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David Metcalf (1942-2026)

With great sadness we have learnt that our good friend and colleague David Metcalf has passed away. Together with Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell, David set up the Centre for Labour Economics, which became the Centre ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

In Memoriam: Ghazala Azmat (1979 - 2025)

We are deeply saddened to hear that CEP associate Ghazala Azmat, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, passed away on Saturday, 7 June. Ghazala was a leading applied microeconomist, known for her work on labour markets,... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Almudena Sevilla made CBE in New Year?s honours

Congratulations to Almudena Sevilla, professor of economics and public policy in LSE’s Department of Social Policy, and associate of the Centre for Economic Performance who has been recognised in the New Year's Hon... Read more...

New Statesman

Labour's "good jobs" agenda could be transformative

Daniel Chandler discusses how the Labour party can develop a "good jobs" policy where work would provide dignity and respect for everyone, and be a key source of people’s meaning and wellbeing.  ... Read more...

Financial Times

Make wellbeing central to public policy

Richard Layard explains the benefits of making wellbeing a core public policy. ... Read more...

CNBC Events

Hybrid work is here to stay

As the unofficial "Father of Hybrid Work", Stanford's Nick Bloom has spent years studying how we work and how we will work. He'll present new research and share his thoughts on what companies should be preparing for, a... Read more...

The Guardian

Brexit 'dragging down growth and costing hundreds a year in pay'

Britain's cost of living crisis is being made worse by Brexit dragging down the country's growth potential and costing workers hundreds of pounds a year in lost pay, say researchers. The Resolution Foundation thinktank a... Read more...

The Times

Brexit hitting production and wages, warns Resolution Foundation

Britain’s departure from the EU has damaged its competitiveness and will cut productivity and wages over the next ten years. Instead of the expected effect of narrowly reducing exports to the EU, Brexit has “... Read more...

The Economist

How to unleash more investment in intangible assets

Restarting the Future, a new book by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, presents the idea that intangible assets, though hard to see and measure, are critically important to foster. ... Read more...

CEP Announcement

Swati Dhingra to join Bank of England's monetary policy committee

Swati Dhingra has been appointed to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) by chancellor Rishi Sunak. The MPC is responsible for deciding what monetary policy action the Bank of England will take to... Read more...

Financial Times

Growth is still the answer to the world's economic problems

Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue that capitalism can be revitalised by promoting ‘further investment’ in what they call ‘intangible capital’. ... Read more...

Financial Times

Stable job market is `mixed blessing? for UK workers

The pace of change in the UK jobs market has slowed to its lowest level in decades and, even the disruption of the pandemic, has been a far cry from the upheaval of the 1980s, according to research by the Resolution Foun... Read more...

The Times

Want a pay increase? Then move to a new job, says Resolution Foundation

Moving to a new employer offers a greater salary increase than staying put - and workers who resign to take up work in booming sectors stand to gain even more, according to research from the Resolution Foundation think t... Read more...

ITV News

Half of all businesses struggling to recruit new staff, survey finds

About half of all firms are struggling to recruit new workers and business confidence is dipping, according to new research from the CEP. Researchers also found that one in five are having issues retaining exi... Read more...

The Times

It?s time we stopped treating the self-employed as an afterthought

A report published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics shows, the self-employed have not fared well over the past couple of years. Even by the end of this summer they were ... Read more...

The Economist

Britain?s economy does not lack oomph, but productivity is lagging

Joint research from the Centre for Economic Performance and the Resolution Foundation suggests that financial officers expect the amount of workers moving from shrinking to growing companies will spe... Read more...

CEP announcement

Josh De Lyon wins TIISA Young Scholar Award

Congratulations to Josh De Lyon who has won a Trade and Investment in Services Associates (TIISA) Young Scholar Award for his paper The Labour Market Effects of Services Importing: Evidence from the United Kin... Read more...

Bloomberg

Indians Prefer Job Guarantee Over Cash Handouts, LSE Study Says

A majority of urban Indians left unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic want the government to guarantee them jobs like it does for people in rural areas, says a study by Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kon... Read more...

Forbes

Happiness Is Not `Out There.' It's Something You Create

Following the publication of the World Happiness report 2021, Rodger Dean Duncan interviews Richard Layard on happiness and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic.  ... Read more...

Financial Times

The 2020s are set to be a decisive economic decade for the UK

The Resolution Foundation and Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics launch an important inquiry, analysing how the country must grapple with recovery from Covid-19, the af... Read more...

The Independent

UK faces `decisive decade? of change and risks falling further behind other nations, report warns

The country is not neither prepared for, nor used to, change on the scale required to deal with climate change, Brexit, an ageing population, Covid and technological shifts, says report by the Economy 2030 Inq... Read more...

The Guardian

UK economy could resemble that of Italy by end of 2020s ? report

A joint project by the Resolution Foundation thinktank and the London School of Economics said the UK was neither used to nor prepared for the challenges posed by the aftermath of Covid-19, Brexit, the ne... Read more...

Centre for Economic Performance

UK facing a `decisive decade? of change

The UK is facing a ‘decisive decade’ of change as five seismic economic shifts – the Covid aftermath, Brexit, the Net Zero transition, an older population and rapid technological change - com... Read more...

Financial Times

UK business groups call for mandatory reporting of ethnicity pay gap

Amid criticism of a government-commissioned race report for downplaying the extent of problems in the labour market, Alan Manning explains there's no evidence for pay gaps being smaller than they we... Read more...

The Conversation

Ensuring the minimum wage keeps up with economic growth would be the best way to help workers and preserve FDR?s legacy

In light of the Biden adminstration's Covid-19 Relief Bill, Felix Koenig analysis the historical impact of minum wage bills on jobs and wages. ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Sounds: Today Programme

Lee Elliot Major is invited onto BBC Radio 4’s Today programme [1:15:20] to talk about pupil catchup funding, the national tutoring programme and inequalities. ... Read more...

LSE Ideas

UK Economic Diplomacy report published: CEP experts on commission

The final report of the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission, which proposes a framework for the UK’s trade agenda that seeks to balance commercial openness with strategic domestic and foreign policy aims, ... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Why Britain's falling population equals economic trouble

Alan Manning considers the possible outcomes of a drop in immigration and population growth on productivity, economic growth and the labour market. ... Read more...

Hindustan Times

Farm laws: What India can learn from Kenya?s agri experiment

Swati Dhingra examines a decade of high-quality farmer-buyer data from Kenya during a period when it introduced radical farm laws to encourage agri-businesses to determine impacts on small farmers. ... Read more...

The Times

Build back wellbeing and you will truly level everyone up

Richard Layard and Gus O’Donnell write about the need for policy makers to aim for the wellbeing of the people, now and to come – focusing more on what matters to people, their mental and physical ... Read more...

The Big Issue

It is time for Britain to create its own New Deal

Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin remember the drive behind Roosevelt's New Deal which created millions of jobs during America's Great Depression in the 1930s and examine how government policy could ... Read more...

Financial Times

Covid crisis threatens UK boom in self-employed work

New research by Jack Blundell, Steven Machin and Maria Ventura finds a fifth of the self-employed workforce expect to leave self-employment as a result of the Covid-19 crisis; and the proportion is h... Read more...

The Times

Self-employed switching to regular jobs

A survey by Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura finds one in five self-employed workers plan to switch to other forms of employment because of Covid-19. ... Read more...

The Guardian

A million people may quit self-employment in Covid-hit UK ? study

Survey findings from Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura finds the trend of more people working for themselves under threat during the Covid-19 pandemic. A fifth of the self-employed... Read more...

British Medical Journal

Taking a wellbeing-years approach to policy choice

Every day, policy makers have to decide whether a policy is desirable by examining its impact on a whole range of outcomes. But the problem is how to aggregate these disparate outcomes. Richard Layard et al&nb... Read more...

BNN Bloomberg

The world is losing the money laundering fight

Amidst increasing levels of money laundering, Tom Kirchmaier suggests a three-step solution to the issues faced by banks. ... Read more...

VoxEU

Importing inequality: immigration and the top 1%

Top incomes have grown rapidly in recent decades and this growth has sparked a debate about rising inequality in Western societies. Felix Koenig et al investigate whether migration can account for the maj... Read more...

The Guardian

How coronavirus piled misery on India's workers

Shania Bhalotia, Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kondirolli examine the impact of lockdown imposed in late March on more than 8,500 urban workers, finding 52% went without work or pay during lockdown, while less than... Read more...

Bloomberg

India?s Gen Z Risks Getting Left Out of Formal Jobs, Study Says

India has been struggling with an unemployment problem and the coronavirus pandemic. New research by Shania Bhalotia, Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kondirolli, finds Federal and state governments recogniz... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

Why we need to do something about the monopsony power of employers

Why we need to do something about the monopsony power of employers - Alan Manning writes about how monopsony lowers worker mobility and wages, in this new blog article at LSE. ... Read more...

The Independent

Low-income workers three times more likely to have hours cut during pandemic then high-income workers

'Realistic' unemployment rate is 15 per cent, and disadvantaged groups are much more likely to be affected, finds new research by Brian Bell, Mihai Codreanu and Stephen Machin. ... Read more...

The Telegraph

The future of skyscrapers: a mile high, slimmer than ever and made from wood

Paul Cheshire, associate of the CEP, talks about how planning rules shape London and why big-name trophy architects are used so often, in this piece about the future of skyscrapers. ... Read more...

Local Government Chronicle

Pay rather than visa system will tackle social care recruitment

Employers are not vocal enough about the need for higher pay, writes Alan Manning, former chair of the government's Migration Advisory Committee and professor of economics aat LSE. ... Read more...

The Guardian

End of the office: the quiet, grinding loneliness of working from home

The assumption has been that remote workers slack without direct supervision. But do they? Economist Nick Bloom staged a trial – the first of its kind – involving 250 members of a Ctrip call cen... Read more...

The Telegraph

Social care targets UK jobless as Government closes off migrant recruitment in new points system

Social care companies are starting to tap into the growing pool of potential employees who have lost jobs in the Covid-19 crisis.  Alan Manning, former Chair of the Government's Migration Advisory ... Read more...

Felix Koenig wins the EALE Young Labour Economists Prize 2020

Congratulations to Dr Felix Koenig on winning the 2020 Young Labour Economist Prize from the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE). The prize was awarded for his CEP discussion paper: Technical C... Read more...

Blogs: Economics Observatory

How is coronavirus affecting the self-employed?

The self-employed are being hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 crisis. Many have been offered a lifeline through the government’s Self-Employment Income Support Scheme – but does it go far enoug... Read more...

The Independent

Lockdown burnout: Women face mental exhaustion as they juggle childcare, housework and jobs

Professor Barbara Petrongolo talks to the Independent about her research into how women are more likely to deal with homeschooling, childcare and chores around the house, even if they are working. ... Read more...

About Manchester

More than a third of self-employed `lack money for basics?

The survey, published by the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), finds that the self-employed have been hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 crisis, with around three out of every four responde... Read more...

Independent

Women bearing burden of childcare and homeschooling in lockdown, study finds.

Report on research by Dr Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo which suggests the coronavirus outbreak is widening the gender gap in the workplace and at home. ... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

How is Covid-19 affecting businesses in the UK?

Real-time survey data shows that 50% of companies had a lower volume of business in April, and the situation is expected to get worse over the next three months, write Swati Dhingra and Josh De Lyon. ... Read more...

Independent

A former head of the civil service has warned that Boris Johnson?s ?levelling up? agenda is in danger of becoming a casualty of the coronavirus recession.

Speaking to Econ Films’ CoronaNomics show Lord Gus O’Donnell said he feared the impact of the lockdown was undermining the Prime Minister’s ambitions of reducing income and regional... Read more...

Hindustan Times

It?s time to refresh old ideas like universal job guarantee

Even in more advanced countries, national statistics have proved inadequate in recording informal workers outside the organised sector, especially the new breed of self-employed and temporary workers in cities... Read more...

Blogs: VoxEU

Protecting informal workers in urban India: The need for a universal job guarantee

The Covid-19 lockdown implemented in India is estimated to have tripled the urban unemployment rate. Most low-income urban workers will fall through the cracks of the provisions being put in place to supp... Read more...

Blogs: VoxEU

COVID-19 and gender gaps: Latest evidence and lessons from the UK

This column combines survey data from the UK with occupation classifications to show that that – unlike previous recessions – the current crisis is harming women’s labour market prospects mor... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Business Review

Covid-19 is increasing the divide in life chances between rich and poor

Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin propose reforms and urgent actions to tackle economic and educational inequalities in the UK. ... Read more...

New York Times

The World Has a $2.5 Trillion Problem. Here's How to Solve It.

The coronavirus has not yet exploded in the developing world, but poor countries are already suffering from the pandemic. Their economies have been battered by lockdowns, falling commodity prices, declining re... Read more...

TES

How rocketing unemployment damages children's education

Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, CEP research economist, writes about how job insecurity during the Covid-19 crisis will dramatically affect education outcomes for the families involved. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Labour Markets

Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms

Research on childcare and gender norms in Sweden, shows that policy changes had a bigger effect if they were in line with people's norms than if they worked against them. Published 2019. ... Read more...

Relevant research: Labour Markets

The gig economy and worker's preferences for steady jobs

This research finds that workers in atypical employment, such as gig economy workers, are willing to give up approximately 50% of their hourly wage for a permanent contract and around 35% of their hourly wage ... Read more...

Relevant research: Growth

Does working from home work? Evidence from a Chinese experiment

This paper uses evidence of increased productivity among two samples of call centre staff working from home to highlight the potential in new management methods. Published 2013. ... Read more...

CentrePiece

The UK's self-employed workers: who they are and what they need

Jack Blundell identifies groups among self-employed workers, to aid in finding methods to support and protect workers through public policy. ... Read more...

Blogs: LSE Politics and Policy

COVID-19 and wages: prepare for large cuts if you are younger and work in a small firm

Brian Bell, Nick Bloom, Jack Blundell, and Luigi Pistaferri estimate how the ongoing pandemic may impact earnings by age group, gender, and firm size. The data suggests that young men ... Read more...

Blogs: VoxEU

The large and unequal impact of COVID-19 on workers

The spread of COVID-19 has already had a large negative impact on labour supply and earnings of workers in many countries. In this column, the authors leverage newly collected data from the US and the UK to sh... Read more...

Bloomberg News Wire

How Low U.K. Unemployment Masked Holes Exposed By Virus Pandemic

The U.K. has record-high employment and the lowest jobless rate since the 1970s. But the labor market - and many workers - are more vulnerable to the economic fallout from the coronavirus than those headline n... Read more...

Blogs: VoxEU

Building effective short-time work schemes for the COVID-19 crisis

Short-time work is a subsidy for temporary reductions in the number of hours worked in firms affected by temporary shocks. Evidence suggests that it can have large positive effects on employment and ... Read more...

Blogs: LSE European Politics and Policy

Coronavirus crisis: Coverage from around Europe

A selection of comments from academics, journalists and other experts on the crisis facing many countries across Europe. ... Read more...

Blogs: LSE British Politics and Policy

Budget 2020: a bold response to coronavirus, but more must be done if it becomes widespread in the UK

While the 2020 Budget offers an overall adequate response to the challenges currently posed by coronavirus, there are three issues that need to be addressed further, especially as the outbreak becomes more wid... Read more...

BBC Radio 4 Analysis

Unequal England

Professor Stephen Machin, director of CEP, and Henry Overman, research director of CEP, contribute to an investigation into the differences in wages and opportunities across the country and why some towns and ... Read more...

National Review

Contra the Skeptics, Trade and Technology Really Do Benefit Most American Workers

Robots and other new technologies change the mix of tasks and jobs, but they do not decrease the overall demand for labor. Automation can replace existing tasks, especially jobs involving routine manual labor,... Read more...

New Statesman

The long and winding road to HS3

Transport upgrades are a key part of the Northern Powerhouse strategy, but there is some criticism about how much large-scale public investment in transport can act as a panacea for economic development. Profe... Read more...

Financial Times

UK backs restrictions on low-skilled migrants; Conservative government; Ministers say plans are based on aspects of Australia's points system

As part of the new system, the government is expected to drop plans for a salary threshold of £30,000 for applicants. The government immigration adviser, the Migration Advisory Committee, recommended las... Read more...

Local Government Chronicle

Henry Overman: Manifestos show parties don?t understand regional divides

Policies targeted at specific places don't always benefit the intended people, the research director of the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance warns. ... Read more...

Investorschronicle.co.uk

Labour and sterling

Not quite. The problem is uncertainty. A Corbyn government would break with the economic policies we have been accustomed to since the 1980s. This alone generates uncertainty. And the clichè is right; markets real... Read more...

Metro (UK)

Locals pay the price for ban on second homes in St Ives

But their ban has backfired, according to a report by the London School of Economics. The developers have simply walked away, causing the number of new homes being built to shrink and for prices to soar. And ... Read more...

Falmouth Packet

Second homes ban in St Ives, Cornwall backfires according to new study

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Cornwall Live

St Ives second homes ban backfired new study claims

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The Telegraph

St Ives second home ban backfires as construction companies leave and house prices rise, LSE study finds

However, Professor Christian Hilber believes the ban could increase the "ghost town effect" as it inadvertently reduced the number of available homes due to building companies finding new work in surrounding areas. The ... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

The ABCD of social mobility: four game-changing policies

How can social mobility be improved? Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin write that merely tweaking existing policies will not transform society. They outline four major changes that have the potential to actually do so.... Read more...

Research Professional

Swings and silicon roundabouts

Max Nathan is an associate professor at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. London's technology ecosystem is thriving. The city has more than 50,000 tech firms, with over 260,000 employe... Read more...

