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Places for vocational training should be funded in the same way as degrees and match demand from young learners, says Richard Layard. ... Read more...
26 October 2023
The authors of The Self-employment Trap, published by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), show how stagnant incomes and rising costs are having an impact on the wellbeing of the self-employed and increasing their ... Read more...
24 September 2023
Nick Bloom explores the forces driving the predicted increase in remote work over the coming decade. He outlines that working from home will benefit firms, employees and society. ... Read more...
29 August 2023
After four general election defeats, the Labour party seems likely to form the next government. In this Guardian opinion piece, Daniel Chandler shares his view that, for the Labour party to succeed, it needs not just new... Read more...
14 April 2023
Working from home accounted for only 5% of all workdays before the pandemic. But now it’s common to find many employees working from home at least part of the week. As of December 2022, almost 30% of paid workdays ... Read more...
22 December 2022
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...
13 November 2022
"Full earnings" account for wellbeing as well as financial reward. When wellbeing is factored into the equation, women and workers from ethnic minorities tend to be most vulnerable to the widening income inequality in th... Read more...
09 September 2022
The UK has spent years in hock to a failed economic orthodoxy. Now the consequences are coming to a head—all at the same time, Will Hutton writes. ... Read more...
08 September 2022
High energy prices are causing problems, as are the consequences of the Covid pandemic and the effects of Brexit. But research by the Resolution Foundation and the Center for Economic Performance suggests the causes of t... Read more...
15 July 2022
Nick Bloom in conversation on a surprising find from the pandemic: remote work is fuelling economic growth. ... Read more...
02 June 2022
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16 May 2022
Mental illness accounts for over 40 per cent of all sickness absence - reducing productivity at work. Richard Layard explains how this highlights the need for wellbeing provision in management practice. ... Read more...
11 May 2022
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...
15 December 2021
Richard Layard and Ken Clarke write about the need to improve opportunities for young people who don’t go to university. ... Read more...
04 December 2021
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...
22 November 2021
Alan Manning offers insights on trends in workers switching or leaving jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...
17 November 2021
A million workers are still employed by businesses at risk of closure over the next three months, as the government is poised to withdraw critical Covid support schemes, according to new analysis by Peter Lamb... Read more...
15 August 2021
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...
02 July 2021
Swati Dhingra speaks to the Telegraph about the impact of Covid-19 on attempts to overcome poverty in India, describing how many lower and middle urban workers are having to borrow money to make up for a ... Read more...
24 June 2021
The Financial Times cites research by Alan Manning and Graham Mazeine while analysing the dabate around improving job security as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. ... Read more...
20 April 2021
A study by Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura finds almost two-thirds of Britain’s self-employed workers are suffering financially from Covid-19, as the latest lockd... Read more...
02 March 2021
Few aspects of modern society have remained unaffected in some way by the Covid-19 pandemic, and so it's perhaps no surprise that a new report by Jiaqi Li, Anna Valero, Guglielmo Ventura shows that jo... Read more...
12 February 2021
In a recent working paper, Chad Bown, Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar and Lorenzo Trimarchi calculate the higher cost of imported inputs caused by those tariffs leveled at China caused the U.S. economy to create ... Read more...
08 February 2021
More than 900,000 small businesses are at risk of going under, according to research from Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen, and backed by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. ... Read more...
27 January 2021
Research by Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen warns around 900,000 small firms – employing 2.5 million workers – are at risk of going bust if Covid-19 rescue schemes are wound up. ... Read more...
Gordon Brown has called for emergency measures to support businesses in the budget after new research by Peter Lambert and John Van Reenen warned almost 1m UK companies were at risk of failure in the next thre... Read more...
Alan Manning considers the possible outcomes of a drop in immigration and population growth on productivity, economic growth and the labour market. ... Read more...
21 January 2021
New incentives need to be introduced to encourage employers to invest in younger workers who have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, the London School of Economics and Political Science has said. ... Read more...
16 December 2020
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...
08 December 2020
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...
10 November 2020
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...
The Economist examines the benefits of working from home in light of lockdown, and cites findings made by Nick Bloom that those who worked from home were more productive. ... Read more...
12 September 2020
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...
06 September 2020
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...
