer

A million jobs in peril as one in 16 UK firms say they are at risk of closure

A million workers are still employed by businesses at risk of closure over the next three months, as the government is poised to withdraw critical Covid support schemes, according to new analysis by Peter Lamb... Read more...

15 August 2021

British Academy

Vernon Henderson and Barbara Petrongolo become Fellows of the British Academy

Congratulations to Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) associates Professor Vernon Henderson and Professor Barbara Petrongolo, who have been elected as new Fellows of the British Academy. They are among 8... Read more...

23 July 2021

The Economist

Domestic violence surges after a football match ends

A study by Ria Ivandic, Tom Kirchmaier and Neus Torres-Blas finds that a “considerable amount of domestic abuse” could be mitigated by arranging football fixtures on weekdays or... Read more...

09 July 2021

The Telegraph

Pupils missed more than half of classroom time during Covid pandemic

Amid calls to allow the option to repeat the entire school year, a major study by Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin finds Pupils have missed out on more than half ... Read more...

07 July 2021

LBC

Schoolchildren missed out on a third of learning during coronavirus pandemic

A study by Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin finds evidence that pupils across the UK have lost out on a third of their learning time amid Covid-19, even when home lessons a... Read more...

07 July 2021

The Independent

Day drinking and early kick-offs linked to rise in domestic abuse after football matches

Researchers find alcohol consumption - rather than heightened emotions - is to blame for rises in male-on-female violence following matches, and this could be reduced by more evening and weekend games. ... Read more...

05 July 2021

The Guardian

Early kick-offs linked to more alcohol abuse and violence in the home

Researchers at the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance find alcohol consumption following football matches is fuelling domestic abuse in the hours after a game and suggest that... Read more...

04 July 2021

Bloomberg

Indians Prefer Job Guarantee Over Cash Handouts, LSE Study Says

A majority of urban Indians left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic want the government to guarantee them jobs like it does for people in rural areas, says a study by Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kon... Read more...

02 July 2021

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CEP discussion papers

Men are from Mars, and women too: a Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments

Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women's under representation in high-income occupations and glass-ceiling effects. We draw lessons from the economic literature via a survey of experts and a Bayesian h... Read more...

Oriana Bandiera, Nidhi Parekh, Barbara Petrongolo and Michelle Rao

17 December 2021

Highlights

Real-time updates on the UK economy: trends, expectations and implications from business survey data

Covid-19 and the self-employed - 18 months into the crisis

Business time

Latest

The Economist

The Power of Creative Destruction makes the The Economist’s best books list

ITV News

Half of all businesses struggling to recruit new staff, survey finds

Financial Times

A real ‘skills revolution’ needs Tory MPs to stop talking and act

The Times

It’s time we stopped treating the self-employed as an afterthought

CEP announcement

Job market best paper awards for Amanda Dahlstrand and Nikhil Datta

The Economist

Britain’s economy does not lack oomph, but productivity is lagging

Economy 2030

Economy 2030 Inquiry: Six Months On

The New Statesman

What we're getting wrong about the "Great Resignation"

Financial Times

UK’s levelling-up agenda won’t solve productivity problem, report suggests

Financial Times

UK’s levelling-up agenda won’t solve productivity problem, report suggests

CEP announcement

Josh De Lyon wins TIISA Young Scholar Award

BBC Radio 4

Today

The Economist

England’s pioneering mental-health programme hits a ceiling

BBC

In need of modernisation? The UK’s housing crisis close up

CEP announcement

In memory of Professor David Marsden

Wharton Research Data Services

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) best paper awarded to John Van Reenen

The Economist

How German bombs shape London’s gangs

The Observer

A million jobs in peril as one in 16 UK firms say they are at risk of closure

British Academy

Vernon Henderson and Barbara Petrongolo become Fellows of the British Academy

The Economist

Domestic violence surges after a football match ends

The Telegraph

Pupils missed more than half of classroom time during Covid pandemic

LBC

Schoolchildren missed out on a third of learning during coronavirus pandemic

The Independent

Day drinking and early kick-offs linked to rise in domestic abuse after football matches

The Guardian

Early kick-offs linked to more alcohol abuse and violence in the home

Bloomberg

Indians Prefer Job Guarantee Over Cash Handouts, LSE Study Says

CEP discussion papers

Men are from Mars, and women too: a Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments

Blog

Autocratic AI dystopias: From science fiction to social science fact

CEP discussion papers

The environmental cost of the international job market for economists

Blog

Labour shortages have become widespread - this is how firms are responding

CEP Covid-19 analyses

Real-time updates on the UK economy: trends, expectations and implications from business survey data

Blog

By allowing work to be done externally, broadband technology has increased outsourcing

Blog

Where are business angels from?

Blog

Which speakers will benefit from the rise in remote seminar presentations?

Blog

When oligopolies confuse consumers, beware the rise of confusopoly

Blog

Why natural experiments won the Nobel

Blog

Monitoring and evaluating during the Covid-19 recovery

Blog

How are climate change policies affecting firms' competitiveness?

CEP discussion papers