Local Government Chronicle

Henry Overman: Lessons on how to help `left behind places?

Disadvantaged areas need evidence-based approaches, not policy innovation, argues the director of the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. Evidence-based policy in disadvantaged places, What Works Centre for Eco... Read more...

What Works Centre for Economic Growth Blog

How can evidence-based policy help in disadvantaged places?

We are very pleased to have launched our collaborative work on disadvantaged places. This project looks in depth at policy, and the use of evidence, in places in the UK that are most disadvantaged, sometimes referred to... Read more...

OUP blog

How alternative employment contracts affect low wage workers

Contemporary labour markets are characterised by more atypical or alternative work arrangements. Some of these - like independent contractors - have emerged in the context of self-employment, while others - like zero hou... Read more...

Leverhulme Trust

2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners

Congratulations to Benjamin Moll and Xavier Jaravel, who are both winners of this year's Philip Leverhulme Prizes.... Read more...

Investors Chronicle

PATRIOT GAMES; James Norrington examines how investors might position their portfolios in an era of economic nationalism

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) releases its Pink and Blue Books on the balance of payments at the end of October (interestingly the date is later than usual and coincides with the current Brexit departure date)... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Book Review: Social Mobility and its Enemies by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin

In Social Mobility and its Enemies, Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin offer a thought-provoking assessment of the state of social mobility in Britain. In the context of much social and political change and rising level... Read more...

C-Span

US Congress - Video Clip Of Race and Gender-Based Wealth Gaps [02:40]

Lisa Cook, Michigan State University Economics Professor references Opportunity Insights' Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Pet... Read more...

mepca

A Call to (Robotic) Arms

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...

EXPRESS (Online)

Piers Morgan takes swipe at Remainers' project fear after Britain sees investment boom

Another, Swati Dhingra, lecturer in economics at the London School of Economics, said that since the EU referendum, "the number of foreign investments and expansions… are showing disconcerting reductions."... Read more...

The Sunday Telegraph (London)

Build 1,000 'commuter villages' on green belt, ministers urged

Home Affairs editor A THOUSAND "commuter villages" with 2.1million new homes should be built on the green belt near railway stations to help solve the housing crisis, a leading government adviser and academic has propose... Read more...

The Sunday Telegraph

Red alert for unions as Corbyn and Labour bid to reverse tide of decline; With the dogfight between pilots and airlines called off, overall disputes are the lowest on record amid a long-term fall in union members

Prof Stephen Machin, at the London School of Economics, says on the decline in membership: "It is not because of getting rid of unions where they are already in place, it is actually the failure to organise new workplace... Read more...

The Telegraph

How the trade unions? Labour stranglehold is belying their increasing irrelevance in the workplace

Prof Stephen Machin at the London School of Economics says on the decline in membership: "It is not because of getting rid of unions where they are already in place, it is actually the failure to organise new workplaces.... Read more...

Business in Vancouver

How Canada can up the country?s lacklustre innovation game

A new paper by economists Nicholas Bloom, John Van Reenen and Heidi Williams canvasses the principal policies that governments have used to nurture innovation. A Toolkit of Policies to Promote Innovation, Nicholas Bloom... Read more...

Youtube

LSE Shape the World

Interview with CEP’s Ria Ivandic about the CEP Crime research programme.    ... Read more...

MENAFN

The AI road to serfdom?

Ignore for a moment, the horrendous costs involved in this wholesale re-direction of human work. The question is which jobs are most at risk in which sectors. According to MIT economist David Autor, automation will subst... Read more...

WeForum

Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment

Of course, the elasticity of the response to automation is an empirical question. Recent studies indeed find evidence of positive employment responses in some industries with new information technologies, automation, and... Read more...

VOXEU

Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment

Of course, the elasticity of the response to automation is an empirical question. Recent studies indeed find evidence of positive employment responses in some industries with new information technologies, automation, and... Read more...

Capital (Newspaper)

What would happen if Facebook were turned off?

Such things occur outside idle thought experiments. Guy Michaels, of the London School of Economics, and Ferdinand Rauch, of the University of Oxford, studied the fortunes of Roman-era towns in Britain and France. When t... Read more...

LSE Business Review

How management structures can help firms hire and keep their best people

More structured managerial practices have a strong relationship with firm productivity, writes Daniela Scur. ... Read more...

China Times

Chinese editorial, Hong Kong, Taiwan, are you happy?

The national survey on happiness index is a late development, because social economists have found that although the economies of various countries will grow more or less, the happiness of the people has not continued to... Read more...

Die Welt

The dream of a better life for children is in danger; Not even half of the 30-year-old British reach the salary level of their parents. The phenomenon is less pronounced in Germany

Just 41 percent of all 30-year-olds earned more in 2017 than their parents did when they were the same age. Two decades earlier, the proportion had been two-thirds higher: in 1995, 69 percent of the age group were better... Read more...

La Republica

Guerra comercial esta llevando a algunas empresas a reducir inversiones", The Economist / Trade war is leading some companies to reduce investments, The Economist

The high level of uncertainty is measurable. A 2016 study by Scott Baker of Northwestern University, Nick Bloom of Stanford University, and Steven Davis of the University of Chicago, quantified political uncertainty in t... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Is the big-box store killing Main Street?

City centres aren't dying as a response to big-box openings; they are only changing their commercial structure, writes Maria Sanchez-Vidal. ... Read more...

CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog (formerly SERC)

Why banning the construction of second homes in St. Ives and elsewhere has been a bad idea and what to do instead

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LSE Business Review

Most trade in services happens between cities rather than countries

Facilitating trade in services, particularly knowledge-intensive ones, requires strong global cities as trade hubs, write Saul Estrin and Daniel Shapiro.... Read more...

LSE Business Review

The 2018 trade war: consumers are paying a high price

There is an almost complete pass-through of tariffs into prices paid by US importers; consumers pick up the tab, write Mary Amiti, Stephen Redding and David E. Weinstein.... Read more...

LSE US Centre

How the Panama Canal reshaped the economic geography of the United States

More than a century ago, the opening of the Panama Canal revolutionized international trade by making it much quicker and easier to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But, write Stephan Maurer and Ferdinand ... Read more...

The Times

Ban on second homes backfires in Cornwall

A study at the London School of Economics has found that such bans damage local construction and tourism industries. At the same time, outsiders, who are banned from new-build homes, flood the market for older places, pu... Read more...

VideoVox

The Rise of Superstar Firms

John Van Reenen, MIT, discusses work he has done on how 'superstar firms' such as Google and Apple have changed the global economy. The superstars, although big, employ relatively few workers and this has contributed to ... Read more...

BBC Online

Lockington Crescent: 'We camped in our cars to buy a house'

Properties on the Lockington Crescent estate were on the market for between £4,500 and £7,000 - considerably cheaper than in London, where homes were up to 30% more expensive, according to economic historian ... Read more...

naked capitalism

Mobility and the Desire for Sovereignity in Europe

By Gianmarco Ottaviano, Professor of Economics, Bocconi University. Originally published at VoxEU... Read more...

VOX CEPR Policy Portal

The economic geography of sovereignist Europe

By Gianmarco Ottaviano Economic geography strikes back. After a couple of decades of easy talk about the 'death of distance' in the age of globalisation, the promise of a world of rising living standards for all is inc... Read more...

Le Monde

When the tax at 75% was removed, the number of taxpayers declaring more than 1 million euros per year has increased

The income declared by the richest fell sharply between 2012 and 2013, report four economists, among whom Philippe Aghion. But is this a real decrease, or a more widespread practice of tax optimization?... Read more...

Project Syndicate

The Roots of Our Discontent

Tito Boeri interviews Raghuram G. Rajan With industrialized countries beset by a political backlash against trade, technology, migration, and other hallmarks of the modern global economy, expert solutions are needed now... Read more...

BBC Radio

Today in Parliament (18:10 ? 22:00)

Coverage of LSE's #EvidencePod at Evidence Week in Parliament.... Read more...

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Three Years since the Brexit Vote: Looking Back

3) In the Fall 2017 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Thomas Sampson sums up the research on what is known and what might come next in "Brexit: The Economics of International Disintegration," In turn, I... Read more...

VoxEU

Patri budoucnost statnimu kapitalismu? / Does the future belong to state capitalism?

The achievements of the Chinese and Vietnamese economies lead to a debate on state capitalism as a viable model of further development. Economists Leonardo Baccini, Giammario Impullitti and Edmund Malesky present on VoxE... Read more...

Farming UK

Egg producers criticise critical labour after Brexit list

MAC chairman Professor Alan Manning said: "Today's labour market is very different to the one we reviewed when the last SOL was published in 2013. "Unemployment is lower and employers in various industries are facing di... Read more...

Yahoo! India

Ease of Living: Modi Sets the Agenda for Cutting Red Tape

In the latest Happiness Report, authors John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs highlight the fact that links between government and happiness operate both ways, i.e., what governments do affects happiness... Read more...

Lewiston Sun Journal

Robert Samuelson: Trade seen as a way to punish adversaries

In a fascinating new paper, economists David Jacks and Dennis Novy argue that today's contentious trade disputes recall what happened during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Led by Great Britain and Germany, competing ... Read more...

The Globe and Mail (Canada)

Trump's trade wars spin out of control; His methods will do more harm than good if - and he seems to want this - it leads to a reduction in global Commerce

"At the moment, we have not witnessed a wholesale collapse of the modern trading system. This is partially for the fact that policymakers seem to have learned some of the lessons of interwar history by not responding in ... Read more...

Spectator

Donald Trump has done Britain a favour with his NHS grab

Who compromises most in such cases? Generally, size matters: big trading economies are usually in a position to dictate terms to smaller partners. In the words of professor Dennis Novy of the University of Warwick: "Th... Read more...

WFAE 90.70 (podcast)

The Economic Impact Of The U.S. Moving Away From Big Multi-Lateral Trade Agreements

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KCCU (podcast)

The Economic Impact Of The U.S. Moving Away From Big Multi-Lateral Trade Agreements

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KGOU (podcast)

The Economic Impact Of The U.S. Moving Away From Big Multi-Lateral Trade Agreements

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The Guardian

Next Bank of England governor must serve the whole of society; 94 academics and representatives of civil society organisations call for Mark Carney's successor to be someone who will foster a pluralistic policymaking culture

Snippet... Philippe Aghion London School of Economics Felix Fitzroy St Andrews Marianne Sensier University of Manchester Christine Cooper University of Edinburgh Elisa Van Waeyenberge Soas Roberto Veneziani Queen Mary Un... Read more...

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The Economic Impact Of The U.S. Moving Away From Big Multi-Lateral Trade Agreements

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L' Adige

Festival, serve un rilancio non la rivoluzione / Festival, we need a revival, not a revolution

Populism has been used by right-wing forces as a lever to undermine the ruling elite, exploiting discontent. The solution? "The European Union now has the task of working on a new idea of sovereignty, which goes beyond n... Read more...

Pakistan Today

A budget looking beyond economic growth

In the words of Professor Richard Layard, an expert on life satisfaction across populations, of the London School of Economics, 'this budget is a game-changing event.' Moreover, he indicated that there is 'no other major... Read more...

Financial Times

The case for making wellbeing the goal of government policy

These questions have confronted utilitarians, the most influential of whom was the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, from the beginning. But some modern-day utilitarians, foremost among them Richard Layard of the London School... Read more...

Financial Times

UK urged to expand priority list of occupations open to migrants

Explaining the changes, Professor Alan Manning, chair of the committee, said the labour market was "very different" to the one that existed during the last shortage occupations review six years ago."Unemployment is lower... Read more...

The Guardian

Wellbeing should replace growth as 'main aim of UK spending'

The paper, from the all-party parliamentary group on wellbeing economics, written by O'Donnell and other leading MPs and peers, calls on the government to use the spending review to boost its funding for mental health se... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Interview with Richard Layard on the Report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Wellbeing Economics

The report, which is launched today, comes from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Wellbeing Economics. The authors include Lord Gus O'Donnell (the former Cabinet Secretary), Chris Ruane MP (chair), Lord Richard Layard... Read more...

The New York Times Online

New Zealand?s Next Liberal Milestone: A Budget Guided by `Well-Being?

"This budget is a game-changing event," said Richard Layard, a professor at the London School of Economics who is an expert on life satisfaction across populations. New Zealand is not the only country that is starting t... Read more...

Raconteur

Can and should manufacturing be brought home?

Dr Swati Dhingra, assistant professor at the London School of Economics, specialising in globalisation and industrial policy, says there's not enough trained staff to power it. "Compared to other creative or tech-based ... Read more...

BBC Radio Kent

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San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial: Counting the trade war?s casualties

The economic losses from Trump's trade war compound that burden. A study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Columbia University and Princeton University found that trade warfare was costing Americans... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

Who Pays the Trump Tariffs? We Do, These Americans Say

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Financial Times

US consumers start to pay price of trade war with China

Research from Mary Amiti of the New York Fed, Stephen Redding of Princeton University and David Weinstein of Columbia University in March found that the "full incidence" of the tariffs has fallen on domestic consumers so... Read more...

BBC News

Who loses out in the US-China trade war?

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NPR (Radio)

Most Americans Still Don't Know What The Latest Round Tariffs Mean For Their Pocketbooks

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Poor children have poor outcomes ? but income is only half the story

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The New York Times

Trump?s Trade War Escalation Will Exact Economic Pain, Adviser Says

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The New York Times

Trump?s Tariffs Are a New Tax on Americans

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Speigel Online

"Dieser Handelskrieg kann noch viel hasslicher werden"

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Washington Post Blogs

Trump's latest scam: Defining poverty out of existence; The administration doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

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Journal of Urban Economics

Relocation of public sector workers: Evaluating a place-based policy

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LSE Politics & Policy Blog

Childhood circumstances and young adult outcomes: the role of parental financial problems

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Parliamentary Debate

Migration Advisory Cttee (MAC) - Parliamentary Debate

During a debate on the composition of the MAC, it was noted that the Chairman, Professor Alan Manning, is an economist from LSE. George Eustice MP (Con, Cambourne and Redruth) called for the Cttee to be expanded to bring... Read more...

VOX Talks (Podcast)

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Finance.co.uk

GENERATION GAP: Evidence that young Brits are now less likely to `do better? than their parents

Doing better financially than your parents is an important marker of success, and for much of the last half century, real earnings growth in the UK was strong enough that most young people achieved this milestone. But ne... Read more...

Caixan online / The blog of the Shannon Economic Academic Circle

Do we need industrial policies? Evidence from regional funding programs

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Daily Mail

Young people are doing WORSE than their parents: Just a THIRD of 30-year-olds are earning more than their dads

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NIHCM Foundation

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LSE Business Review

The value of having a view to a canal

House prices indicate the value of canals as an environmental resource to local residents in England and Wales, write Stephen Gibbons, Cong Peng and Cheng Keat Tang. ... Read more...

PRI (Radio)

Who?s paying for Trump?s tariffs? China, or American shoppers?

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Bloomberg.com

Evidence Grows That Trump's Trade Wars Are Hitting U.S. Economy

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TIME

Trump's Trade War Is Costing Americans $3 Billion a Month in Higher Taxes, Study Says

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Wall Street Journal

Real Time Economics: The U.S. Trade Deficit Is About to Break Another Record

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The Economist

Trade talks will probably end with tariffs still in place

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The Financial Times

Is the Lighthizer brigade about to charge through London?

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Stigler Centre

The Costs of Trump?s Import Tariffs Have Landed Entirely on US Citizens

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Improving resilience to devastating floods

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The LightHouse

A disorderly divorce: why a reversal of Brexit could be the best outcome

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Fortune

Trump Tariffs Shedding $1.4 Billion a Month in Consumer Income, Study Says

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CNBC

Trump tariffs costing US consumers $1.4 billion per month, study shows

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Trump is learning the wrong lessons from Ronald Reagan ? innovation policy is better than protectionism

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Bank of England policymaker warns of risk to UK jobs market

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Politics is failing on Brexit but economics has been on the money

A few days before the vote, three of the UK's most reputable economic institutions - the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for Economic Performance at the... Read more...

Bloomberg

BOE?s Haskel Warns Brexit Deal May Not End Economic Uncertainty

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iNews

How are British housebuilders making such juicy profits amid a housing crisis?

But according to a forthcoming paper from Felipe Carozzi, Christian Hilber and Xiaolun Yu of the London School of Economics, the clearest impact of Help to Buy has been to raise house prices, potentially by as much as 5 ... Read more...

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Why British housebuilders are making such juicy profits

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China Daily

Trade dispute costing US billions, 2 studies find

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Opinion: Forget what Donald Trump said: Tariffs are a tax on American consumers

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The Washington Post

As trade deficit explodes, Trump finds he can?t escape the laws of economics

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South China Morning Post

Tariff war cost US companies and consumers US$44 billion a month in 2018

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The Japan Times

Evidence grows that Trump's trade wars are hitting U.S. economy and Americans are footing the tariffs

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Trump Tariffs Shedding $1.4 Billion a Month in Consumer Income, Study Says

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A Boom in High-Rises Alters London's Skyline

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Woodrow Wilson School

Trade War Results in Substantial Losses for U.S. & Other Countries

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Trade war results in substantial losses for US and other countries

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Washington Examiner

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Trump's trade war cost Americans $1.4 billion a month last year, according to a new report

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Evidence Grows That Trump's Trade Wars Are Hitting U.S. Economy

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Vanity Fair

Trump?s Dumb Trade War Cost Americans $3 Billion a Month Last Year

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As Trump Moves to End Trade War With China, Business Asks: Was It Worth It?