01 September 2020
The UK chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has now implemented two-thirds of the reform programme outlined by Richard Layard (“How to save pandemic survivors from the scourge of unemployment”, Opinion, May 9)... Read more...
14 May 2020
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...
05 May 2020
Former top civil servant Gus O'Donnell urges ministers to use 'wellbeing' analysis to allow a Sweden-style 'phased' easing of the coronavirus lockdown by balancing quality of life against t... Read more...
24 April 2020
Lord Gus O'Donnell writes about new research led by Richard Layard. The paper When to release the lockdown sets out a wellbeing-based framework to analyse the cost and benefits of lifting lockdown restrict... Read more...
This report sets out a framework which brings together economic, health, and social factors through a ‘common currency’ of wellbeing measurement, as a way of informing a decision on when to lift lo... Read more...
This study on wellbeing finds that there is a large initial shock to becoming unemployed, and then as people stay unemployed over time their levels of life satisfaction remain low. Published 2017. ... Read more...
17 April 2020
Published 2015, this paper takes household data to analyse links between unemployment, life-satisfaction and mental health. Finding evidence that mental illness is a significant cause of deprivation. ... Read more...
Job insecurity will dramatically affect educational outcomes for the families involved, writes Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela. ... Read more...
14 April 2020
This paper finds strong evidence supporting the theory that male and female unemployment rates have opposite effects on domestic violence against women. The results suggest higher unemployment for women increa... Read more...
08 April 2020
...... unless the government steps up and offers immediate funding support to training providers, says academic.Guglielmo Ventura, CEP research assistant, says the government should give a guarantee to every existing a... Read more...
07 April 2020
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...
06 April 2020
Professor Stephen Machin, director of CEP, helps explain how many workers are more vulnerable to the economic fallout from the coronavirus than the record-high employment figures suggest. "The last 12 ... Read more...
Older workers are more likely to be relatively secure with salaries and jobs which can be done from home during the lockdown. ... Read more...
03 April 2020
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...
01 April 2020
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve considers the economic impact of Covid-19, and it's effects on work and wellbeing. ... Read more...
24 March 2020
Remote work works best if it’s by choice and not every day. Many people are being forced to work from home for the first time during the coronavirus outbreak. That could have negative impacts on our... Read more...
20 March 2020
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...
09 March 2020
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...
03 March 2020
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...
22 October 2019
Another widely cited study - by Georg Graetz at Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics - also uses the IFR data but a different methodology, and shows that industrial robots increase produc... Read more...
17 October 2019
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...
13 September 2019
12 September 2019
By Barbara Petrongolo, Felix Koenig, and John Van Reenen Policy makers have long been concerned with helping people on disability benefits find some employment as this group has grown dramatically in recent decades. In ... Read more...
24 August 2019
Monica Langella and Alan Manning find that high unemployment in an area induces people to move away, and has an even stronger effect on the attractiveness of that area to potential movers. They also find that younger and... Read more...
19 August 2019
In many economies, the popularity of 'atypical employment relationships' is increasing. More and more people are using free time jobs, working on their own, making money through shared services. Economist Nikhil Datta pr... Read more...
26 July 2019
New UK evidence may lend support to heavier investment in transport infrastructure that facilitates longer-distance commuting, write Michael Amior and Alan Manning.... Read more...
23 July 2019
By Nikhil Datta, PhD candidate, UCL, and Research Assistant, CEP, LSE. Originally published at VoxEU Is the rise of 'atypical' work arrangements - such as self-employment, freelancing, gig work and zero-hour contracts -... Read more...
20 July 2019
Nikhil Datta Is the rise of 'atypical' work arrangements - such as self-employment, freelancing, gig work and zero-hour contracts - a result of workers wanting such jobs or because they have no other choice? This column... Read more...
19 July 2019
Freelancers, gig workers and the self-employed like flexibility, but they would much prefer job security, writes Nikhil Datta.... Read more...
16 July 2019
Since the advent of industrial robots, various studies have been published on "How industrial robots affect manufacturing". For example, according to an industry survey of 17 countries from 1993 to 2007 (Graetz, G and G ... Read more...
12 July 2019
In an article for Bloomberg last month, Noah Smith notes that the hubbub about technological unemployment and falling wages is largely a lot of scary hand-wringing over what is possible rather than clear-headed analysis ... Read more...
