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By Paul Cheshire With housing nothing seems to change. This is what I wrote in 1999: “Concerns [about rising house prices] focus on the short term symptoms but it is really a long term problem. The... Read more...
11 August 2018
Article by Thomas Sampson Since World War II the global economy has become increasingly integrated. Brexit runs counter to this trend and has ignited a debate about the future of the EU and the global econo... Read more...
01 November 2017
La inestabilidad de los contratos y el desempleo de los padres tienen efectos negativos en el rendimiento educativo de sus hijos. Es una de las principales conclusiones de un estudio elaborado por la investiga... Read more...
23 January 2017
In the study’Job Loss at Home: Children’s School Performance during the Great Recession in Spain’, researcher Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London Sch... Read more...
03 December 2016
According to estimates by the London School of Economics, Brexit will result in a 22 percent drop in direct investment into the British economy and a 3.4 percent drop in revenues. This article was published online by ... Read more...
27 September 2016
Article by Christian Hilber In the first of a two-part article discussing the British planning system, Christian Hilber, Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics, argues that the UK pl... Read more...
06 July 2016
State of Working Britain blog, article posted by Jonathan Wadsworth Immigration has for some years been the uppermost worry among the issues thought to be facing Britain in many opinion polls so it - or rather people's... Read more...
11 May 2016
Article by Jonathan Wadsworth Welcome back. The Bank of England has a regular labour market commentary in its quarterly bulletin in which it looks at issues that may influence productivity, wage pressure and hence infla... Read more...
18 April 2016
In the latest State of Working Britain blog, editor Professor Jonathan Wadsworth writes: Common Mis-Perceptions About Recent UK Labour Market Performance No 1. A Record number of people in work The opening sentenc... Read more...
01 March 2016
Latest State of Working Britain blog by Jonathan Wadsworth The central message is that it would be wrong to conclude from analysis of the net change in employment that migrants take all new jobs. Rather the net change i... Read more...
09 February 2016
In the first of a new blog from LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, Jonathan Wadsworth comments on the issue of full employment in the UK. This article was published online by the CEP's The State of Working Britain b... Read more...
26 January 2016
According to opinion polls, immigration has emerged as a key issue for voters - ahead of the National Health Service, the economy, unemployment and crime - in the run-up to a closely-fought general elections this May. ... Read more...
26 February 2015
Speech by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, to the German-British Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner 2014, London, 23 July 2014. 2. The benefits of European integration And it seems that Britain, t... Read more...
24 July 2014