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Technological Revolutions Must be Matched by Policies

Phlippe Aghion (College of France, LSE, and CEPR) discusses work on merged datasets from the UK - one detailing occupation & wages, the other looking at R&D and investment. ... Read more...

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Economists believe "firms are more productive if they're in larger cities" says Henry Overman, a Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. What Works Well Centre for Economic Growth ... Read more...

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UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST - Happiness is easy to venerate but much harder to generate

Just as with GDP, it is only when we move to the specifics that gross national happiness becomes useful. Richard Layard, a leading happiness researcher, argues mental illness is a leading cause of misery, and it can be t... Read more...

The New York Times

How Goes the Trade War?

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CEPR Discussion Paper

The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare

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CEP research featured in Chapter 7, ?Adapting to Technological Change with Artificial Intelligence while Mitigating Cyber Threats?

These conclusions are consistent with not only theoretical models of economics featuring AI in general equilibrium (Aghion, Jones, and Jones 2017) but also with evidence on how the introduction of robots raised labor pro... Read more...

Financial Times

Happiness is easy to venerate but much harder to generate

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Alternatives Economiques

La pub ne fait pas le bonheur CLAIMS Advertising does not make happiness

From Thorstein Veblen to Richard Layard, to Richard Easterlin and others, several economists have spent the last century trying to ... [paywall] Happiness: Lessons from a new science, Richard Layard, Penguin 2011 IS... Read more...

The New Statesman

We need a political party that is tough on the causes of Brexit. The Independent Group isn?t

Economists like David Blanchflower, John Van Reenen and I set out just how bad UK economic performance had been over the previous five years, but once again expertise was ignored. As far as the media were concerned, redu... Read more...

VOXEU

The economic effects of density: A synthesis

Most countries pursue policies that implicitly or explicitly aim at promoting 'compact urban form', but so far these policies have not been well-grounded in evidence. This column summarises the state of knowledge on the ... Read more...

The Australian

What-if-facebook-never-saw-the-sun

Such things occur outside idle thought experiments. Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics and Ferdinand Rauch, of the University of Oxford studied ... [paywall] ... Read more...

The Economist

What would happen if Facebook were turned off?

Guy Michaels, of the London School of Economics, and Ferdinand Rauch, of the University of Oxford, studied the fortunes of Roman-era towns in Britain and ... [paywall] ... Read more...

Times Higher Education (Online)

The week in higher education

The UK government's lead adviser on migration has claimed that the Home Office's net migration target no longer drives policy. Alan Manning, professor of economics at the London School of Economics and chair of the Migra... Read more...

The Daily Star

Brexit referendum spurs British firms into investing in EU

The referendum result led to a 12 percent increase in foreign direct investment transactions from Britain into the EU between mid-2016 and September 2018, researchers from the London School of Economics' Centre for Econo... Read more...

Vox

Brexit and outward investment by UK firms

Media reports suggest that some UK firms have started to move production abroad in anticipation of Brexit. Using data on announcements of new foreign investment transactions, this column reports evidence that the Brexit ... Read more...

Express (online)

Brexit BETRAYAL: Firms ditch UK to invest #7.7 BILLION in EU claim London experts

Dennis Novy, one of the report's authors, told CNBC: "The economic risk of Brexit is larger on the UK side of the Channel.... Read more...

Continental Telegraph

Brexit Is Reducing UK Domestic Investment And Foreign

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Sky News

Brexit is clearly taking its toll on UK economic growth

A study published this morning by the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE dissects how foreign investment has changed behaviour since the referendum. According to the LSE researchers, UK firms appear to have star... Read more...

LSE Brexit Blog

Voting with their money: Brexit and outward investment by UK firms

Are firms moving investment abroad because of Brexit? Holger Breinlich, Elsa Leromain, Dennis Novy and Thomas Sampson (LSE) use a 'doppelganger method' to estimate how foreign direct investment would have evolved without... Read more...

CNBC

British firms have diverted $10 billion of investment to the EU due to Brexit, study claims

A study conducted by academics from the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) looked into how the vote to leave the EU has affected outward investment by U.K. companies. ... Read more...

CNBC Europe

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LSE Business Review (Blog)

The challenge of dealing with `double disruption?: Brexit and technology

The UK needs a new era of policy activism with a 'future of good work' focus, write Christopher Pissarides, Anna Thomas and Josh De Lyon.... Read more...

VOX CEPR Policy Portal

Winners, losers and future prospects: The economic geography of transition countries

Klaus Desmet, David Krisztian Nagy, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Nathaniel Young The economic geography of transition economies has changed dramatically over the last quarter century, with large urban areas growing fast and ... Read more...

Quarterly Journal of Economics

The Price Ain?t Right? Hospital prices and health spending on the privately insured

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The Financial Times

Three strategies for left-behind places

The first is a strategy of reversal. This consists of interventions that aim to offset or compensate for the technological and market dynamics that cause cost disadvantages for value creation in left-behind places - plac... Read more...

Bloomberg

Plenty of Uber drivers are loving their jobs too

A survey by Stephen Machin and Giulia Giupponi, two researchers at the London School of Economics, involved more than 20,000 self-employed, gig economy and zero-hours respondents. On average, workers on zero-hour contrac... Read more...

Le Monde

Paul Seabright : < La politique industrielle a la capacite de soutenir l?emploi et l?investissement > / Paul Seabright: "Industrial policy has the capacity to support jobs and investment"

A British study estimated the impact of public subsidies in regions in difficulty. If a gain for the job was found but the big companies, first beneficiaries, do not change their behavior, notes the professor of economy ... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy Blog

David Cameron, David Beckham, and the UK?s social mobility problem

Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin explain how Britain has become less mobile, particularly at the top and bottom of society. Social Mobility And Its Enemies, Lee Elliot Major & Stephen Machin, Pelican, October 2018... Read more...

Financial Times

May moves on workers? rights in pursuit of legacy beyond Brexit

Alongside the new labour market rights, the government is also set to create a new single labour market enforcement body following a review by David Metcalf, the UK's first director of labour market enforcement, who re... Read more...

The Economist

Letters to the editor

Snippet: ... Build, build, build! Free exchange (November 24th) argued that there is more to high house prices in Britain than constrained supply. Well, yes, and no. The underlying cause of housing unaffordability is con... Read more...

CEP Urban and Spatial Programme Blog

Do foreign migrants `grease the wheels? of the labour market? [by Michael Amior]

Recent political developments in the US and Europe have led to renewed interest in the large and persistent regional disparities which plague our societies. These disparities have been partly driven by a secular decline ... Read more...

The Economist

Macron tries to buy off his critics

"Macron has acknowledged his past behavioural mistakes," said Philippe Aghion, an economist who advised him during his campaign but has judged him ... ... Read more...

New York Times

`Yellow Vest? Protests Shake France. Here?s the Lesson for Climate Change.

"We are in the transition period and the government has run into political economic problems," said Philippe Aghion, an economist at the prestigious College de France who advised Mr. Macron during his presidential campai... Read more...

VOX (Podcast)

Short-time work

Camille Landais, Giulia Giupponi interviewed by Tim Phillips, 07 December 2018 Even though countries all over the developed world implemented short-time work policies during the great recession, we didn't know whether ... Read more...

LSE Brexit Blog

Resist, Rebel and Remain: the nation deserves and demands a second chance

Parliament should vote down Theresa May's Brexit deal on Tuesday. John Van Reenen (MIT/LSE) writes that while the argument for remaining in the EU is fundamentally moral and political, and not economic, it is important f... Read more...

The Gulf Time

Something about Brexit everyone can agree on

For any Brexiters holding out the hope the EU would come to the UK's rescue because it too has much to lose from not reaching a deal, an analysis this week from the Center for Economic Performance offers l... Read more...

LSE Business Review (Blog)

Capitalising on technological change and the low-carbon transition in the UK

As the UK has sought to redefine its relationship with the EU and the rest of the world, a renewed focus on sustainable growth becomes more urgent, write James Rydge, Ralf Martin and Anna Valero.... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 ? Today (11/30/2018 8:05:03 AM)

Discussion of LSE research (Healthy Minds Project) urging the government to incorporate life skills into the national curriculum. Reported widely on local BBC radio stations. ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 - Today (11/30/2018 7:10:10 AM)

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YouthToday

Opinion: How Talented Kids From Low-income Families Become America?s `Lost Einsteins?

Innovation is widely viewed as the engine of economic growth. To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly wit... Read more...

The Times Literary Supplement

Happiness and the truth: How to think about well-being

What could go wrong? Many of the objections to happiness economics are well rehearsed. The authors (especially Richard Layard, who has spent the past decade reviving this neo-Benthamite idea), have heard them all and hav... Read more...

LSE Business Review

Developing an effective local industrial strategy for the UK

Evidence-based principles for local policymakers seeking to design an effective industrial strategy - by Henry Overman and Naomi Clayton. ... Read more...

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

New Labour's Domestic Policies: Neoliberal, Social Democratic or A Unique Blend?

Labour's move towards greater competition between hospitals where it was allowed may well have helped. Mortality rates for some illnesses appear to have declined faster where patient choice was expanded. CEP work cite... Read more...

Talk Radio

Discussion about the living wage

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve discusses the living wage with @EamonnHolmes on @talkRADIO Listen to @talkRADIO at 5.15pm this evening to hear Jan-Emmanuel De Neve discuss the #livingwage with @EamonnHolmes! @jedeneve pic.twitte... Read more...

The Independent

UK economy will suffer more than EU in 'no deal' Brexit scenario, warns IMF

The OECD estimated before the referendum that a WTO Brexit could cost the UK up to 5.1 percent of GDP over 15 years. A study by the London School of Economics estimated a 9.5 per cent hit. ... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

The problem with innovation: the biggest companies are hogging all the gains

There is a “lack of self-awareness among lots of firms,” says John Van Reenen, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Some think they are awesome. But they are ... Read more...

Vox

Currency unions mean more trade, but not for everyone

Article by Natalie Chen and Dennis Novy. Currency unions usually go hand in hand with deeper economic integration. But does that automatically mean more international trade? This column shows that since the en... Read more...

The UK in a Changing Europe press release

What the government's Brexit white paper must address

  A detailed assessment of what the government must address in its Brexit white paper has been carried out by academic think tank The UK in a Changing Europe.  The report – The Brexit w... Read more...

The Sunday Times

Should we be spending money on holidays and restaurants rather than homes?

The £15bn Crossrail will serve the Buckinghamshire village of Taplow, in the green belt, next year, yet no homes can be added there, noted Professor Paul Cheshire of the London School of Economics ... Read more...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Real time economics: is a tight labor market really, finally generating higher wages?

  Silicon Valley and the City of London should give up some of their massive gains from globalization to ensure workers in cities like Detroit and Hull do not continue to fall behind. But… &ldqu... Read more...

The Economist

We?re not just units of output

Letter from Richard Layard, Director, Wellbeing Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science:  “We now have the knowledge to implement that approach. Much of it is found in the annual... Read more...

FT

Dark factories: labour exploitation in Britain?s garment industry

Last year, the government appointed Sir David Metcalf to a newly created post: director of labour market enforcement. He published his first strategy last week, devoting a page to Leicester’s garment sec... Read more...

Out ? Law.com

Warning to UK employers on low paid labour market enforcement

Sir David Metcalf was appointed in January 2017 to provide oversight and set strategic priorities for the government's three labour market enforcement agencies: the national minimum wage (NMW) enforcement ... Read more...

SME

Why robots are not taking our jobs

In 2015, a study by Guy Michaels and George Graetz (https://voxeu.org/article/robots-productivity-and-jobs) looked at the impact of robots in manufacturing, agriculture and utilities across 17 countries. They ... Read more...

Guardian

Firms could be named and shamed over abuse of workers' rights

Companies whose suppliers fail to pay the minimum wage or curb holiday pay could be named and shamed under a new regime proposed by the government’s workers’ rights tsar. In his first annual full s... Read more...

BBC News

Measures to tackle low pay exploitation published

Firms which exploit staff could face higher financial penalties and increased risk of prosecution under recommendations to the government. A report by a government-backed body has made 37 recommendations in... Read more...

IZA Newsroom

The costly consequences of just failing a high-stakes exam

A new study by IZA fellows Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally with Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela (all researchers at the London School of Economics) analyzes the benefits (or costs) for students who just pass (or fai... Read more...

Foreign Affairs

Trump?s trade rhetoric is already hurting America

Since Trump was elected president, many measures of policy uncertainty have jumped. Take the widely used monthly U.S. Policy Uncertainty Index created by the economists Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven ... Read more...

Parliamentlive.tv

Home Affairs Committee: Post-Brexit migration policy

Professor Alan Manning (CEP/LSE) gave evidence to the Home Affairs Parliamentary Committee regarding the post-Brexit migration policy. ... Read more...

El Carabobeno

Venezuela among the most unhappy countries in the world

  According to the authors of the report, John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs, there is a characteristic of Latin Americans that makes them different. "Unusually happy." Th... Read more...

Le Temps - blog (France)

Our societies pushed to the error by the GDP. When will we decide to change it?

Bhutan refers to gross national happiness; in Switzerland, 25 complementary indicators to GDP have been selected. The "economists of happiness" (such as Richard Layard of the London School of Economi... Read more...

LSE Business Review

The multiplier effect of the German government move to Berlin

Relocation is one successful example of public sector jobs boosting private sector activity, write Giulia Faggio, Teresa Schlüter and Philipp vom Berge.  In a recent SERC discussion paper, we study t... Read more...

Financial Times

Businesses back unrestricted access to EU workers after Brexit

British businesses want unrestricted access to European workers to continue after Brexit, describing them as better qualified and more motivated than their UK counterparts. The findings came in an interim repo... Read more...

Everywoman.com

The Origins of Happiness: The science of wellbeing over the life course

Book of the month:  We all know the adage that money doesn’t bring you happiness – but if not money, then what? That’s the question being asked in The Origins of Happiness: The Science o... Read more...

The Irish News

DUP openly supporting further division in our divided land

Opinion – Letters to the Editor:  Alastair Hamilton must acknowledge Brexit realities Writing in the Huffington Post Invest NI chief executive Alastair Hamilton has described the concern that Brexit... Read more...

Contrepoints

Les Geants du capitalisme menacent-ils la concurrence?/Do capitalist giants threaten competition?

The share of start-ups in employment in the United States has been declining since 1980. This is in line with that of David Autor and his coauthors on the rise of superstars, David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence ... Read more...

Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist blog

Should the government try to maximise happiness

“Money can’t buy me love,” sang The Beatles, although it is doubtful that this was a rigorous empirical claim. Still, nobody disputes that there’s more to life than money and a new book... Read more...

LSE Thinks - video

Dr Thomas Sampson - Why are the Conservatives so divided over Brexit?

Theresa May and her senior ministers try to come to an agreement over the government's approach to Brexit, in the latest of a series of meetings on the UK’s future relationship with the EU. As part o... Read more...

The Gulf Today

`Citizens? wellbeing priority?

DUBAI: Professor Jeffrey Sachs, renowned economist and Chair of the World Happiness Council, has led a plenary session to discuss the findings of the first Global Happiness Policy Report on the opening day of ... Read more...

The Times

Marathons, botox and sex: there's a perfect age to do everything

Research led by Richard Layard and published in a book, The Origins of Happiness, this month reveals that even ill health, a drop in income or being divorced or widowed makes relatively little difference to th... Read more...

LSE News

New book on the origins of happiness

A new book by Professor Richard Layard and colleagues presents evidence on the origins of happiness, drawing on unique survey data on over 100,000 individuals in Australia, Germany, the UK and the United State... Read more...

Wired Video

Documentary: how migrant entrepreneurs help power growth in the London economy

"Migrants are more likely, on average, to be self-employed and to start up companies." Max Nathan of CEP's Urban Programme interviewed for the documentary made by Wired in partnership with the Mu... Read more...

Teachappy

Teachers can have a huge impact on pupil wellbeing

On Monday 22nd January, I got to meet a #wellbeing hero of mine, Lord Richard Layard. Layard has been at the forefront of the wellbeing movement in the UK, forcing it onto the agenda of governments past and pr... Read more...

BantenNews.co.id (Indonesia)

Cinta bias dibeli dengan uang, tapi kebahagiaan tikak!/Love can be purchased with money, but no happiness

Thus said Professor Richard Layard, the leader of the research, as quoted from kompas.com. "In the past, the country has managed to overcome the problem of poverty, unemployment, education, and physical h... Read more...

Financial Times

The economics of happiness

... it is easy to sympathise with Thomas Jefferson’s remark, shortly after he stepped down as US president, that “The care of human life & happiness, & not their destruction, is the first &... Read more...

Gloucestershire Echo

Letters:Brexit aftermath is not rosy

…nearly six years.  The Centre for Economic Performance says that the vote has cost the … ... Read more...

Yahoo! UK and Ireland

Happiness and housework are as important as economic growth

A third problem with GDP is that it doesn’t tell us anything about whether or not people are satisfied with their lives. Nobel Prize-winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen have long argued that we shoul... Read more...

The Times

We must act now to prevent the skills gap becoming unbridgeable

The Federation of Master Builders reports that “skyrocketing” skill shortages mean that there are not enough workers available in all the key construction skills. The Black Country Chamber of Comme... Read more...

What Works Centre for Wellbeing blog

Origins of Happiness: new research

Today is the launch of The Origins of Happiness by Andrew Clark, Sarah Flèche, Richard Layard, Nick Powdthavee and George Ward. Prof. Layard outlines the key findings and recommendations from the resear... Read more...

The Mental Elf

The Origins of Happiness: can we predict life satisfaction?