11 July 2019
03 July 2019
... and the author of the new research paper, Nikhil Datta. "They value these, and other aspects of job security like sick leave and paid holiday, ... ... Read more...
GIG ECONOMY work is a necessity rather than a choice, and those reliant on it would be willing to earn less in exchange for more job security, according to a study of workers in the UK and the US. The report by the Londo... Read more...
02 July 2019
Freelancers, gig workers and the self-employed like flexibility, but they would much prefer job security, writes Nikhil Datta... Read more...
"Workers like knowing when their next pay check is coming, where it's coming from and how much it will be," said Nikhil Datta, researcher at the ... ... Read more...
26 June 2019
Workers facing occupational decline earn 2-5 per cent less over their careers; low earners can lose 10 per cent, write Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnas and Guy Michaels. ... Read more...
25 June 2019
Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnas, Guy Michaels As new technologies replace human labour in a growing number of tasks, employment in some occupations invariably falls. This column compares ou... Read more...
24 June 2019
One of these efforts can be found in an article by economists Francesco Caselli and Alan Manning. Its mathematical model is quite flexible: it allows many types of workers and many different consumer and capital goods.... Read more...
23 June 2019
22 June 2019
The introduction of an extra robot for a thousand workers reduces the employment rate by about 0.18-0.34 percentage points and wages by 0.25-0.5 percentage points. Looking at a sample of 17 countries, Georg Graetz and Gu... Read more...
20 June 2019
19 June 2019
Workers facing occupational decline earn 2-5 per cent less over their careers; low earners can lose 10 per cent, write Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnas and Guy Michaels.... Read more...
18 June 2019
"The striking fact is that over time, people simply do not adapt to being unemployed," says Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, an associate professor of economics and strategy at Oxford University and associate editor of th... Read more...
17 June 2019
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...
29 May 2019
"We used to think that unemployment responded to growth in the economy. We used to think I it took about 2 percent growth to make any in roads into unemployment But the recovery since the recession has gone against that ... Read more...
13 May 2019
Workers in the agricultural sector are among the most vulnerable to being paid below the minimum wage and HMRC needs to be more proactive in punishing non-compliant businesses, a leading employment expert has warned. ... Read more...
03 May 2019
Dr Stefan Speckesser, Dr Matthew Bursnall and Jamie Moore share the findings of a new report.... Read more...
25 April 2019
Dr Stefan Speckesser from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, which conducted the analysis, said the study showed that some local areas were more successfully tackling the negative effects of disadvan... Read more...
24 April 2019
Original information: Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman, John Van Reenen. Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy. American Economic Review, 2019, 109(1): 48-85. Governments around the world provide la... Read more...
14 April 2019
In the mid 1990s, a UK employer could advertise an opening for a security guard on an hourly wage of just £2 - with a requirement to bring their own dog. Twenty years on from the introduction of a national mini... Read more...
01 April 2019
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) last week published employment figures for the three months to January which showed that more than 90% of new jobs were full-time. "That doesn't mean they are high-quality jobs," ... Read more...
23 March 2019
Steve Machin, head of the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance, says more people of pensionable age are staying in the workforce: "The rise in labour force participation of older people is very stri... Read more...
"It's important to remember that China started with a much more broad-based and educated workforce when it embarked on its economic transition," says Swati Dhingra, from the London School of Economics. "India has seen m... Read more...
13 March 2019
Research indicates that universal child care might encourage people to have children. Spending on Research indicates that universal child care might encourage people to have children. Spending on early-childhood programs... Read more...
26 February 2019
A recent paper by economists from the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance suggests the introduction of the National Living Wage in April 2016 had such an impact. The paper examined closely the effects on the social car... Read more...
21 February 2019
But recent research by economists Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin suggests that undesired zero-hours contracts may have become more ... [paywall] ... Read more...
14 February 2019
The fall is more pronounced among companies that enjoy high market power, write Brian Bell, Pawel Bukowski and Stephen Machin. ... Read more...
11 February 2019
A new study looks at the long-run evolution of rent sharing between companies and workers in the UK and finds that rent sharing has significantly decreased between 2001 and 2016, particularly among companies that enjoy m... Read more...
