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In their robotics focussed study carried out in 2015, Graetz and Michaels concluded that robot densification increased the annual growth of GDP and labour productivity by about 0.37% and 0.36% respectively across 17 coun... Read more...
23 September 2019
2 years on from the UK’s referendum vote to leave the EU, substantial questions about the path to Brexit remain. In this special edition of Vox Talks, Tim Phillips talks to Swati Dhingra, Karl Whelan, an... Read more...
29 June 2018
New job openings attract not only local workers, but also those living relatively near, write Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo. Place-based policies that target disadvantaged areas are widespread in b... Read more...
01 December 2017
Article by Thomas Sampson: Why will Brexit cause problems at the border? Let’s start with the basics. The central issue is that currently, goods move freely between the UK and other EU countries. That&rs... Read more...
13 November 2017
When politicians speak of a need to 'control' EU immigration, we should be asking why. The evidence shows that free movement of people is working for all of us. But the available evidence suggests the overall impact of ... Read more...
24 July 2016
Article by Cletus C. Coughlin and Dennis Novy Borders impede trade, and a major objective of research in international trade has been to identify by how much. This column argues that bilateral trade data can give a misl... Read more...
08 May 2016
There are now more than 1.1 million children in our schools whose first language ''is known or believed to be other than English'' according to the latest government figures. ... Chinese students are our highest performi... Read more...
01 July 2014