  The prospect of this book did make me happy. The idea that a group of well-respected, eminent economists would be making the case that government should focus its efforts on increasing the happiness ... Read more...

CEP/LSE Press Release

The Origins of Happiness: A book on the science of wellbeing over the life course

Schools and individual teachers have a huge effect on the happiness of their children. Indeed, the school that children attend affects their happiness nearly as much as it affects their academic performance. W... Read more...

The British Psychological Society - Community Psychology Section

A Community Psychology Section response to `The Origins of Happines?

In his new book 'The Origins of Happiness', Richard Layard argues that the biggest predictor of happiness is not any economic factor, but rather mental health. Based on this, Layard prop... Read more...

The Sunday Times

Happiness is a warm Gus

Lord (Richard) Layard, the economist, hosted a dinner at the London School of Economics last week to celebrate the publication of a new book by him and his colleagues, called The Origins of Happiness. It is de... Read more...

Epoch Times (China)

Bonus spending to reduce the era of high pay for large companies gone

Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom and his cohort analyzed the federal revenue data from the late 1970s to 2013 and found that the gap has shrunk to 20%. Professor Bloom said: "The big pay has existed for ... Read more...

Macleans (Canada)

Editorial: MPs should put down their phones and get back to governing

  A recent British study by the Centre for Economic Performance compared student results across schools based on cellphone-use policies and concluded, "Schools that restrict access to mobile phone... Read more...

TIME online

17 Important Business Books Everyone Will Be Reading In 2018

‘The Origins of Happiness’ by by Andrew E. Clark,‎ Sarah Flèche,‎ Richard Layard,‎ Nattavudh Powdthavee,‎ and George Ward (Publication date - January 16) The authors behin... Read more...

Forbes

Prepare for a fightback against big tech

Fortunately, in an age when data is king, there are increasing amounts of facts and figures  to illustrate the problem. A paper published earlier this year by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology'... Read more...

Alternatives-economiques.fr (France)

Ce que nous dit l?indicateur du bonheur sur l?etat du monde/What the happiness indicator tells us about the state of the world

Moreover, despite the birth of a true sub-discipline of economics - the economy of happiness - it will still take more than 40 years between the publication of the great article founder Richard A. Easterlin (&... Read more...

Foreign Affairs

The Truth About the Minimum Wage

Article by Alan Manning.  It has been more than eight years since many of the United States’ cashiers, dishwashers, janitors, lifeguards, baggage handlers, baristas, manicurists, retail employees, h... Read more...

Business Daily

Open door policy could raise Nairobi?s status as African economic hub

In a paper title Brexit and the Impact of Immigration on the UK by Jonathan Wadsworth, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and John Van Reenen, the writers reveal that European Union (EU) immigration has triple... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

If we want to create jobs in local areas, the idea of `local? needs to be revisited

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...

LSE Business Review blog

If we want to create jobs in local areas, the idea of `local? needs to be revisited

New job openings attract not only local workers, but also those living relatively near, write Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo..... Related publications "How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence fro... Read more...

NIESR blog

Industrial strategy should include more support for retraining and upskilling

When the Industrial Strategy was up for consultation earlier in the year, my colleagues in the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) and I emphasised the importance of well-targeted Active Labour Mar... Read more...

Sydsvenskan (Sweden)

Debate Post: "Why is mental ill health and not poverty the main reason for a bad life?"

Richard Layard and his co-workers wanted to know how much money the British government has to allocate to reduce mental illness, physical ill health, unemployment and poverty. They concluded that the cheapest ... Read more...

The Denver Post

The moral urgency of mental health

If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. That principle is widely accepted and difficult to dispute. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity to reduce the gre... Read more...

LSE News

New study reveals hit to living standards from Brexit

Brexit is already costing the average UK household £7.74 per week or £404 per year, according to new analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and Po... Read more...

The Korea Herald

[Michael Plant, Peter Singer] The moral urgency of mental health

If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity to reduce the great misery caused by mental illness, even though the net cost... Read more...

Project Syndicate

The moral urgency of mental health

PRINCETON – If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. That principle is widely accepted and difficult to dispute. Yet Western governments are neglecting an opportunity... Read more...

The UK in a changing Europe blog

Post-Brexit UK trade policy: still just a wish list

Article by Nikhil Datta and Swati Dhingra It’s no secret that the UK is deeply integrated into the European Union. About half of its trade and investment is with the EU and, as a member of the single ... Read more...

Arabs Today

UAE has developed world?s first `Happiness Policy Manual?

Ohoud bint Khalfan Al Roumi, Minister of State for Happiness and Wellbeing, has affirmed that the UAE’s ‘Happiness Policy Manual’, developed by the National Programme for Happiness and P... Read more...

Caba.org.uk

Happiness depends on mental health, not money, say economists

According to the Origins of Happiness report, eliminating mental health issues such as depression and anxiety would increase happiness by 20%, whereas eliminating poverty would increase happiness by only 5%. I... Read more...

Medicalonline.hu (Hungary)

Gyogyszerek helyett lelki segitseg kellene/Instead of medicines, it should be spiritual help

In Great Britain they have chosen a different path. According to Richard Layard's Health Economist Program, with an estimated 12 million jobs, a system has been developed that provides effective and rapid ... Read more...

Derbund blog

Die dunkle Seite der Tech-Macht /The dark side of tech power

Sie hat zur Folge, dass der Anteil der Arbeitseinkommen am Gesamtprodukt schrumpft und die Ungleichheit zunimmt. Die Grafik unten zeigt für ausgewählte Länder, wie der Anteil der Arbeitseinkomme... Read more...

Chicago Booth Review blog

The market power of `superstar? companies is growing

The standard metric of monopoly power is the concentration ratio, or the share of the market accruing to the top four (or 20) firms. In a 2017 paper, MIT’s David Autor, Christina Patterson, and John Van ... Read more...

Guardian

Universities deplore `McCarthyism? as MP demands list of tutors lecturing on Brexit

Tory whip writes to every vice-chancellor to ask for syllabus and any online material Academics are accusing a Tory MP and government whip of “McCarthyite” behaviour, after he wrote to all unive... Read more...

Economic Policy Volume 32, Issue 92, October 2017

Articles Editors? Choice

Who voted for Brexit? A comprehensive district-level analysis – Sascha O Becker, Thiemo Fetzer and Dennis Novy ‘On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union (EU). We... Read more...

MIT Sloan Experts

Good managers, not machines, drive productivity growth - John Van Reenen

 Article by John Van Reenen. When people discuss what drives long-run productivity, they usually focus on technical change. But productivity is about more than robots, new drugs and self-driving vehicles.... Read more...

Spectator ? Coffee House blog

The embarrassing role of economists on Brexit

A major impediment to clarity has been the weight of advice from what Michael Gove calls ‘organisations with acronyms’ suggesting that  a ‘no deal’ on trade will greatly damage the... Read more...

Ted.com

Talks ? Helen Pearson: Lessons from the longest study on human development

Another summary is offered in the introduction to this report Bucking the Trend (Jo Blanden, 2006) "A prime motivation behind the Government’s child poverty reduction strategy is the belief that gro... Read more...

Times Higher Education - THE

Subject cost data add fuel to England's variable fees debate

Gill Wyness, a senior lecturer in the economics of education at the UCL Institute of Education, said there might be logic in this approach given that universities were arguably being incentivised at the moment... Read more...

Harvard Business Review

The real reason superstar firms are pulling ahead

But why is IT leading to winner-take-all competition? Bessen’s paper can’t answer that, however he raises two possibilities. It could be because “software development typically requires large... Read more...

CEP Engagement

Conservative Party Conference

CAGE/SMF event at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Brexit. Dennis Novy talked about issues related to international trade, in particular the EU Single Market and customs union and potential n... Read more...

BBC Brasil

Why injustice upsets inequality, according to research

A society in which poverty does not exist sounds utopian - this society is equal but unfair, so it risks collapse, argues Nicholas Bloom, a professor of economics at Stanford University. "People do not wo... Read more...

El Diario.es (Spain)

The technology affects employment, but the fault is not (only) Uber or the robots

"There have always been, but the increase in numbers seems to have started about 30 years ago," says MIT researcher John Michael Van Reenen, one of the proponents of this theory and co-author of the ... Read more...

St Louis Post Dispatch

Why the world?s workers are losing to capitalists

Recently, a lot of attention has focused on the idea that monopoly power might be causing the shift. But the famous paper that draws this connection — by David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina... Read more...

Farming UK

Exchange rate and other favourable countries sees UK migrant labour shortage

NFU Scotland warns that this will only "get worse year on year" for Scotland's soft fruit and vegetable sectors. The pre and post Brexit employment needs of Scotland’s fast-growing horticul... Read more...

Jordan Times

The two pillars of French economic reform

Article by Philippe Aghion and Benedicte Berner The French government has just announced the guidelines for a new labour code, its first major reform to boost France’s economy by giving more flexibili... Read more...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

David Brooks: The economy isn?t broken

In a well-functioning economy, workers are rewarded for their productivity. As output, jobs and hours worked rise, so does income. Over the past two years, that seems to be exactly what’s happening. T... Read more...

The Indiana Gazette

In reality the economy isn?t broken

In a well-functioning economy, workers are rewarded for their productivity. As output, jobs and hours worked rise, so does income. Over the past two years, that seems to be exactly what’s happening. T... Read more...

American Enterprise Institute

Around the web: Correcting the economic narrative, Greg Mankiw?s reading list, and more The economy isn?t broken after all

In a well-functioning economy, workers are rewarded for their productivity. As output, jobs and hours worked rise, so does income. Over the past two years, that seems to be exactly what’s happening. The ... Read more...

LBC (Radio)

(1:00:01 pm)

Snippet: down and down and then the NHS within a matter of the housing crisis for napping and all that get blamed on immigrants. Mention of a study done at the London School of Economics looking at the relatio... Read more...

Social Europe

How Bad Will Brexit Really Be For The UK?

The great majority of the economic forecasts have concluded that Brexit will damage the UK economy. In the case of ‘no deal’ between the UK and the EU, the majority view is that the loss of GDP cou... Read more...

Canadian Investment Opportunities & News

B.C.'s new business as usual: political and economic uncertainty

Research shows that policy uncertainty can drive down business investment by six to 10.5 per cent. To see how the election created uncertainty in B.C., the Fraser Institute created a proxy measure using newspa... Read more...

Yahoo! Finance

Leading economists say #135bn hard Brexit boost claim 'defies gravity'

The LSE quartet – professors Thomas Sampson, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and John Van Reenen – do concede that there is, potentially, a very minor boost to going it alone. Their own model... Read more...

What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth blog

Shedding new light on innovation policy

Article by Max Nathan:  ...Our latest case study summarises Innovate UK's programmes of support for microbusinesses and SMEs: mainly grants but also loans, awarded on a competitive basis, either to in... Read more...

Yahoo!Finance

Here's new evidence minimum wage hikes result in workers being replaced by robots

There is new evidence that raising the minimum wage pushes business owners to replace low-skilled workers with automation. And it shows that old, young, female and black low-skilled workers face the highest ... Read more...

Bankier (Poland)

Expert: Britain wants to speed up trade talks with brexitas

Dr Thomas Sampson of the London School of Economics (LSE) said on Tuesday that the publication of UK government plans for a transition period and regulations after the breit suggests that London wants to speed... Read more...

Chicago Booth Review

A global measure of uncertain economic times

Uncertainty about a nation’s economic policies can influence both politics and financial markets, and the effects often spread beyond the country’s borders. Building on his research with Northweste... Read more...

Forsal.Pl (Poland)

What about international trade after brexit? Here are the possibilities and their consequences

The Center for Economic Performance estimated that in the case of such a scenario over the decade, trade would have fallen by 40 percent and average income by 2.6 percent. ... Read more...

Consultancy UK

Real pay growth to stagnate in 2017 and 2018

Private sector workers too have seen a significant drop in real term wages in recent years, with an LSE study estimating an effective 10% decrease since the financial crisis to 2015. ... Read more...

CityMetric

Which British cities will be hit hardest by Brexit?

A lot of my time at work is given over to worrying fitfully about two things. One is cities policy. The other is Brexit. What could be more thrilling, then, than a report which combines those two topics into a ... Read more...

The Press and Journal (Scotland)

`Labour created the welfare state and will always fight to protect it'

Britain’s most successful cities with large high-skilled service sectors will be hit hardest by the expected downturn in trade after the UK leaves the EU. Sadly, that means bad news for Aberdeen. A repor... Read more...

Somerset County Gazette

Taunton Deane economy could take a Brexit hit of 1.2% to 2.3%

BREXIT will damage the economic performance of Taunton Deane, according to new report. The Centre for Economic Performance believes the economy in the district will take a 1.2 per cent hit under a sort Br... Read more...

Heart Berkshire (Radio)

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Snippet: ... Reading has come out third on a list of 10 towns in the UK most likely to be hit hardest by Brexit report of the London School of Economics says Dorsey a fall i... Related publications &lsqu... Read more...

The Pie News

UK Home Secretary calls for report on EU migration

The UK’s Home Secretary Amber Rudd has commissioned a report on the impact Brexit will have on the UK labour market. A key sector for enquiry will be higher education, where 17% of academic staff are EU ... Read more...

The Economist

America's uncompetitive markets harm its economy

New research suggests that too little competition deters investment Concentration may also hurt workers. Recent research by David Autor of MIT and four co-authors finds that “superstar” firms pa... Read more...

Clarin.com

Depression and anxiety, in the sights of an ambitious English project

In 2005, David Clark, a professor of psychology at the University of Oxford, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, came to the conclusion that it made economic sense to provide therapeu... Read more...

The Journal (Newcastle)

Brexit recovery harder for North East ? study

…Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London… Related publications ‘Brexit, Trade and the Economic Impacts on UK Cities’, Naomi Clayton and Hen... Read more...

Get Surrey

How much of Surrey's land is taken up by fairways and putting greens

Woking has the highest density of golf courses of anywhere in the UK at more than 10% According to The Guardian , Surrey has more land for golf courses than homes thanks to planning policies that ensure the... Read more...

Times Educational Supplement - TES

More autonomy turned out to be mere rhetoric

The rise of academies promised more power for schools - but, with government still clinging to the reins, heads haven't been able to raise standards as expected. However, this system may yet deliver - if m... Read more...

Economia

How businesses can seek sustainable growth

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The Herald (Scotland)

Scottish cities to pay highest price for Brexit

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The National

Britain to ask committee to assess impact of migration from EU

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Sputnik News

UK Business Sectors That will suffer the most if EU migration is restricted

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RES (Royal Economic Society) Newsletter

Conference Report 2017 'Divided we fall'

Perhaps the public knew that Brexit would drain their wallets, but voted for it anyway. Sometimes it’s not the economy, stupid. But Simon Wren-Lewis, of Oxford University, rubbished this idea, pointing o... Read more...

The UK in a Changing Europe (Kings College London)

Brexit and the skills challenge

Article by Sandra McNally The UK’s productivity suffered a shock in 2008 from which it has not recovered, and the ‘skills problem’ needs to be addressed. Within the context of a broader in... Read more...

Europeanceo

We need to tear down the silos and rebuild the digital economy

The digital economy is exacerbating the capital-labour disparity in global markets. A new competition authority with global remit is needed to reset the balance And, as the economists David Autor, David Dor... Read more...

Neue Rheinische Zeitung

Dauer-Strohfeuer

Trump and Brexit are rapidly becoming the main threat to the upturn. Once the downturn begins, all fingers will point to them. But the real causes lie somewhere else: Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom points t... Read more...

ItalyEurope24

A new course for economic liberalism

A recent study by Erling Bath, Alex Bryson, James Davis, and Richard Freeman showed that the diffusion of individual pay since the 1970s is associated with pay differences between, not within, companies. The S... Read more...

MarketPlace

Now we can measure economic policy uncertainty

In the world of business and economics, there’s a bit of a fixation on uncertainty. To start, there's the VIX, a measure of investor fear, that tracks expected volatility in the markets. But the... Read more...

Metro

House prices are on the brink of massive collapse

Prof Christian Hilber from the LSE said: ‘If Brexit leads to a recession and/or sluggish growth for extended periods, then an extended and severe downturn is more likely than a short-lived and mild one.&... Read more...

LaPrensa ? Economia

El crecimiento de las empresas superestrellas/the rise of superstar companies In most countries, workers' participation in national income has fallen for about three decades. Why?

Article by John Van Reenen with Christina Patterson Perhaps the cause is the "robbery-Apocalypse Now," that companies are replacing expensive people with cheaper machines.  We suggest another... Read more...

Forbes (Mexico)

La derrota de los peque?os/The defeat of the little ones

In a recent working paper presented by MIT, John Van Reenen and his co-authors document a clear global trend towards the fall in the share of income from Labour in total income. ... Read more...

Time

The continuing urgency of the Grenfell Tower inferno

In the days since the fire, Grenfell Tower has been held up as a tragic symbol of the social ills facing Britain: a detached political class; nearly seven years of a government-led austerity program that has s... Read more...

South China Morning Post

On track: remote monitoring and artificial intelligence ensure more efficient railway systems along belt and road routes

High-speed rail has triggered a wave of innovation , according to a London School of Economics and Political Science discussion paper by Lin Yatang, Qin Yu and Xie Zhuan, which describes a 20 per cent increase... Read more...

The Herald

Herald View: Holyrood's role means hard Brexit is dead and buried

But the greatest potential trouble is on Brexit, with the constitutional uncertainty growing and economists laying out this week just what a hard or chaotic Brexit could mean for the economy: the pound droppin... Read more...