08 February 2019
MGI was putting its finishing touches on the report in early 2016, but held its publication for the Brexit vote in March. "We weren't surprised by the outcome," Manyika told me. "We had been sitting on this research show... Read more...
07 February 2019
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...
06 February 2019
One little-known study could, however, help shed light on where the problem really lies. According to Professors Bell and Van Reenen of the LSE, the real issue is not that CEO pay has been inflated, but that worker pay h... Read more...
29 January 2019
By Giulia Giupponi and Camille Landais Labour hoarding - the practice of retaining excess employees during a negative shock - could potentially help firms avoid re-hiring and training costs when economic conditions imp... Read more...
25 January 2019
Claudia Olivetti at Boston College and Barbara Petrongolo at Queen Mary University of London found little evidence that extended leaves had a positive effect on women's employment or earnings - but found that subsidized ... Read more...
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...
15 January 2019
Autor and Salomons acknowledge that because they used such a general measure of technological change, they couldn't assess the impact of robotics specifically. They do cite work by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels that did ... Read more...
04 January 2019
19 December 2018
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...
17 December 2018
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...
07 December 2018
Evidence on how the positive economic effects of universities on individuals and the economy can be maximised - by Ghazala Azmat, Richard Murphy, Anna Valero and Gill Wyness.... Read more...
21 November 2018
There is a rise of an innovative elite that is an engine of efficiency. Its members are companies that have mastered digital technologies and enjoy network effects that help them fend off slower competitors, says John Va... Read more...
15 November 2018
John Van Reenen comments on whether executives in many industries are sold on the technical revolution. "There is a big debate on whether robots are really delivering on the productivity benefits they might promise." ... Read more...
09 November 2018
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...
08 November 2018
Alan Manning estimates that a minimum wage set at 50% of the median earnings will not result in big job losses. Manning's work had direct impact on the design of the UK National Minimum Wage in 1999, and some initial imp... Read more...
02 November 2018
Research by CEP Economists Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin. "A report recently undertaken by three labour market economists has found that 44% of workers on zero-hours contracts would like more workin... Read more...
13 October 2018
Hiking the minimum wage for low-paid care workers has a “rather worrying deterioration in the quality of care”, according to a new study. Care homes have responded to the introduction of the N... Read more...
08 July 2018
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...
29 May 2018
America’s patents and research spending have soared alongside its trade deficit with China. Article in the Economist refers to the research paper ‘ Related publications Trade Induced Te... Read more...
03 May 2018
Nudge-u-cation: Can behavioural science boost education and social mobility? Pro Bono Economics' Annual Lecture featuring Dr David Halpern, Professor Sandra McNally and Chris Brown. Over the last decade, g... Read more...
11 April 2018
Even so, some in industry have suggested that the latest rise in female unemployment is down to the large number of high street retailers and hospitality businesses closing or restructuring. Guy Michaels, asso... Read more...
22 March 2018
In this blog, Josh De Lyon (LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance) discusses some of the concerns with the economic forecasts of the effects of Brexit and suggests that the available reports are inf... Read more...
13 March 2018
Even customs duties, which will help US companies in the short term, can be detrimental in the long run. This protection of the domestic market can lead to a decline in qualitative competitiveness. In this con... Read more...
06 March 2018
Using tariffs to restore American competitiveness could easily backfire. If U.S. companies can hunker behind trade barriers and sell to a captive market, many will lose their edge. Research by economists Nicho... Read more...
05 March 2018
03 March 2018
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...
24 January 2018
In accordance with the theory of skill-biased technological change, many researchers are convinced that automation predominantly threatens low-skilled workers, who are at risk of being substituted for intellig... Read more...
19 December 2017
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...
03 December 2017
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...
28 November 2017
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...
26 November 2017
Parents with young children are ‘substantially’ less productive than their colleagues, due to a lack of sleep As every parent of a newborn knows, sleep is a foreign country, a place that they happi... Read more...
14 November 2017
Paying gig economy workers a premium level of the national minimum wage would risk confusing an already “too complicated” system by “over-egging the pudding”, MPs were told today. ... Read more...
25 October 2017
Director of labour market enforcement looking at measures against owners who refuse to follow employment regulations The government should consider imposing an embargo on goods made in factories where worke... Read more...
