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By Barbara Petrongolo, Felix Koenig, and John Van Reenen Policy makers have long been concerned with helping people on disability benefits find some employment as this group has grown dramatically in recent decades. In ... Read more...
24 August 2019
A report commissioned by dairy giant Arla and published last year by the London School of Economics makes for sobering reading. In a press release accompanying the release of the report, the MD of the company that commis... Read more...
16 August 2019
Given that changes could come into force as soon as March 2019, businesses such as Arla Foods UK have been compelled to start contingency planning, analysing what effect these changes might have on its busines... Read more...
23 July 2018
Non-tariff barriers alone after Brexit could raise the price of dairy products in the UK, which may become “luxuries”, warned a report on Thursday. A study by the London School of Economi... Read more...
19 July 2018
It is widely known that the Protestant Reformation, which was launched by popular reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin in the 16th century, brought about an abrupt end to the massive and unquestioned p... Read more...
08 May 2018
College leaders' effectiveness 'seems unrelated to their salary', according to the Centre for Vocational Education Research. Better principals make a positive difference to their student’s ed... Read more...
19 December 2017
Traf also said that in 2015, one of the most comprehensive studies on the impact of Sunday trade on the European economy was published, published by the London Center for Economic Performance (CEP), a research... Read more...
23 November 2017
Women’s role in the US economy has exploded since WWII. In fact, the employment rate for women of prime working age more than doubled in the second half of the 20th century. There are a lot of reaso... Read more...
04 October 2017
Article by Jonathan Wadsworth The issue of public sector pay went centre-stage recently in the debate over whether to lift the public sector pay cap. Presumably one of the key factors, alongside where the r... Read more...
25 July 2017
Professor Saul Estrin of the London School of Economics has shown, for example, that an increase in the level of employee participation in the running of an enterprise from zero to full participation increases output by ... Read more...
02 August 2016
Dennis Novy interviewed on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) in the light of households in Kenilworth protesting with the message to protect the NHS from TTIP. This article was published by BBC C... Read more...
12 August 2015
Article by Keyu Jin Keyu Jin calls for greater credit access and lower entry barriers for China's private-sector firms to flourish and create employment. This article was published by the South China Morning Post on Ju... Read more...
03 June 2015
WHEN Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 she set about bulldozing the trade unions, which had frequently brought Britain grinding to a standstill in the 1970s. On May 27th David Cameron indicated that his Conservativ... Read more...
30 May 2015
Research by the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance was published in The Review of Economic Studies and involved 61% of all NHS providers of acute care in England. The study shows that adding one extra hospital in a ne... Read more...
29 January 2015
As David Cameron lambasts Ed Miliband for allegedly wanting to ''weaponise'' the National Health Service in the election, new research gives the UK prime minister some ammunition of his own. LSE economists have measured ... Read more...
Another 1m public sector jobs are expected to be lost over the next five years as part of the latest squeeze on the public finances. ... Adjusted for inflation, wages have fallen by about a 10th since the financial crisi... Read more...
03 December 2014
The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, has delivered the financial package he hopes will convince voters to deliver a Conservative majority in May 2015. Here, a team of academic experts [that includes the Centr... Read more...
Over a whole career, men in the public sector will earn the same as their commercial peers - and women will do better. It is essential that any proposed reforms of the total remuneration package available to current and... Read more...
01 October 2012
New SERC/Grantham project launched: an investigation of the Carbon Footprint of the Retail Sector LSE's Spatial Economics Research Centre and Grantham Research Institute have begun a new collaborative project expl... Read more...
27 September 2012
CEP has produced rigorous research evidence on the impact of hospital competition, pay regulation and management performance on quality, productivity and equity in the NHS. Policy needs to be informed by evidence. Below ... Read more...
13 June 2011