QJE Highly Cited Articles

The Quarterly Journal of Economics received an Impact Factor of 6.662 and a 5-year Impact Factor of 9.681, according to the most recent Journal Citation Reports? (Thomson Reuters).

The Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. The Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations i... Read more...

UniteWorks ? Unite the Union

Unite warns of deepening Tory `wage pain' as average wages continue to fall

Theresa May and the Tories’ ‘wage pain’ is leaving millions of people struggling to make ends meet warned Britain’s largest union, Unite as official figures out today (Wednesday 14 June... Read more...

CityWire

Crazy in ETF love? New study imagines bottling star quality

A new paper – by David Dorn of the University of Zurich, Lawrence Katz of Harvard University, and David Autor, Christina Patterson, and John Van Reenen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology &ndash... Read more...

RT (Russia)

British wages in free fall, only crisis-hit Greece is worse in OECD

According to a London School of Economics (LSE) paper, Brits were the worst off when it came to their real wages, with pay falling by more than five percent between 2007 and 2015. Researchers for the presti... Read more...

Independent

The chart that shows UK workers have had the worst wage performance in the OECD except Greece

The UK has suffered the biggest drop in average real wages of any OECD country except depression-wracked Greece, according to a pre-general election analysis published by the London School of Economi... Read more...

Vox

The economic consequences of family policies

Article by Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo. Family-oriented policies – such as parental leave, childcare support, and flexible work arrangements – are in place in all high-income countries,... Read more...

ccrmagazine.com

Centre for Economic Performance report on the UK's new industrial strategy

All of the UK’s main political parties now highlight the importance of an ‘industrial strategy’ with the aim of improving economic growth and achieving more balance in how its gains are distr... Read more...

Market News

UK reality check: BOE wage growth forecasts implausible: CEP

Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee claims that nominal wage growth will return close to 4% by 2019 are "rather implausible and over-optimistic", according to two respected academics at the Cen... Read more...

Public Finance

NHS and social care staffing crisis `not addressed in general election manifestos'

The parties all recognised funding shortfalls, rising costs, demographic pressures, increased expectations, and changes in health technology and medical practice, the London School of Economics Centre for Econ... Read more...

Gulf News Analysis

Superstar multinationals need to be put on a tight leash

As the economists David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson, and John Van Reenen show, the US industries with the fastest-growing market concentration have also seen the largest drop in la... Read more...

ccrmagazine.com

Centre for Economic Performance report on UK pay and living standards

Higher price inflation as a result of sterling’s depreciation following the vote to leave the EU, coupled with nominal wage growth stuck at a norm of 2% a year, means that once again the UK faces falling... Read more...

Jordan Times

Restoring digital economy competition

Today’s superstar companies owe their privileged position to digital technology’s network effects, whereby a product becomes even more desirable as more people use it. And although software plat... Read more...

Business Mirror

The rise of superstar firms

Article by John Van Reenen and Christina Patterson In most countries, labor’s share of the national income has declined for about three decades. Why? Maybe the cause is “Robocalypse Now”&m... Read more...

Arab News

Restoring competition in the digital economy

As the economists David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen show, the US industries with the fastest-growing market concentration have also seen the largest drop in lab... Read more...

The Times

A squeeze on wages will set the tone for whoever wins on June 8

There are three reasons to be sceptical about the Bank’s forecasts for the growth in earnings in future years, and hence the recovery in real wages. One is that unemployment may not stay as low as 4.5 pe... Read more...

MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

The labor impact of superstar firms

New research shows that the rise of ever-larger firms means that workers are getting a shrinking slice of a slower-growing economic pie. Increasingly, labor accounts for less and less of GDP in most co... Read more...

Harvard Business Review

Research: The rise of superstar firms has been better for investors than for employees

Article by John Van Reenen and Christina Patterson In America, labor’s share has been on the decline for about three decades, and it has accelerated since the turn of the century. The fall has al... Read more...

Bloomberg View

Good managers, not machines, drive productivity growth

Article by John Van Reenen. Managers are more frequently the butt of jokes from TV shows like “The Office” to “Horrible Bosses,” than seen as drivers of growth. But maybe things ar... Read more...

The Conversation

Fact Check: Is education spending at the highest level on record?

Article by Sandra McNally and Stephen Gorard. The level of funding going into schools is at record levels. Prime Minister Theresa May in an interview with Andrew Marr on the BBC on April 30, 2017. As she hit t... Read more...

MIT Sloan Management Review

The importance of structured management practices

Article by Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John Van Reenen Our analysis of the Census data, conducted with Lucia Foster and Ron Jarmin of the U.S. Census Bureau and... Read more...

Wall Street Italia

Perche serve una nuova economia/Why we need a new economics

… Labor economists of the United Kingdom, as well as co-author of both Richard Layard that Steven Nickell, we need the introduction of the NAIRU in 1986. Related publications Combatting Unemployme... Read more...

Journal of Economic Geography

CEP Journal Articles

‘Agglomeration externalities and urban growth controls’, Wouter Vermeulen, Journal of Economic Geography Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2017 http://bit.ly/2n719tK Related publications Agglome... Read more...

The New York Times

`Superstar firms' may have shrunk workers' share of income

From manufacturing to retailing, giant companies have managed to gobble up a larger and larger share of the market. While such concentration has resulted in enormous profits for investors and owners of behemot... Read more...

The Wall Street Journal

Three ways to value gold. Three conclusions

Then three economics and finance professors—Scott Baker of Northwestern University, Nick Bloom of Stanford University and Steven Davis of the University of Chicago—created a series of Economic Poli... Read more...

Dien dan (Vietnam)

The index of real economic policy of China in record level 672.82 points

Index of uncertainty in the economic policy of China and Hong Kong (China-Hong Kong Economic Policy Uncertainty Index-CHEPUI) are at record levels 672.82 points after soaring up fivefold higher than the averag... Read more...

Bloomberg

China economic policy has never been more uncertain. Sort of.

Economic policy is always challenging to decipher in China, where Communist Party leaders steer one of the world's most opaque central banks. Indeed, one measure of uncertainty has never been hig... Read more...

Huffington Post Deutschland

US-Top-and#336;konom erwartet unter Trump 'wirtschaftliche Blute ungekannten Ausma?es'/US top economist expected to trump 'economic boom of unprecedented proportions

Von anderen Star-Ökonomen waren eher pessimistische Stimmen zur Wirtschaftsentwicklung unter Trump zu hören. So sagt Stanford-Ökonom Nicholas Bloom, ... Related publications 'Meas... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Work improves general happiness, but are you happy while you work?

By checking on people at random times of the day via an app, Alex Bryson and George MacKerron uncover the misery of work. Related links Alex Bryson, CEP Alumni, Labour Markets Programme. ... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

The Today Programme

Dr Hilary Steedman discusses IFS report criticising huge investment into apprenticeships. 0725 Is the way in which the Government will fund new apprenticeships a monumental waste of money? Dr Hilary S... Read more...

Personnel Today

Apprenticeship levy and targets risk being poor value for money

Dr Hilary Steedman, senior research fellow at The London School of Economics, speaking on the BBC’s Today programme, said: “I think the IFS has really overstated their case here. We have a really s... Read more...

New Statesman

How the government's industrial strategy could steal your job

Britain’s manufacturing heritage is told through faded photos of workers on assembly lines, or operating basic tools. But that was the 1970s, and in the 21st century, a factory has a lot more robots. Usi... Read more...

Carnetericpeyre.blog (France)

Carnetsecret: Bonne synthese d'Ariane Chemin sur le revenu universel ou l'on constate qu'il ne s'agit pas d'une question economique mais bien de societe

A multitude of studies weaken the prophecy of universal income advocates: that of researchers Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels (2015) , who found, by analyzing seventeen countries over fifteen years, the robot ha... Read more...

Bloomberg view

Why the U.S. has a monopoly on jobless recoveries

In a new paper called “Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries?,” economists George Graetz and Guy Michaels looked at 17 different developed countries, from 1970 through 2011. The t... Read more...

Bloomberg News

Why the U.S. has a monopoly on jobless recoveries

Most rich countries hire back workers after a recession. The U.S. replaces them with machines Economists have recently discovered that it’s middle-skill routine jobs -- think of cashiers, telemarketer... Read more...

Middlesex Minds (Middlesex University London)

Is a robot after your job?

Evidence published in 2015 by Michaels and Graetz from a dataset of companies in 17 countries gathered between 1993 and 2007, suggests that while productivity increases with robotic innovation and some semi-sk... Read more...

Forbes

We won't even know if a robot takes your job

Using national level data on worldwide robot shipments across 17 countries, George Graetz and Guy Michaels show that robots may have been responsible for about a tenth of the increases in those countries&rsquo... Read more...

Aftenposten (Norway)

Professor: 'Det er rett og slett ikke tilfelle at innvandrere tar jobbene fra dem som allerede bor i landet'

"It is simply not the case that immigrants are taking jobs from those who already live in the country" Professor Alan Manning denied that immigrants take jobs.  If it were so, wouldn't Ca... Read more...

Financial Times

The cost of taking mental health seriously

After decades languishing as one of the most underfunded medical problems, mental illness began to receive some of the attention it deserved under Tony Blair’s government. In 2006, a London School of Eco... Read more...

Foreign Affairs (New Zealand)

Press Release: Sir David Metcalf named as the first Director of Labour Market Enforcement

Sir David Metcalf has today (5 January 2017) been named as the first Director of Labour Market Enforcement to oversee a government crackdown on exploitation in the workplace. ... Read more...

The Times

It is the sport of kings and, apparently, tsars as well...

The minimum wage tsar is more interesting than the government would have you believe. The biography, as released by Whitehall, of Professor Sir David Metcalf, who has been appointed as the first director of la... Read more...

Home Office - gov.uk

Sir David Metcalf named as the first Director of Labour Market Enforcement - press release

Sir David, who was chairman of the Migration Advisory Committee until August 2016, will set the strategic priorities for the: Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority Employment Agency Standards Inspecto... Read more...

The Times

Employers face jail over minimum wage

Employers who deny workers the minimum wage could face two years in jail under plans to accelerate a crackdown on unscrupulous companies and gangmasters.  The government will appoint a “labour marke... Read more...

ElEspanol

EEUU asume la destruccion de millones de empleos por el 'boom' de los robots

So, the White House cites a study of 2015 by George Graetz and Guy Michaels made in 17 countries, that concluded that the robots helped to increase the wealth of those countries by 0.4% between 1993 ... Read more...

Guardian

Happiness study `lets austerity off the hook', psychologists claim

LSE study led by Labour peer found that failed relationships and physical and mental illness were bigger causes of misery than poverty Clinical psychologists have raised the alarm over a controversial piece... Read more...

LSE USA Politics and Policy blog

More public holidays would boost national wellbeing

A a survey of leading wellbeing researchers from around the world finds that more public holidays would be better for everyone, writes Paul Frijters. The World Wellbeing Panel on wellbeing and public holida... Read more...

Investor view.dk (Denmark)

Robot teknologi kan fa hjaelp I 2017

We have seen signs that the companies which manage to exploit the robots and the Internet of Things (IoT) in their production machinery can compete with factories in the distant economies. This trend is furthe... Read more...

The Walton Sun (Florida, USA)

Happiness may help fight poverty

Too often in our business we focus primarily on finances. Of course, that is what financial professionals do, but we could be neglecting an important, maybe more important, piece of the pie. The recent London ... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

More public holidays would boost national wellbeing

This is the consensus finding of a survey of leading wellbeing researchers from around the world, writes Paul Frijters. Related articles:  World Wellbeing Panel Survey: ‘Wellbeing and Public Holi... Read more...

Sport (English version)

Ciudadanos harsh attack on Messi which forgot about Ronaldo

An economist claimed Messi would be in prison now in the United States Economist Luis Garicano was recently elected by the Ciudadanos to take over one of the vice presidencies of the Party of the Alliance o... Read more...

Emotions blog

New podcast: the politics of wellbeing with Richard Layard and William Davies

Here’s the second episode of our podcast, with Jules Evans interviewing Richard Layard,  former government ‘happiness tsar’ and the creator of the NHS talking therapies service; and Wili... Read more...

Northamptonshire Telegraph

Doubling someone's salary has minimal impact on happiness

While increasing salary had a minimal effect on people’s wellbeing, unemployment reduces the happiness of each unemployed person by about 0.7 points on average. ... Read more...

How we get to next - blog by Matt Locke

Young inventors need role models, not tax breaks

A conversation with MIT’s John Van Reenen When we talk about innovators, we normally talk about how someone becomes one—not when. We talk about the success or failure of their experiments, produ... Read more...

University Herald

Science-backed proof that money can't buy happiness

What makes humans happy? What makes you happy? Is it the material and tangible things? Or is it experiences or people? Happiness can be measured and defined in so many ways but according to a study by a t... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

The big factors affecting life satisfaction are all non-economic

What distinguishes ‘Les Misérables’ from the rest is neither poverty nor unemployment, but mental illness, write Andrew Clark, Sarah Fleche, Richard Layard, Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee and G... Read more...

Vox

Origins of happiness: Evidence and policy implications

Understanding the key determinants of people’s life satisfaction will suggest policies for how best to reduce misery and promote wellbeing. This column discusses evidence from survey data on Australia, B... Read more...

BBC News

Mental health and relationships 'key to happiness'

Good mental health and having a partner make people happier than doubling their income, a new study has found. The research by the London School of Economics looked at responses from 200,000 people on how diff... Read more...

Sensafiltro

L'Industria 4.0 e il futuro del Made in Italy

In fact the industry 4.0 represents a great opportunity for our manufacturing and for once never catches us completely off-guard. According to a recent study carried out by economists George Graetz and Guy Mic... Read more...

El Esquiu

Lecturas para Macri/Readings for Macri

The book flies over aspects featured of the cases of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland, countries that are located well above in rankings that measure development, welfare or happiness. The report on 2016 wo... Read more...

Countercurrents.org

Can a President Trump follow his signature agenda?

The commonly held belief that immigrants hold down the wages of native workers is also doubtful. The economic literature is mixed although a paper by Marco Manacorda, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth of the... Read more...

Telesur TV

Will President Trump's hands be tied?

The commonly held belief that immigrants hold down the wages of native workers is also doubtful.  The economic literature is mixed although a paper by Marco Manacorda, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth ... Read more...

CKWX News (Vancouver, Canada)

News 1130

Dr Swati Dhingra interviewed, talking about the potential international implications of a Trump White House as well as initial reactions from (Brexit) UK. The interview was broadcast by CKWX News on the Ne... Read more...

Daily Journal (Illinois, USA)

Robert Samuelson: Trump's mission impossible?

… "Uncertainty is a real risk," said economist Michael Strain, of the American Enterprise, a right-of-center think tank. "I'd be reluctant to start a business now, and if I had one, I... Read more...

Plastics Today

Productivity numbers send mixed - maybe wrong - signals

Given the increased usage of robotics and other automation, how will that impact the productivity numbers? In July of 2015, Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels published a paper, “Estimating the Impact of Robo... Read more...

Yale Global Online

Four fallacies about trade and globalization

Article sources a figure from 'Guessing game: Actual job losses due to robots may not be as bad as anticipated for most countries' (Source: George Graetz and Guy Michaels, “Robots at Work”.... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Four principles for the UK's Brexit trade negotiations

The meaning of Brexit is yet to become clear. But if Brexit means leaving the customs union of the European Union, Thomas Sampson looks at what it might meant for the UK to pursue its own trade policy for the first time ... Read more...

The Conversation

A hard Brexit and reduced migration won't benefit UK workers

Article by Barbara Petrongolo In the wake of Britains vote to leave the EU, the big debate has switched to what relationship the two should have post-Brexit. Top of the agenda is access to the single market and freedom ... Read more...

Times Higher Education

Larger bursaries 'boost students' chances of getting good degree

Study of 36,000 undergraduates identifies positive relationship between financial aid, retention and attainment The larger the bursary a student receives, the more likely they are to get a good degree, according to a ma... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

New immigrants don't affect the job prospects of UK-born workers

New arrivals flock to the occupations and industries in which existing immigrants work, argues Barbara Petrongolo. Most economists would argue that there is not much of a trade-off involved in this choice. Th... Read more...

Migration Matters

Do migrants take away jobs?

Part 2/6 from six impossible ideas (after Brexit) Many people think that migrants take jobs away from citizens, reduce wages or both. But you may also have heard the argument that immigrants benefit the economy because ... Read more...

WallStreetcn.com (China)

'The news quiz' United Kingdom 'hard back in Europe,' you need to know

CEP research article previously published by Vox referenced in article published in PRC: [8]Swati Dhingra, Thomas Sampson: UK-EU relations after Brexit: What is best for the UK economy? This article was published onlin... Read more...

Yahoo! Canada Finance

Why income inequality among white collar workers is growing

This article was based on the research of Luis Garicano and Thomas N. Hubbard. Rising income inequality in the U.S. may seem like a 21st-century preoccupation, as workers agitate to ''occupy Wall Street'' from the left ... Read more...

BBC Three Counties Radio

Jasmeen Khan

Caller mentions research by the Centre for Economic Performance at around 01:11:05 Caller: ... not in many cases a cynical attempt on the part of employers to simply cheat workers by paying them the lowest wages that th... Read more...

Financial Times

Free Lunch: My country right or wrong

Many government ministers have suggested that immigration is an obstacle to natives getting jobs. Jonathan Wadsworth takes up the home secretary's challenge to talk about immigration and how it may affect young people's ... Read more...

The Independent

Jeremy Corbyn's reaction to what Theresa May said about immigration was the last thing Labour needed

[Jeremy] Corbyn too is proposing a solution ''which would reduce numbers'', despite the fact in its 2015 General Election briefing, the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics observed: ''There ... Read more...