The UK Centre for Mental Health calculated that presenteeism from mental ill health alone costs the UK economy £15.1 billion (S$26.5 billion) per annum, while absenteeism costs £8.4 billion (S$14.4... Read more...
12 October 2017
Review Jonathan Wadsworth, professor of economics at Royal Holloway, University of London According to standard economic textbooks, the purported effects of immigration on the existing workforce are undo... Read more...
13 September 2017
Steve Gibbons, a member of a London School of Economics team that has produced a series of reports on the subject, says any claims that infrastructure investment is a cost-effective way of generating growth sh... Read more...
30 August 2017
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...
17 August 2017
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 le... Read more...
Snippet.. There seems to be a common consensus that anything is better than being unemployed – even working in a job that does not pay well and in which you have little control over your working conditio... Read more...
15 August 2017
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...
07 August 2017
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...
04 August 2017
Researchers are divided on whether bad jobs are worse for wellbeing than unemployment, write Tony Beatton, Paul Frijters and Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee Given a generally stronger social norm for men to be ... Read more...
Basically the only American-born group that you could even plausibly argue are harmed is high school dropouts. This is a fairly tiny group, but it’s not even clear they are harmed. Research by the Univer... Read more...
03 August 2017
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...
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...
02 August 2017
…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...
29 July 2017
27 July 2017
Big retailers and construction companies may be fined for labour abuses committed by smaller firms further down the supply chain, the government’s first labour enforcement tsar has suggested. Unveiling h... Read more...
25 July 2017
At which point a little thumbnail sketch of what we're worried about in the US labour market. Traditionally the US has had very little long term unemployment. Sure, the general rate rose in recessions, fel... Read more...
07 July 2017
What explains this persistence? The results of our recent work suggest some considerations. The evolution of economic activity throughout the country has systematically favoured at the expense of other area... Read more...
23 June 2017
Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Nicholas Bloom says requiring employees to be in the office is an outdated work tradition, set up during the Industrial Revolution. Such inflexibility ignores tod... Read more...
22 June 2017
France and Spain sense an opportunity as top professors seek employment outside Britain Luis Garicano arrived in the UK a decade ago to take up the role of professor of economics and strategy in the departm... Read more...
15 June 2017
Interview with Luis Garicano, head of citizen economy The same day he participates in a conference on the impact of Brexit at the Rafael del Pino Foundation, Luis Garicano (Valladolid, 1967) announces his p... Read more...
11 June 2017
Article by Ross Levine; Yona Rubinstein ISSN 0033-5533, EISSN 1531-4650. Related publications ‘In brief...'Smart and illicit': the making of a successful entrepreneur’ R... Read more...
25 May 2017
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...
17 May 2017
One reason for the weakness of earnings growth is the ferocious squeeze on public sector pay, which – stripped of bonus payments – is rising at just 1.3% a year. A second factor is that employers a... Read more...
Article by Joan Costa-i-font and Sara Flèche Sleep is often overlooked in economic models despite its obvious restorative effects on human health alongside its influence on brain plasticity and feeli... Read more...
06 April 2017
… 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...
16 March 2017
Youth and young adults are especially vulnerable to mental illness "We found, persistently and in all countries, that mental health problems are the leading causes of suffering", says Richard Laya... Read more...
15 March 2017
Getting the balance right A recent report by the LSE Growth Commission also warned that a world where everyone is their own boss could lead to less training, with consequences for UK living standards. ... Read more...
05 March 2017
The study is based on data about the life of 14 thousand. the British families. Was collected from the birth of a child in the family up to the 25 years of his life. Applications have developed Joan Costa-and-... Read more...
28 February 2017
In the first study of its kind, Joan Costa-i-Font and Sarah Flèche, of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, have found that baby-induced fatigue i... Read more...
25 February 2017
When Joan Costa-Font became a father, the health economist noticed a dramatic drop in his productivity. “And I am the man,” he said, acknowledging that the effect was clearly worse on his wife. ... Read more...
17 February 2017
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...
31 January 2017
Moreover, the recent “Robots at Work” study carried out by Uppsala University and the London School of Economics (LSE), found that, as of 1993, the U.K. ranked eighth out of 17 developed countries ... Read more...
