Centre for Economic Performance Press Release:
New research findings from CEP
8 May 2014
New research reports from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics are highlighted in the Spring 2014 issue of CentrePiece magazine.
- Social housing: Natives and immigrants both suffer from failure to increase stock
- Big data: Lessons from the economic impact of the transatlantic telegraph cable
- Minimum wages: Growing popularity with voters as a way of tackling inequality
- New technology: Gains for nurses, teaching assistants and medical technicians
- American management: More intensive use of ICT linked to better practices
- Gender gaps: Lab experiments find differences in attitudes to risk and competition
- Planning: Don't blame the foreigners: it's we Brits who turned houses into gold
- Pay: The prospects of significant wage increases for typical UK workers are bleak
- Education: Better school management is associated with better pupil achievement
The CEP press release was published online on May 8, 2014
Link to press release here.