The Independent

`Return of the nasty party' claims over Tory crackdown on foreign workers

In a briefing sent afterwards, it was made clear that other measures to be considered would be, ''whether employers should have to set out the steps they have taken to foster a pool of local candidates, set out the impac... Read more...

Financial Times

Proposals on lines of foreign workers cause outcry

Academic studies also find little link between migration and unemployment. Economists from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics say that when they look at the areas with the largest incre... Read more...

The Telegraph (online)

On immigration and jobs, Theresa May employs the post-truth politics of Donald Trump

I am one of those people who, as she anticipated, have a bit of a problem with something Mrs May said about immigration: If you're one of those people who lost their job, who stayed in work but on reduced ... Read more...

The Financial Times

Proposals on lists of foreign workers cause outcry

Economists see little to link migration and unemployment There is little evidence that migrants have displaced British workers from jobs. Indeed, the employment rate for UK nationals is now 74.6 per cent, the highest si... Read more...

The Independent

What do immigrants do for the UK economy? Nine charts Conservative ministers seem to be ignoring

Article includes nine charts to help provide an answer to 'And what is the real impact of immigrants on the rest of the workforce and the wider economy?' including: Jonathan Wadsworth a researcher at the London School ... Read more...

The Independent

Immigrants who 'consume' Britain's wealth are not welcome, Liam Fox says

A study by the London School of Economics published earlier this year found that EU immigration had no negative impact on British wages, jobs or public services. That research echoed the findings of countless other studi... Read more...

The Economist

Free Trade: Coming and going

Truth and myth about the effects of openness to trade In other rich countries, regions or industries with heavy exposure to Chinese imports also suffered material losses in factory jobs. A study of Spain's jobs market b... Read more...

indy100 Independent

Jeremy Corbyn is absolutely right about immigration. Here's why

3. Immigrants have not depressed the wages of UK workers A report by the London School of Economics this year showed that there was no correlation between an increase in immigration and the recent dip in wages. While ... Read more...

Robohub.org

The robot economy: interview with Alan Manning

In today's interview, we sat down with Alan Manning, Professor of Labour Economics at the London School of Economics. He is a leading author in his field, particularly in understanding the imperfections of labour markets... Read more...

Vox

Distinctively different: a new approach to valuing architectural amenities

Article by Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Nancy Holman Good architectural design is a public good, but economists and policymakers lack robust evidence on the impact of well designed architecture on location value when planning s... Read more...

The Economist

Little Londons

However, land regulation may play a bigger role. According to a recent paper by Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen of the London School of Economics, alongside Greater London, scarcity of open, developable land is gre... Read more...

The Conversation

How universities boost economic growth

Article by Anna Valero In 1900, just 1% of young people in the world were enrolled at university. Over the course of the next century this exploded to 20%, as recognition of the value of such an education became widespr... Read more...

Financial Times

May goes into battle for selective education

Prime minister champions grammar system but critics argue reforms will damage social mobility But critics were quick to dismiss the reforms. Professor Sandra McNally, director of education and skills at the London Schoo... Read more...

This is Money

Tax-free childcare is on the way - but will your family be any better off and how will it compare to childcare vouchers?

The average cost of full-time childcare across the UK for a child under the age of two is £217.57 a week. Part-time care (25 hours, as opposed to the full 50) costs £116.77 a week. Assuming both parents work ... Read more...

ToVima Magazine (Greece)

The Essence of Happiness

Returning to the interim UN report for happiness, you can find an interesting proposal in many respects. Found in Chapter 3, which shall be signed by the head of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School o... Read more...

PropertyWire

Researcher blames government not rich foreign buyers for UK housing crisis

Decades of planning policies that constrain the supply of houses and land and turn them into something like gold or artworks is to blame for the current housing crisis in the UK rather than foreign buyers, according to a... Read more...

Viet Q.vn (Vietnam)

Tang nang suat lao dong len 800% voi robot naha kho cua My

The likely Locus of search robots and packaging of 25 thousand square meter warehouse helps to increase the productivity of the warehouse up to 800 percent. A previous study of Georg Graetz scientists and Guy Michaels (... Read more...

CIPD

Government urges employers to make breastfeeding at work easier

New initiatives planned to end 'unacceptable and unlawful' discrimination against working women Employers are being told to do more to help mothers breastfeed their babies at work, as part of the government's latest i... Read more...

Pop Off Quotidiano.it (Italy)

Il grande bluff della robotizzazione

Davvero i robot ci ruberanno il lavoro? A che cosa serve davvero l'automazione? Tutte queste predicazioni hanno in comune di invitare i popoli ad abbandonare qualsiasi progetto di poter in qualche modo essere protagonist... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

Paul Cheshire interview

Paul Cheshire argues that golf courses capitalise on green belt planning laws which keep down land prices and contribute to a housing shortage. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on August 10, 2016 Link to th... Read more...

CIPD

Most mothers 'forced to give up work after second child'

Working mothers in low-skilled jobs are being forced to either considerably reduce their hours or give up work altogether after having a second child, according to a wide-ranging study that suggests lack of access to chi... Read more...

The Daily Mail online

Having a second baby forces women into poverty: Childcare costs see mothers in low-paid jobs give up work to look after children instead

The addition of a second child can put families under serious financial strain - and in the case of women on the lowest incomes - convince them to give up work altogether in the face of rising childcare costs, a new st... Read more...

Guardian

For UK women in low-paid jobs, a second child is a mixed blessing

A new study finds that, while the addition of a second child has little effect on the working hours of mothers in skilled jobs, it has a substantial and negative effect on low-skilled women who are forced to reduce their... Read more...

Vox

CEO pay and the rise of relative performance contracts: the role of governance

Article by Brian Bell and John Van Reenen Lacklustre growth seems to be the new normal almost everywhere in the world except for one area - CEO pay. This column uses data on UK publicly listed firms to examine whether ... Read more...

Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) blog

Reflections on the employer support for higher level skills report

Article by John Denham For the past 20 years and longer, Ministers of all parties have wanted to see more employers support employees and apprentices to gain higher levels skills and higher education. With strong bi-par... Read more...

SchoolDash blog

Poverty of opportunity?

Education is not just a vital cornerstone of our culture and economy, it is also potentially one of the great social levellers. However rich or poor our parents, however supportive or dysfunctional our families, a high-q... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

The aftermath of the Brexit vote - the verdict from a derided expert

John Van Reenen was disappointed but not surprised by the UK's vote to Leave the EU. Whilst his own research predicts serious economic and political damage in the case of Brexit, he thought a Leave vote was a real possib... Read more...

Vox

A new eBook: Brexit beckons

The 23 June 2016 Brexit vote saw British voters reject membership in the European Union. This column introduces a new VoxEU eBook containing 19 essays written by leading economists on a wide array of topics and from a br... Read more...

La Tribune

Le poids des emotions dans l'economie

What is contraction that leads to uncertainty, or the opposite? Last year, as part of a working paper, the economists Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven J. Davis built a rate of economic uncertainty (UPR, Economi... Read more...

The Independent

European migrants are not just paying their way, they're paying our way too

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...

National Governors' Association

Research Matters - Are academies better? National Governors' Association

This finding is mirrored at least in part by a study of sponsored academies established under the previous Labour government, conducted by the London School of Economics, which argues that the impact of conversion should... Read more...

Les affaires

Inegalites: peu a voir avec le sexe, l'ethnie ou l'education

And if income inequality were not related to our kind, our ethnicity or our level of education, but rather to our workplace? Some employers pay better than others. And the gap between those who pay well and those who pay... Read more...

Spiked online

Cameron's legacy? The reign of soft paternalism

... Indeed, the ideological common ground of the political class has perhaps been nowhere more apparent than in the transformation of wellbeing or happiness from being a free individua'ls pursuit into the object of gover... Read more...

Education Policy Institute

Reflections on 'Academies: 15 Years On' Conference

Yesterday the Education Policy Institute, in partnership with the Sutton Trust, hosted the 'Academies: 15 years on summit'. This was an opportunity for researchers, policy makers and system leaders to come together and c... Read more...

The Conversation

If A-Levels aren't for you, choices at age 16 could now get a whole lot simpler

Article by Sandra McNally, Director of the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER), LSE and Head of Education and Skills Programme, CEP The incoming British prime minister Theresa May has outlined a vision of a ... Read more...

Schools Week

Experts News - Results are in: Academy status works for the best and worst schools, but that's about it

After years of debate over the effectiveness of academy status, the Education Policy Institute has now released data which it says shows the causal impact of academy status on school performance. Editor Laura McInerney e... Read more...

The Independent

'No evidence' academy status improves grades at good or satisfactory schools

New research has found ''no evidence'' that academy status leads to better grades for pupils at schools rated good or satisfactory. The study, by the London School of Economics and the Education Policy Institute (EPI)... Read more...

Newsweek - Europe

Brexit: The characteristics of areas that voted leave in EU Referendum

Article by Monica Langella and Alan Manning This article reports the result of an exercise in which the vote share for Leave in the 380 areas of England, Wales and Scotland are regressed on a variety of area characteris... Read more...

Kellog Insight

Why income inequality among white collar workers is growing

Rising income inequality in the U.S. may seem like a 21st-century preoccupation, as workers agitate to ''occupy Wall Street'' from the left and to ''make America great again'' from the right. But the wage gap separating ... Read more...

CMI (Chartered Management Institute)

Apprenticeships: The industrious revolution

A new breed of apprenticeship is offering employers a way to accelerate and keep top talent Petra Wilton, CMI's director of strategy and external affairs, says the degree apprenticeships will help to meet expected deman... Read more...

The Economist

What happens to EU migrants in Britain

''IMMIGRATION, immigration, immigration'', shouted a headline in the Sun, a right-wing tabloid newspaper, the week that Britain voted to leave the European Union. It followed weeks of campaigning from the Leave side assu... Read more...

Politico

Brexit Corner - Three days to go

Today Morning Trade talks Brexit and the future of U.K. trade policy with Swati Dhingra, a lecturer in economics at the London School of Economics and a member of the trade research program of the Institutions's Center f... Read more...

World Economic Forum

What's the real impact on economies of the minimum wage?

Economists care a great deal about the minimum wage because it is a policy prescription that increasingly affects a large portion of the workforce and because it is a clear case of government intervention, imposing a flo... Read more...

Stuff.co.nz (New Zealand)

Business Day - Janine Starks: The rise of the kipper children, sucking your wallet dry

In keeping with the fishy origins, it seems "kippers" are on the rise. Kippers? Yes, you heard it correctly. Some wag has come up with Kids In Parents Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings. It's eve... Read more...

Times Educational Supplement (TES)

'Phonics, decoding and whole-word recognition are a waste of time unless you then develop children as real readers'

Learning to decipher the squiggles on the page well enough to pass the key stage 1 Sats does not make you a reader, says author Susan Elkin Teaching reading in itself is pointless. All the phonics, decoding skills ... Read more...

familygolive.com

Phonics not necessarily the best way to teach reading, says study

Although phonics - breaking words down into their constituent parts - has been one of the main ways in which parents and teachers teach children to read for many years, new research from the London School of Economics ... Read more...

The Economist

The grip tightens

There is enough green-belt land in Greater London to build 1.6m houses at average densities, says Paul Cheshire of the London School of Economics (LSE) - about 30 times the number of new houses London needs a year. But o... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

Phonics is fair to all

SIR - I noted with interest the research from the London School of Economics into the use of synthetic phonics in schools. Phonics is a highly effective method of helping children who are behind with reading to catch... Read more...

BBC Radio Ulster

Evening Extra

Sandra McNally interviewed for the drivetime show, discussing recently published research on teaching reading with 'synthetic phonics'. This interview was broadcast by BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme on April... Read more...

Schools Week

'Inexpensive' phonics trial improves disadvantaged pupils' literacy

An ''inexpensive trial'' policy improved all pupils' literacy in the early years and had long-term effects on children who struggle with reading, a major new study has found. The ''teaching to teach'' literacy study, whi... Read more...

Johns Hopkins University School of Education

Best evidence in brief: the long-term impact of phonics instruction

Welcome to the latest issue of Best Evidence in Brief, brought to you by the Johns Hopkins School of Education's Center for Research and Reform in Education and the Institute for Effective Education at The University of ... Read more...

Capita

Synthetic phonics can improve reading skills, study claims

Using synthetic phonics to teach children how to read can have considerable long-term benefits for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and those who do not have English as a first language, according to a new study by ... Read more...

The Economist

London's property woes are getting worse

Poor land-use regulation is the main reason for Londons crazy prices. Two problems stand out. ... There is enough green-belt land in Greater London to build 1.6m houses at average densities, says Paul Cheshire of the Lo... Read more...

The Daily Mail

Teaching children to read using phonics has 'significant benefits' in helping those from disadvantaged backgrounds or who have English as a second language

An assessment of more than 270,000 children by LSE's Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) discovered that those who were learning phonetically had developed far better by age seven than those using traditional methods. ... Read more...

Times Higher Education

Cambridge college to fund disadvantaged students' living costs

Gill Wyness, lecturer in the economics of education at the UCL Institute of Education, said that St John's students would welcome the funding but warned that a move towards support coming from universities rather than th... Read more...

New Geography

LSE/Netherlands research documents price effects of tight housing regulation

New research by London school of economics Professor Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis provides strength and evidence of the connection between high housing pr... Read more...

Vox

Regulation is to blame for England's surging house prices

It costs a relatively large amount of money to buy a house in the UK - something readers from the UK will almost certainly agree with. But economists differ over why this is. This column argues that strict planning regul... Read more...

Mail online

The 'neglect' of Britain's young middle achievers: Government accused of ignoring needs of those who don't go to university

A generation of young, 'middle achievers' are being left behind by the Government because they do not go to university, a damning report has claimed. Most youngsters - 53% - do not go on to university or do A levels, yet... Read more...

www.parliament.uk

Governments have failed a generation of young people, say Lords

53% of young people do not follow the 'traditional' academic route into work. This majority of young people are significantly overlooked in their transition for work by the education system and the focus on apprenticeshi... Read more...

VOX

Effectiveness of place-based policies: UK evidence

Areas experiencing poor economic performance are often targeted by governments with programmes aimed at improving employment. However, there are concerns that any increases in employment come at the cost of reduced emplo... Read more...

Financial Times

World watches Britain's 'living wage' experiment

''My view of the history of minimum wages is that we've always been surprised about how you seem to be able to push them up without harming job prospects,'' says Alan Manning, a professor at the London School of Economic... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

The more universities in a country, the faster its economic growth

If the UK added 1 university to each region, national income would grow 0.7%, write Anna Valaero and John Van Reenen. This article was published by the LSE Business Review blog on March 23, 2016 Link to article here ... Read more...

BBC News

EU Referendum - Reality check: would Brexit cost every household #850?

The UK leaving the European Union would knock £850 off the average UK household's income, according to a report from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics. And that's its concl... Read more...

CityMetric

Why are so many people still living on flood plains?

Article by Guy Michaels Over the last 30 years, floods have killed more than 500,000 people globally, and displaced about 650m more. In a recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Performance, we examined why so... Read more...

MBN - Market Business News

Danes happiest on Earth Britons a bit miserable Americans in between

The Danes are the happiest people on Earth, followed by the Swiss, while Britons are comparatively miserable among the rich nations, but happier than the French and Italians. The only European countries happier than the ... Read more...

Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

CEP Special Reports

The SDSN is pleased to present the 2016 World Happiness Report in two volumes - the 2016 Update and the Special Rome Edition, including an update on national rankings and new analyses. A key focus this year is on the in... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Budget 2016: highly questionable whether the academisation of all schools is good policy

All schools will become academies, announced George Osborne in his 2016 Budget speech. But the impact of such mass rollout on students' performance is uncertain, explain Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin. This article was... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Budget 2016: Osborne rolls with the blows, but the politics tramples good economics

John Van Reenen, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance, gives his reaction to the 2016 Budget. The austerity approach continues, despite it having little economic sense. Fuel duty is frozen as a sweetener to hi... Read more...

MIT News

Power play: study shows how more RandD funding can accelerate the world energy revolution

Scholars who have read the paper say it makes a valuable contribution to the field. The model ''is stylized but rich enough, I think, to capture some of the main features of the sector,'' explains John Van Reenan, an eco... Read more...

les affaires

Comment diminuer les risques de depression durant votre retraite?

How to reduce the risk of depression during your retirement? The good news of the day, is that I put a hand on a study that deals with precisely this sensitive topic. Entitled Retirement blues, it is written by Gabriel ... Read more...

Sky News

News

Mention of 2014 CEP research on immigration and the labour market. The programme was broadcast by Sky News on March 11, 2016 Link to broadcast here Related Publications Immigration, the European Union and the UK La... Read more...

Epoch Times

Why are so many people still living in flood-prone cities?

Article by Guy Michaels Over the last 30 years, floods have killed more than 500,000 people globally, and displaced about 650 million more. In a recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Performance, we examined... Read more...

Nigeria News Shafaqna

World: CEP Discussion Paper No 1398, December 2015: Flooded Cities

Source: London School of Economics and Political Science Country: World Abstract Does economic activity relocate away from areas that are at high risk of recurring shocks? We examine this question in the context of floo... Read more...

CEP State of Working Britain blog

SWOB 6: Record employment in the UK? Well yes but....

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...

BBC South East

Inside Out

Paul Cheshire is interviewed about building on the green belt in the South East. The interview was broadcast by BBC South East on the Inside Out programme on February 29, 2016 Link to recorded interview here Related... Read more...