17 November 2016
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...
16 November 2016
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...
07 October 2016
[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...
06 October 2016
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...
05 October 2016
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...
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...
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...
Economic migrants are seen as a threat to jobs and the welfare state. The reality is more complex Until quite recently the academic literature treated migrants as substitutes for native workers. But what if they were co... Read more...
01 October 2016
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...
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...
23 August 2016
Thousands of 16-year-olds are stuck in an educational ''revolving door'', returning year after year to study low-level qualifications, a major new study has found. The Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) at ... Read more...
19 August 2016
John Van Reenen, professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, agreed. ''The natural explanation of the stable college premium is that the rise in the supply of graduates has been balanced by an increa... Read more...
18 August 2016
More jobs but lower living standards: that's been how most people have experienced Britain's economic performance since the financial crisis. ... The London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance has referr... Read more...
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...
07 August 2016
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...
06 August 2016
We are joined by Swati Dhingra to give us an expert view on the migrant spike. The interview was broadcast by the Voice of Islam Radio on August 2, 2016 Link to the show podcast here Related publications Brexit and... Read more...
02 August 2016
However, mounting evidence suggests that the gains from free trade are not shared equally. A body of research on the American economy shows that import competition from poor countries can depress the incomes of the low s... Read more...
30 July 2016
Immigration was at the heart of the Brexit debate. In this video, Barbara Petrongolo discusses different policies the UK could implement in terms of immigration. This video is part of the ''Econ after Brexit'' series org... Read more...
14 July 2016
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...
05 July 2016
For many it is a windfall: according to the research of the Centre for Economic Performance, a research centre, EU migrants are more likely, compared to the local population, to have received a university education or to... Read more...
01 July 2016
John Van Reenen, head of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, said that Britain's Brexit decision will have both short-term and long-term consequences. ''There is a lot of uncertainty ab... Read more...
David Metcalf writes about the Migration Advisory Committee's review of the shortage occupation list The MAC recommends placing nurses on the country's 'shortage occupation list' or 'SOL': they are skilled, in shortage ... Read more...
29 June 2016
Why did so many millions of people vote to leave the European Union? ... Some new research by the labour market economists Brian Bell and Stephen Machin, seen by The Independent, suggests the Leave vote tended to be big... Read more...
26 June 2016
Labour MPs now walk around saying that immigration reduces domestic wages, that the rich man has got a cheaper plumber, but the indigenous plumber has had to reduce his fees. Usually this argument is framed as an assault... Read more...
25 June 2016
According to an analysis, Brexit and the impact on immigration, published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, EU immigrants are ''more educated, younger, more likely to be in work an... Read more...
24 June 2016
''You're going to see in increase in consumer prices from Brexit and most of that is going to hit the middle income,'' Swati Dhingra, assistant professor at LSE's Department of Economics and Centre for Economic Performan... Read more...
A feeling of anger and frustration with the European Union is strongest in areas of Britain that have seen wages stagnate in recent years, according to research commissioned by the Financial Times. Two leading labour... Read more...
23 June 2016
Three leading British economists have warned that leaving the EU would 'almost certainly' damage the UK's economic prospects. The trio, Jagjit Chadha, the director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Resear... Read more...
20 June 2016
Last year, a report from the Bank of England supported his comment, suggesting that the wages of low-paid employees in catering, hospitality and care have been driven down by increased competition from EU workers. How... Read more...
15 June 2016
Financial engineering has created a rentier class, a modern feudal system, and the biggest beneficiaries of all that extra debt have been the bankers. John Van Reenen and Brian Bell, of the Centre for Economic Performanc... Read more...
11 June 2016
A bad few days for the image of Britain's retail sector PARLIAMENTARY committees are normally sleepy affairs. Backbench MPs get the chance to grill the occasional bigwig. By replying to questions succinctly witnesses ty... Read more...
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...
09 June 2016
Pro-EU forces have warned that if Britain votes to exit the union on June 23, the country could lose almost a million jobs. Recruiters say the damage has already begun. ''Companies are pushing the pause button,'' said Ki... Read more...
The claim: Trade union umbrella body the TUC says leaving the EU would cut average earnings by £38 per week by 2030. Reality Check verdict: The TUC has taken other bodies' forecasts that leaving the EU would lea... Read more...
