CEP News: Guardian: How London is bouncing back from the recession

Guardian:
How London is bouncing back from the recession

22 March 2011

A couple of months ago, Henry Overman, professor of economic geography at the LSE, gave a lecture titled How Did London Get Away With It? His answer came down to the kind of jobs that Londoners tend to have. The capital has the lion's share of financial services, and those industries came out of the meltdown in far healthier shape than expected. It also has lots of managerial and professional workers, and they've also done better than expected.

This article appeared in the Guardian on March 22, 2011
Link to article

Related Publications
How Did London Get Away With It?, Henry Overman. Article in CentrePiece Volume 15, Issue 3, Winter 2010/2011
'Wage Disparities in Britain: People or Place?', Stephen Gibbons, Henry Overman and Panu Pelkonen, SERC Discussion Paper No.60, October 2010
Slides for SERC and LSE London lecture How Did London Get Away With It? The Recession and the North-South Divide' given on 20 January 2011

Related Links
Henry Overman webpage
Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC) webpage
Globalisation Programme webpage

Guardian:How London is bouncing back from the recession

Guardian:
How London is bouncing back from the recession