The Times of India

UK migration: six myths about immigration debunked as latest figures show fall in non-EU arrivals

A study by University College London estimated that migrants coming to the UK since 2000 have been 43 per cent less likely to claim benefits or tax credits compared to the British-born workforce. ''Immigrants, especially... Read more...

The Manufacturer

Automation and Robotics: reach out and touch the future

In the period 1993-2007, manufacturing employment in this country fell by around 55%, while the use of robots rose by around 80%. By contrast, Germany’s deployment of robots rose by around 165% and its m... Read more...

The Observer

Why it really does pay to get a good degree: you earn more

The study, Graduate Returns, Degree Class Premia and Higher Education Expansion in the UK, published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, finds that, five years after university, grad... Read more...

The State of Working Britain - blog

Are immigrants taking all the new jobs?

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...

The Guardian

Bank's forecasts will be vindicated, like stopped clock is right twice a day

[David] Blanchflower and [Stephen] Machin argue labour market must tighten further before pay growth picks up, something Bank of England consistently fails to acknowledge. This article was published by The Guardian on F... Read more...

Parliamentary Business: Publications and Records

The Government's productivity plan

CEP's Anna Valero written evidence for the Government's Productivity Plan Inquiry contributed to the final report. The Government's heralded 'Productivity Plan' lacks clear, measurable objectives and largely amounts to ... Read more...

The State of Working Britain - blog

Are we there yet? Full employment in the UK

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...

Sky News Tonight

Dr Thomas Sampson from the Centre for Economic Performance says the EU accounts for about half of all UK trade

Dr Thomas Sampson from the Centre for Economic Performance says the EU accounts for about half of all UK trade. This interview was broadcast by Sky News Tonight on January 25, 2016 Link to interview here Related pub... Read more...

Politico

Markets to policymakers: Do something!

Tumbling global markets are issuing a cry for help to policymakers of all stripes: Do something. As investors, traders and pundits scramble to understand the reasons for the terrible start to 2016, more and more are look... Read more...

Modern Healthcare

Commentary: 'The Price Ain't Right' ain't right

It's not every day that an unpublished academic study rates a front-page story in the New York Times, let alone an additional continuation page replete with graphics, but that was the treatment accorded to the study titl... Read more...

Guardian

Corrections and clarifications

A report (Pay growth predicted to stall at 2% as number of skilled workers rises, 30 December, page 20) said that over the past year almost three-quarters of new jobs created went to non-UK nationals, according to offici... Read more...

The Grocer

Sunday trading: what's the case for longer hours?

Results from the Centre for Economic Performance study in March 2015 suggest deregulation of Sunday trading laws has a considerable positive impact on employment, which stems from new firms being able to enter the mark... Read more...

Thejournal.ie

One way to help stop floods? Don't let developers build on flood plains

Dr Tom McDermott of the School of Economics and the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork has been working with colleagues from the London School of Economics and Oxford University to examine overpo... Read more...

Irish Examiner

Experts back tighter restrictions for building on flood-prone plains

Climate change experts have backed calls for tighter planning restrictions to prevent new building on flood plains after the worst national flooding crisis in a generation. After a major study of city floods around the w... Read more...

Il Sole 24

Brexit catastrophe per Londra

Brexit would be a catastrophe for the British economy: leaving the European Union would mean sacrificing the prosperity and the future security of the United Kingdom, according to a survey among experts. None of the more... Read more...

The Financial Times

Economists' forecasts: Osborne faces problems imposing more cuts

Chancellor George Osborne will struggle to impose further spending cuts over the next five years, most economists believe. Question: Fiscal policy: Please explain which of the below statements is closest to your views.... Read more...

The Financial Times

Economists' Forecasts: Boosts and risks to recovery

Four out of five economists in the Financial Times survey see another good year of UK growth, keeping Britain near the top of the international table for advanced economies, a position it has enjoyed since the start of 2... Read more...

The Financial Times

Economists' Forecasts: Interest rates to stay low

British households can look forward to another year of ultra-low interest rates, with most economists expecting a maximum 1 per cent by the end of 2016. Just five out of 104 respondents to the question: ''Please explain ... Read more...

The Financial Times

Economists' forecasts: Policies will not stop house price rises

Government initiatives to support home ownership and build new houses will fail to have any real impact in 2016, with UK property prices expected to keep climbing. John Van Reenen, Director, Centre for Economic Performa... Read more...

The Financial Times

Subsidies encourage housebuilding on floodplains, report finds

The UK taxpayer is left to pick up the cost of flooding because housebuilders do not contribute enough when building homes, giving them an incentive to build on floodplains, according to research. Flooding costs between... Read more...

Health Affairs Blog

Making sense of price and quantity variations in U.S. health care

A recent study by Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen has documented the remarkable variations across regions and age groups, and within regions, in U.S. health care spending. Previously, the Da... Read more...

USNews Health

Hospital prices vary widely across the United States

The cost of medical care varies widely across the United States, a new study reports. Hospitals negotiate the cost of medical services with insurance companies. And, the new report found that prices at hospitals in monop... Read more...

New Yorker

Health Care?s Price Conundrum

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Private Sector Development (World bank blog)

What's next fo the competitive cities initiative: `To travel far, let's travel together'

The World Bank Group launched the Competitive Cities report [1] on December 10 - ''Competitive Cities for Jobs and Growth: What, Who and How,'' which represents almost two years of research and analysis to put together a... Read more...

Becker's Hospital Review

Week in review: 10 biggest healthcare stories this week

3. New data shows experts were wrong about where healthcare costs less Researchers analyzed the real prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers and found places that spend less on Medicare do not necessarily spend... Read more...

China Daily

Experts split on Brexit impact on Chinese links

Dennis Novy believes Chinese investors would no longer take the UK seriously if the country left the EU. ''It would be one-sided deterioration'', argues the associate professor of economics at the University of Warwick,... Read more...

Center for American Progress

Helping firms by helping employees? Work-life balance in America

Article by Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen There is a long history of debate within business, policy, and economic literature regarding whether firms can improve their performance by tr... Read more...

ITV News at 10

A British Exit from the EU? There's still no plan for that

John Van Reenen interviewed by ITN A group of economists from the LSE have tried to model the effect Brexit would have on trade. Interestingly, they concluded that even in the best-case scenario Britain would face subst... Read more...

MarketPlace

An unprecedented look at medical costs nationwide

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New York Times

The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care

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Time

Costs of hospital operations can vary wildly by location

The cost insurance companies pay for a medical operation in a hospital varies dramatically from city to city within the U.S. and can even vary by a factor of nine within an individual city, according to new research. The... Read more...

infoPLC.net (Spain)

Nos quitara el empleo un robot?

Robots at work is a study by Georg Graetz of the University of Uppsala in Sweden and Guy Michaels at the London School of Economics that analyzes statistics from 1993 until 2007 of 14 industries in 17 developed countries... Read more...

BBC News online - Education and Family

Norwegian school funds UK youth charity

'Bleak' prospects A seminar on social mobility in the UK, to be held at the London School of Economics on Thursday, will hear that too little progress is being made. It will be addressed by Prof Stephen Machin, res... Read more...

The Daily Telegraph

'Middle classes have found new ways to retain their upper hand in the educational arms race'

Article by Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin Private tutoring is booming and elite universities remain preserve of middle classes; something must change, say Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin Social mobility is t... Read more...

Share Radio

Are we headed for a manufacturing slowdown? With John Van Reenen of LSE

John Van Reenen, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, discusses today's UK manufacturing. This interview was broadcast by Share Radio on December 8, 2015 Link to interview ... Read more...

Mature Times

Tackling the challenges of dementia

Professor Martin Knapp at the London School of Economics and Political Science will lead another study, which will develop a publicly available tool to help meet the future needs of dementia patients and their carers. A ... Read more...

Mirror.co.uk

Will George Osborne's steamy shower scene make him King of Tory Jungle?

Chancellor George Osborne survived the Bush Tucker trial that was Wednesday's spending review. ... Professor John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance, said: ''The sexy centrefold was a naked rever... Read more...

FEWEEK.CO.UK

Good news in Budget - but what does it mean for learners?

Sandra McNally, Director of the Centre for Vocational Education Research, considers the possible impact of Chancellor George Osborne's November 25 Budget. This article was published in FEWeek.co.uk on November 27, 2015 ... Read more...

LSE Business Review blog

Healthcare competition can improve management quality and save lives

Money should follow patients and they need information and choice, write Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen In work with Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler, we evaluate whether competition improves hospital quality, in pa... Read more...

Finance and Development magazine

People in Economics: A generous-hearted life

Richard Layard profiled: ''Richard Layard, who believes the basic purpose of economics is the maximization of happiness and well-being'' A day after sharing a stage with the Dalai Lama, London School of Economics (LSE)... Read more...

Gavin Kelly blog

The debate on social mobility is stuck: time for a city perspective

Social mobility plays a curious and sometimes tortuous role in our national political psyche. We love talking about it even if we can't, or won't, do much about it. Greater mobility is a goal lionised by all politicians ... Read more...

Hallands Nyheter

Robotar b?de tar och ger jobb - Affarsvarlden

In order of importance, it can be compared with the steam machine's breakthrough in the beginnings of industrialisation, according to Department of Economics Researcher George Graetz at Uppsala University. This article ... Read more...

Economonitor

Nicaragua: a success story in the making

All said, are Nicaraguans happier? According to the World Happiness Report 2015, edited by John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey Sachs, Nicaraguans are indeed happier now than they were in 2007. Nicaragua ranks fir... Read more...

LSE Politics and Policy blog

Because GDP is not enough: five headline indicators for better policymaking

Prioritising wellbeing as a key measure of whether policy is improving human lives would lead to more interventions like the provision of psychological therapy for people with mental health problems, which increased acc... Read more...

BBC Coventry and Warwickshire

Drive Programme

Dennis Novy gave a radio interview for the Drive programme with Lorna Bailey. The topic was the upcoming negotiations of Prime Minister David Cameron over Britain's EU membership and in particular their implications for ... Read more...

Business Insider (Scotland)

Report: Immigration

''Immediately after the General Election in May this year, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) was commissioned by the Conservative government to examine Tier 2 of the Points-Based System,'' ... The MAC indicated in A... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Britain needs Europe a lot more than Europe needs Britain

With the Leave.eu campaign pledging to win back the UK, and with The Britain Stronger in Europe campaign pledging to explain the ''true reality of life'' outside the EU, arguments for and against UK's membership give and... Read more...

TV5Monde

Le chomage en Espagne poursuit son repli a deux mois des legislatives

Liberal Ciudadanos defends the idea of a single contract to end a two-tier labour market, with ''a core of the temporary workers, much less protected and highly protected workers even as the United States'', said economi... Read more...

Market News International - The Main Wire

BREXIT: MNI experts poll puts one-in-three chance on leaving

Some experts suggest it is more likely than not the UK will vote to leave. LSE Professor John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance, put the chance of an ''Out'' vote at 54%, with very wide uncertai... Read more...

The Sunday Times

George the Builder CAN HE FIX IT?

Will the attempt by the chancellor to take politics out of our new infrastructure projects succeed, asks Kathryn Cooper ''Britain is a big, diverse country with very active press and democratic process, which can hold u... Read more...

The Economist

Fixing a hole

Four ideas to improve Britain's bad record on big building projects UK government's plans for increased infrastructure spending and Centre for Economic Performance's recommendations. The article was published online by... Read more...

Share Radio - Investment Perspectives

Are we taking care of UK infrastructure? Anna Valero, LSE, joins us on the line

''We are the builders'' - So George Osborne declared at this years Tory Conference. Is he right, or are we neglecting our National Infrastructure? Anna Valero, research economist at LSE, joins us to walk through the argu... Read more...

Financial Times

Academic research cuts through Theresa May's immigration claims

In her address to the Conservative party conference, the home secretary delivered a pointed speech saying that ''there is no case, in the national interest, for immigration of the scale we have experienced over the last ... Read more...

The Guardian

The rocky road to regeneration of post-industrial areas

Ever since Thatcher's Teesside stroll, breathing life into blighted areas has met with mixed success. Understanding what might work is a step in the right direction. Professor Alan Manning of the London School of Econ... Read more...

BBC Radio Suffolk

News

Debate on banning mobile phones from classrooms mentions LSE [CEP] research. The news item was broadcast by BBC Radio Suffolk on September 30, 2015 Link to broadcast here See also BBC Radio Shropshire News Discussi... Read more...

Guardian

'London effect' in schools due to gradual improvements not policies, says report

LSE report says primaries improving since 90s and abolition of Inner London Education Authority led to pupils' success One of the researchers, Jo Blanden of the University of Surrey, said: ''London's schools have become... Read more...

The Atlantic

The $5 cereal that provoked a London mob

In the East London case, wrote Paul Cheshire, an emeritus professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, via email, ''the very early relatively poor but mainly educated/drop-out pioneer gentrifiers - ... Read more...

The Times

We ought to be appalled to see what's happening to the greenbelt

This was based on a study by Professor Paul Cheshire, of the London School of Economics, which declared that... This article was published by The Times on September 30, 2015 [Subscription needed to view article.] Re... Read more...

Bloomberg Business

The successes and shortfalls of treating mental illness

London School of Economics Professor Richard Peter Layard, author of Thrive, discusses progress made in treating mental health and the impact of mental illness on the global economy. He speaks on 'Bloomberg Surveillance... Read more...

Forbes

Governments still don't know which policies help entrepreneurs

Henry Overman interviewed by Philip Salter It's easy to make policy, but it's hard to make the right ones. These are the sorts of questions the excellent What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth looks at. It recently... Read more...

The National

Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp: Brexit is not the panacea we need for all EU's problems

THE Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics predicts the range of Brexit economic scenarios from something akin to the global financial crisis (-10 per cent GDP) to a best case scenario of a -2.... Read more...

BBC World Service

Interview

Richard Layard, emeritus Professor of economics at the LSE interviewed on action for happiness campaign for increased happiness and kindness in the UK. The interview was broadcast by BBC World Service on September 21, 2... Read more...

EIN News

Interfaith meeting and action for happiness event

In the afternoon, an enthusiastic and friendly audience of more than 2000 awaited His Holiness's arrival at the Lyceum theatre. He was met at the stage door by his old friend Lord Richard Layard, who with Director of Act... Read more...

Confidencial Colombia

La economia de la felicidad

In the 70's, the New Yorker Richard Easterlin Economist concluded that, once past a certain level of income in the richest nations, happiness not increased as a result of higher revenues. Today we know for scientific res... Read more...

Le Monde.fr

Migrants: dissiper les fantasmes

However, other studies show that the influx of immigrants has negative effects on the median salary (but not on employment) natives working in low-skilled sectors such as the building and public works, so on the remunera... Read more...

The Times

Smartphones could face ban from classes

Ofsted, the schools inspectorate, has raised concerns about secondary pupils using their phones at school. LSE academics released a study in May suggesting that restricting mobile phone use could improve results. This a... Read more...

IBERONEWS (Spain)

Ojo! Este es el gran problema y mayor riesgo para los paises emergentes

Pero no es el unico que comparte ese punto de vista. Tambien Luis Garicano, profesor de la London School of Economics, analizaba los retos a los que se enfrenta la economia global en los proximos anos en un encuentro rec... Read more...

RIETI - Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, IAA

What is Brexit and why it matters

Article by Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano As the deadline gets closer, the United Kingdom (UK) public debate is heating up on an event that, one way or another, could change the identity of the European Union (EU) and its e... Read more...

BBC Radio Gloucestershire

News

...the role of smart phones in the classroom its after research from the London school of economics suggested exam results improve in schools... This broadcast was made by BBC Radio Glouchestershire on September 3, 2015... Read more...

Mailonline

Economists warn Corbynomics could be 'highly damaging' to Britain

Leading economists have warned that Jeremy Corbyn's economic policies are 'likely to be highly damaging' and renationalising industry could actually 'make things worse'. In the new letter to the Financial Times, the aut... Read more...

Financial Times

Corbynomics has not been thought through seriously

Centre for Economic Performance's Director, Professor John Van Reenen among economists signing a letter critical of Labour Party leader candidate, Jeremy Corbyn's economic plans. The letter was published by The Financia... Read more...

LBC Radio

James O'Brien

Mention of research from London school of economics about mobile phones in the classroom. The research was mentioned on LBC Radio's James O'Brien show on September 2, 2015 Link to the broadcast here Related Publicat... Read more...

CVER blog

The past and future of apprentices

The Centre for Vocational Education Research's Claudia Hupkau looks at what can be learnt from past apprentices growth for the government's 3 million apprenticeship target. With GCSE results recently out, many students ... Read more...

ptb.be

Tax-shift: Un gouvernement du 1% qui trompe enormement

...realisee par Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, professeur d'economie à la London School of Economics, montre au contraire,... Tax-shift: A Government of the 1% who are greatly mistaken However, the reasoning of the Governmen... Read more...

Sky News

Robot revolution: will machines take your job?

Uppsala University's Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels from the London School of Economics looked at productivity and employment in a variety of countries between 1993 and 2007 to see if the trepidation about the increased u... Read more...

Democratic Audit

A howl for the past rather than a serious fight for the future: Corbyn and the political economy of nostalgia

Article by John Van Reenen Voting for Jeremy Corbyn as leader is a gut reaction to Labour's electoral defeat. Corbyn does point to some real economic problems facing Britain but his policies are based largely on the kin... Read more...

City AM

Can Alexis Tsipras survive as Greece's Prime Minister?

Article by Dennis Novy Alexis Tsipras will be able to survive, for one simple reason: there’s no better alternative. The Greeks don’t want to leave the Eurozone. The last months have shown that the government's prev... Read more...