01 June 2016
The LSE's Centre for Economic Performance said earlier this month that a reduction in immigration into the U.K. if the country votes for a Brexit wouldn't lead to any improvement in living standards for those born in Bri... Read more...
31 May 2016
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...
26 May 2016
The most recent research from the centre for economic performance at the London School of Economics says ''the areas of the UK with large increases in EU immigration did not suffer greater falls in the jobs and pay of UK... Read more...
20 May 2016
Em uma entrevista ao jornal Financial Times, o professor Alan Manning, da London School of Economics, diz que em sua visao sobre a historia dos salarios minimos, ele sempre se surpreendeu com como e possivel aumenta-lo s... Read more...
16 May 2016
EU immigration to the UK has not harmed British peoples' access to jobs, public services or incomes, a major study has concluded. The report, by the London School of Economics, has dispelled a number of 'myths' or miscon... Read more...
12 May 2016
There is little evidence that more migrants push wages down or unemployment up. Economists from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics say that when they look at the areas with the largest ... Read more...
I've become extremely pessimistic about the Leave campaign lately as it has latched on to Faragist arguments about immigration as a major reason to get out of the EU. This is not just naive liberalism - on virtually eve... Read more...
Research blames 2008 recession for lower real salaries rather than rise in foreign workers, adding they paid more into UK economy than they took out The rapid increase in migration from other EU countries has not had an... Read more...
11 May 2016
Contrary to what some believe, inequality, wages and job opportunities for British-born citizens have not been negatively impacted by the recent surge in migrants from the EU, a new study suggests. Published by the... Read more...
Article by Jonathan Wadsworth, Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano and John Van Reenen A major argument of the campaign to leave the EU is that Brexit would give the UK more control over the flow of immigrants from acros... Read more...
State of Working Britain blog, article posted by Jonathan Wadsworth Immigration has for some years been the uppermost worry among the issues thought to be facing Britain in many opinion polls so it - or rather people's... Read more...
A reduction in immigration into the U.K. if the country votes to leave the European Union next month wouldn't lead to any improvement in living standards for those born in Britain, according to research from the London S... Read more...
If graduates are feeling like they never get any better off, despite having a degree, maybe that's because they really are getting poorer. The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics has descri... Read more...
27 April 2016
Leaving the EU would cause Britain's economy to shrink and tax receipts to plummet, and cost the average household thousands of pounds a year, an official analysis from the UK treasury has warned. The treasury assess... Read more...
18 April 2016
Article by Jonathan Wadsworth Welcome back. The Bank of England has a regular labour market commentary in its quarterly bulletin in which it looks at issues that may influence productivity, wage pressure and hence infla... Read more...
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...
07 April 2016
Cornell's Richard Burkhauser has co-authored (with Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Nattavudh Powdthavee of CEP) a research paper that contends a person's satisfaction drops as the percentage of overall income held by the very r... Read more...
06 April 2016
There is a wage premium for getting a first or upper second, find Shqiponja Telhaj and colleagues Since the early 1960s, with developments in the field of human capital research, analysis of the returns to education has... Read more...
01 April 2016
A vote to leave the European Union in the June 23 referendum could hamper efforts to make it easier and cheaper to do business in the bloc, potentially costing service providers billions of pounds, analysts an... Read more...
31 March 2016
David Cameron has mocked eurosceptics for failing to work together as a new report claims each British family pays £200 a year less thanks to the European Union. ... Meanwhile a report produced by the Centre for E... Read more...
A research paper by Richard Burkhauser, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Nattavudh Powdthavee contends that a person's satisfaction drops as the percentage of overall income held by the very rich in a country rises. However, the... Read more...
''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...
29 March 2016
Hunt argues that, with the NHS budget already under huge pressure, funding levels can only be maintained if the British economy remains strong. He cites a series of economic surveys, including from the CBI, the London Sc... Read more...
26 March 2016
The Centre for Economic Performance at LSE released a report last week that also states that British living standards and trade will be damaged if an ''out'' vote wins the referendum. In their research, the body states t... Read more...