The Independent

Daily catch-up: in other, non-Corbyn, news, here be idiots and other research findings

More evidence of the success of the academy schools programme was published yesterday. A new paper by Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin at the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE finds that ''the first round of acad... Read more...

The Independent

Visa changes for skilled migrants may force firms overseas, says watchdog

David Cameron's plan to toughen visa rules for foreign workers could backfire by forcing British companies to expand overseas and hitting the quality of university research, the Government's immigration advisers warned y... Read more...

City AM

Business warns Tories over migration curbs

It remains unclear whether the levy would be introduced as a one-off cost or an annual tax. Sir David Metcalf, a former London School of Economics professor who chairs the MAC, echoed Lloyds yesterday, saying that as a r... Read more...

MSN News US

Maybe you don't need to worry about robots taking your job

In a new paper from London's Center for Economic Research [sic] George Graetz, of Uppsala University, and Guy Michaels, of London School of Economics found that industrial robots have actually driven labor productivity a... Read more...

Times Higher Education

Unknown variables

In a recent discussion paper for the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance, Stephen Machin, professor of economics at University College London, and Richard Murphy, assistant professor of economics a... Read more...

Essex Chronicle

Go back to school

It's a well-known fact that Essex is blessed with an excellent choice of schools, in both the public and private sectors. And thanks to some research published a couple of years ago by the Centre for Economic Performance... Read more...

Agerpres.ro (Romania)

RECORDURI: Cea mai fericita tara din lume

Records: the happiest country in the world On April 24, 2015, the 2015 Edition of the happiness of the world (World Happiness Report) was published. The work includes a happiness measure, taking into account 158 countri... Read more...

Building-Projects.co.uk

London faces skyscraper pressure unless planning laws change

[Gabriel] Ahlfeldt, an Associate Professor of Urban Economics and Land Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, says as long as outward growth is prevented by policies such as the 'green belt'... Read more...

The Independent (web)

The Government says it is going to crack down on people who employ illegal migrants

There is very little evidence to suggest that migration has a significant negative impact on wages or employment. A study by researchers at the London School of Economics earlier this year found that immigration to Brita... Read more...

Living Well

How a cognitive footprint may put the heat on dementia

It was some considerable interest that I read a contribution in dementia policy, co-authored by one of my previous bosses, Prof Martin Rossor. The other co-author was Prof Martin Knapp from LSE. This article was publis... Read more...

Lindedin.com

We need clean energy innovation, and lots of it

Article by Bill Gates Last month, during a trip to Europe, I mentioned that I plan to invest $1 billion in clean energy technology over the next five years. This will be a fairly big increase over the investments I am a... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

A Global Apollo Programme to tackle climate change

Article by Richard Layard Leading thinkers across the worlds of science, public service and academia have launched a new global programme to combat climate change. Richard Layard outlines their proposal for big public i... Read more...

Not running a hospital - blog

The board has to be on board

Those of us who have run hospitals where we've been serious about achieving improvements in quality and safety know that without a highly committed board of trustees, the results will never be sustainable. And so it is l... Read more...

New Statesman

The record-breaking solar plane is grounded ? is there still hope for clean energy?

This autumn sees the launch of the Global Apollo Programme: a green research initiative that wants governments to match, in today's money, the sums spent putting men on the moon. At a time of increasing austerity, reques... Read more...

Aitkenage.com

Scouting teaches morals and more

In the book A Good Childhood: Searching for Values in a Competitive Age by Judy Dunn and Richard Layard, they reference a study which reports only seven percent of adults say children have a stronger sense of moral value... Read more...

Independent

Recovery of UK economy is the slowest since records began, say unions

... Top economists echoed the TUC's concerns yesterday ... Growth in recent years has been ''anaemic'', according to University College London's Professor Stephen Machin, and research director at the Centre for Economic ... Read more...

The Conversation

Abolishing student grants and raising fees above #9,000 heaps more debt on poorest students

Article by Gill Wyness There were a surprising number of announcements relating to higher education in George Osborne's budget this week. One of the most controversial was the announcement that university maintenance gr... Read more...

China Central TV Europe (CCTV.com)

United Kingdom: Latest budget crunch and tax cuts plus parallel

John Van Reenen interviewed on the UK budget. This interview was broadcast by China Central TV Europe (CCTV) on July 9, 2015 Link to broadcast here [Interview with Prof Van Reenen starts around 02.30] Related publicat... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Summer budget: High hopes for the productivity plan - is enough being done?

Article by Anna Valero In the 2015 summer budget, George Osborne at last identified the UK's productivity performance as an important issue that needs to be tackled. Here, Anna Valero reviews some of the measures ahea... Read more...

The Sunday Times

No 10 adviser: Charge super-rich #3m to settle in UK

DAVID CAMERON'S top immigration adviser has suggested the introduction of a £3m ''entry fee'' for Russian oligarchs and other wealthy foreigners who want to stay in Britain, with some of the proceeds used to help s... Read more...

Financial Times

Free lunch: The wrong tax reform

For the first question, the argument for lowering the rate is that a higher rate makes people behave in such a way that there is less income to be taxed in the first place. So a higher rate may not bring in much more mon... Read more...

The Conversation

The divide is growing between what employers and ministers want students to study

Article by Sandra McNally From this September, all pupils at secondary school will have to study English, a language, maths, science and history or geography at GCSE. This is the English Baccalaureate, or Ebacc, which e... Read more...

Financial Times

A moonshot to save a warming planet

A report entitled A Global Apollo Programme to Combat Climate Change, written by a number of high-profile British scientists and economists, offers a bold answer. It argues that carbon-free energy has to become competiti... Read more...

CNBC

China says hello to Mr. Roboto

A paper by Uppsala University and the London School of Economics in February revealed that industrial robots do increase labor productivity and raise a country's average growth rate by 0.37 percentage points. The ar... Read more...

Financial Times

Cameron wants wage rises to replace benefits

Iain Duncan Smith, the welfare secretary, has exhorted companies to ''pay their full share'' of workers' remuneration rather than leaving it to the state to prop up incomes through tax credits. Professor Steve Machin, re... Read more...

Chron

The Economist tallies the cost of excessive land-use regulation

Similar work by Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber, of the London School of Economics, estimated that in the early 2000s this regulatory shadow tax was roughly 300% in Milan and Paris, 450% in the City of London, and 800... Read more...

The Huffington Post

The secret of happiness (it's not what you think)

Money, as the song lyric has it, can't buy you love - or happiness. Happiness, as Richard Layard's research shows, depends much more on the quality of our personal relationships than on our income. In many ways, the most... Read more...

FE Week

New 'data driven' BIS Vet research centre hits the spot

The new aims and role of the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) has become clearer since a consultation event this month, as Andrew Morris explains. The new Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER), ... Read more...

InfoPLC

La robotica y automatizacion no destruye empleo

The study 'Robots at Work' (Robots at work), published in February 2015 analyzes the impact of the growing automation in the economic development of 17 countries. Its authors Georg Graetz of the University of Uppsala and... Read more...

TES News

`Encouraging a growth mindset is not just about boosting academic achievement'

First Richard Layard, my colleague in the Lords, blogged about why schools should teach character as well as competence. Their research at the LSE, using the British Cohort Study, found that the strongest predictor of a ... Read more...

Investment Europe

Brexit: What's at stake for the UK

Deutsche Bank has been the first one to fire a warning shot over the UK vote to leave the EU, but others are certainly already preparing too, says Dr. Dennis Novy, associate professor in the department of Economics at th... Read more...

Charleston Gazette (West Virginia)

Should I stay or should I go? Britain's EU question

The democratic nature of this debate is a helpful reminder as to why history matters. If Britain does withdraw from the European Union, the cost for families and the national economy will be immense. As reported in the G... Read more...

BBC Radio 4

News

Paul Cheshire discusses using limited amount of London's green belt for housing. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 News on June 14, 2015 [No link available.] Related Publications The Green Belt: A Plac... Read more...

The Huffington Post (Germany)

Mensch und Roboter: zusammen unschlagbar

Humans and robots: together unbeatable The current study ''Robots at Work'' by Graetz and Michaels (Uppsala University and London School of Economics), which examines the impact of increasing automation on the economic ... Read more...

The Guardian.com (web)

Osborne plan has no basis in economics

Letter from Ha-Joon Chang, Thomas Piketty, David Blanchflower and others Emeritus professor of Economics, Cambridge University Prof Hugh Willmott, CASS Business School Prof Steve Keen, Professor of Economics, Kingston U... Read more...

El Mundo

El pacto de gobierno incumple el programa economico de C's

Citizens violate their economic program in the Andalusian pact No sign of economist [Luis] Garicano's proposals to simplify administration. Queues at a theater to hear an economic program of a party was an unprecedente... Read more...

NewsRT.co.uk

Which universities offer the most financial support?

One of the reasons for this, according to Gill Wyness, a researcher in education policy at the centre for economic performance at the London School of Economics and a lecturer at the University College London Institute o... Read more...

The Spectator

Right to reply - Jonathan Portes on Niall Ferguson

...in 2013, I wrote that the evidence was 'mixed on wages, with some evidence of downward pressure for the lower paid'. He argues that the latter statement contradicts the former. In the intervening five years, we've ha... Read more...

Foreign Policy Magazine

Embroiled in endless conflict, how is Israel the 11th happiest nation in the world?

...its roster of contributors includes John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, and Jeffrey D. Sachs who is, among other things, special advisor to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Overall,... Read more...

The Financial Times

UK property crisis scuppering aspiration

Britain's politicians say they are keen to reward aspiration, but soaring house prices are a significant block to achieving this. Professor Christian Hilber, from the London School of Economics, explains to Ferdinando Gi... Read more...

Vox

The case for a Global Apollo Programme to limit climate change

Article by Richard Layard, Gus O'Donnell, Nicholas Stern, Adair Turner If clean energy were cheaper than dirty energy, climate change would halt. Making clean energy cheaper is a problem - like putting a man - on the... Read more...

Epoch Times

Too Many or Too Few Workers? Another Look at the Chinese Employment Market

However, Keyu Jin of the London School of Economics now says the Chinese economy is not creating enough jobs. This article was published by The Epoch Times on June 3, 2015 Link to article here Related links Keyu J... Read more...

The Hindu

India central to green energy plan: U.K. climate change envoy

India will be a member of a consortium of countries that will implement the Global Apollo Programme - a plan to find ways within the next 10 years of making green energy clean cheaper to produce than energy drawn from c... Read more...

Clean Technica

Global Apollo Programme aims to tackle climate change

In the deepest chill of the Cold War, then-president of the United States John F. Kennedy announced to the country, and the world, that ''we choose to go to the moon.'' The Apollo Programme placed a man on the moon withi... Read more...

Daily Kos

'We managed to put a man on the moon. Now we need to put clean energy on Earth.'

''The challenge is as big as putting a man on the moon,'' says Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, one of the founders of the programme along with other prominent scientists, economists and industrialists. ... Read more...

Information (Denmark)

Apollo skal inspirere til billig og ren energi

A number of Britain's leading experts in the field of climate research are focused on achieving the goal of solving the world's most pressing problem: the continued global temperature rise. This article was published on... Read more...

Festival Economia Trento

Affari di famiglia: nepotismo politico e carriere nelle imprese italiane

Marco Manacorda filmed giving a talk at the Festival of Economics on Trento. There is abundant anecdotal evidence but poor empirical evidence of the benefits enjoyed by the relatives of politicians in the labor market. ... Read more...

New Scientist

New Apollo programme wants moonshot budget to boost renewables

''The challenge is as big as putting a man on the moon,'' says Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, one of the founders of the programme along with other prominent scientists, economists and industrialists. ... Read more...

The Guardian

Global Apollo programme seeks to make clean energy cheaper than coal

Lord Richard Layard, an economist at the London School of Economics and member of the Apollo group, said it was barely believable that the world only spent 2% of its R&D money on its ''most pressing problem'' of clim... Read more...

BBC World Service

News

Interview with Lord Layard regarding launch of the 'Apollo' programme to make renewables cheaper than fossil fuels. The interview was broadcast by the BBC World Service News on June 2, 2015 [No link available.] Relate... Read more...

The Huffington Post

We need a global Apollo Programme to tackle climate change

Article by Richard Layard The target for GAP is to reduce the cost of clean energy and to do it fast. This article was published by The Huffington Post on June 2, 2015 Link to article here Related links 'Global ... Read more...

The Financial Times

Property puzzle

Partly as a result London house prices per square foot are now the second highest in the world after Monaco, according to the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. The problem is acute: the average... Read more...

The Independent

Leading scientists join campaign to end use of coal within 10 years

Leading academics, including former government chief scientist Sir David King, past president of the Royal Society Lord Rees, and economists Lord Stern and Lord Layard, in effect said that the world cannot be saved from ... Read more...

ANSAen Business

Relatives of politicians 'earn more'

Having a politician relative adds an average of 500 euros a year to one's salary, according to a new study by two Italian economists. This is equal to a 3 percent increase in an average paycheck. In comparison, every a... Read more...

The Independent

Richard Layard: `Money is not the only thing affecting people's happiness'

The Chris Blackhurst interview from 13 July 2014 How could we become a happier nation? One pioneering economist has spent the best part of a decade arguing that we simply must find an answer to this question - gaining ... Read more...

The Economist

Trade unions: Back to the future

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...

BBC Radio 4

More or Less Programme: Seven-day NHS

Anna Sivropoulos-Valero interviewed on productivity. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4's More or Less Programme on May 29, 2015 Link to interview here [Interview begins around 08:24.] Related publications ... Read more...

CBC News (Nova Scotia, Canada)

School cellphone bans raised grades says researchers

About 85 per cent of Canadian high school students have a mobile phone, but two economics researchers have concluded cellphones are distracting in class. Their research paper concludes high school students score higher m... Read more...

The Conversation

Why French school curriculum and timetable reforms forced teachers onto the streets

Article by Camille Terrier French teachers went on strike on May 19 to voice their disapproval of two major reforms that have been proposed by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the French education minister. The two reforms are v... Read more...

The Guardian - teacher network

Let the kids use their phones in class

The London School of Economics showed that test scores of 16-year-old students were 6.4 percent higher after schools banned students from using mobile phones. This article was published by the Guardian - Teacher Netwo... Read more...

WSOC-TV

Kids do better when schools ban smartphones

Schools that have banned students from carrying smartphones have seen an improvement in the children's test stores, reported CNN Money on a new study from the London School of Economics. This article was published onl... Read more...

BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire

Phil Upton's 'Drive' Show

Dennis Novy (CEP) interviewed on the comment by Lord Bamford, Chairman of JCB, that leaving the EU would not necessarily be a big problem for British business. This interview was broadcast by BBC Radio Coventry &... Read more...

The Conversation

Mental health momentum mustn't give way to political expediency

The authoritative How Mental Health Loses Out in the NHS study, published by the LSE in 2012, revealed that for people aged 65 or less, nearly half of all ill health was mental ill health. This article was published o... Read more...

BBC Radio 5

5 Live Drive

Anna Sivropoulos-Valero interviewed, on productivity. The interview was broadcast live on BBC Radio 5 on May 13, 2015 Related publications Productivity and Business Policies, Isabelle Roland and Anna Valero, CEP... Read more...

The Conversation

How smart is it to allow students to use mobile phones at school?

Article by Richard Murphy and Louis-Philippe Beland How does the presence of mobile phones in schools impact student achievement? This is an ongoing debate in many countries today. Some advocate for a complete ban, whil... Read more...

The Guardian

What would you pay to be happy?

Richard Layard, a British social economist and associate of Kahneman, found himself at the top table of Britain's New Labour government when it took power in 1997. The press gave him the title Happiness Tsar, and his 200... Read more...

The Financial Times

Digital start-ups question links to 'Tech City'

''Our ambition is to bring together the creativity and energy of Shoreditch and the incredible possibilities of the Olympic Park to help make east London one of the world's great technology centres,'' Mr Cameron said in ... Read more...

The Carbon Brief

UK must reform climate policies to become global leader, say economists

A steep reduction in UK emissions over the last two decades disguises a number of ineffective government policies, argues a new report from the London School of Economics. In a briefing on the key environmental policy is... Read more...

The Conversation

Fact Check: are disadvantaged young people 12 times less likely to go to university?

The Conversation is fact checking political statements in the lead-up to the May UK general election. Statements are checked by an academic with expertise in the area. A second academic expert reviews an anonymous copy o... Read more...

The Financial Times

Rent controls that aren't

Both labour and its opponents make too much of a new policy Labour made two housing policy commitments over the weekend, only one of which was interesting. The uninteresting one was the promise to cut stamp duty for fir... Read more...

Financial Times

Free lunch: read my lips

In a recent briefing from the London School of Economics, Alan Manning writes that raising tax from 45 to 50 per cent has highly uncertain, but small, effects on the public finances. But what is clear is that if the high... Read more...

LSE British Politics and Policy blog

Paying for higher education - what are the parties proposing?

University financing has again emerged as a key battleground issue in the 2015 General Election. Should fees be regulated lower and if so, how will the cost be financed? Gill Wyness explores these questions. Published... Read more...

The Observer

What would happen if Britain left the EU?

One of the main arguments employed by those in favour of remaining in the EU is simply how difficult it would prove to leave. We are deeply integrated with our European allies - economically, militarily and culturally. ... Read more...

Public Finance

Tax and benefit changes 'prompt rise in inequality'

There are signs that inequality in the UK is beginning to rise again following tax and benefit changes introduced since 2010, an economic analysis has found. The study by the Centre for Economic Performance found the... Read more...

The Conversation

Manifesto Check: the Liberal Democrat's top policies