22 March 2016
'We are required to help refugees despite costs' De opvang van de vluchtelingen zal de Europese welvaartsstaten niet onder druk zetten. Dat stellen twee topprofessoren in het onderzoek naar migratie, Klaus Zimmermann en... Read more...
15 March 2016
Looking into FDI (foreign direct investment), the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance determined that if the UK could reach favorable free trade agreements with the EU after a Brexit, it will lose... Read more...
And it is a global problem: wage growth has been weak throughout the world for almost a decade. ''In the last seven to eight years, wage growth has been very disappointing in the world,'' says John Van Reenen, director o... Read more...
John Van Reenen discusses why wages aren't growing. The interview was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 News on March 13, 2016 Link to interview here Also ran on BBC World Service Linda Yueh interview John Van Reenen discus... Read more...
13 March 2016
John Van Reenen discusses a decade of weak wage growth worldwide and its consequences This interview was broadcast by BBC World News on March 8, 2016 Link to interview here Also on WUWM-FM , WUNC-FM, WBFO-FM, NPR/Na... Read more...
08 March 2016
John Van Reenen interviewed, giving his expert opinion on falling income levels. This interview was broadcast by the BBC World Service programme 'The Inquiry' on March 8, 2016 Link to interview here Related links Jo... Read more...
David Blanchflower and Stephen Machin, in a report for the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, don't rule out a return to 4%-plus wage rises at some point. It was the norm before the 2008 banking... Read more...
06 March 2016
In the latest State of Working Britain blog, editor Professor Jonathan Wadsworth writes: Common Mis-Perceptions About Recent UK Labour Market Performance No 1. A Record number of people in work The opening sentenc... Read more...
01 March 2016
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...
26 February 2016
Latest State of Working Britain blog by Jonathan Wadsworth The central message is that it would be wrong to conclude from analysis of the net change in employment that migrants take all new jobs. Rather the net change i... Read more...
09 February 2016
The opportunity to automjate UK workplaces does not necessarily mean huge unemployment and lower pay as machines take over. The claims came in presentations ahead of the Automatica Robotics Trade Show, and aimed to highl... Read more...
08 February 2016
Article by Jonathan Wadsworth Some commentators have suggested that the latest upswing has been characterised by a greater share of low skilled jobs in the recovery compared to previous upturns. If so then we can all bl... Read more...
02 February 2016
In the first of a new blog from LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, Jonathan Wadsworth comments on the issue of full employment in the UK. This article was published online by the CEP's The State of Working Britain b... Read more...
26 January 2016
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...
20 January 2016
Jeni Ruiz-Valenzuela's blog article on the negative effect of fathers' unemployment on their children based on Spain's great recession. This article was published by The Nada es Gratis blog (Spain) on January 13, 2016 ... Read more...
13 January 2016
Article by David Metcalf Would it be sensible to fill vacancies by attracting extra nurses from outside of the EU? These are the main questions the home secretary asked the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to examine ... Read more...
16 December 2015
Robots are gradually becoming a part of everyday life, and as a result are impacting on the economy. To look at the influence robots are having, Joe Aldridge speaks with Guy Michaels, Associate Professor at the London Sc... Read more...
12 October 2015
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...
06 October 2015
A third FE research centre has launched just a year after Professor Lady Alison Wolf decried how the sector was ''woefully short of good, up-to-date research''. ... The work of the new centre, said Mr Grainger, would co... Read more...
05 October 2015
Professor Alan Manning of the London School of Economics has studied unemployment in former industrial areas and says every city needs the equivalent of an export sector - something to bring money from outside the area,... Read more...
04 October 2015
We already have two sets of pioneering work being undertaken in the UK to address this very problem. One is the JPMorgan Foundation funded work at the Institute of Public Policy Research working with US business Burning ... Read more...
30 September 2015
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...
29 September 2015
Uppsala University's Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels from the London School of Economics looked at productivity ... The interview was published online by Eagle Radio News on September 2, 2015 [Link unavailable] Relate... Read more...
02 September 2015
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...
01 September 2015
Two economics professors have studied the impact the machines have had on employment, and their findings painted a positive picture. Uppsala University's Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels from the London School of Economics ... Read more...
...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...
In any recession, young people tend to suffer first. Moreover, unemployment among 16-24-year-olds was edging up even before the financial crisis. Youngsters have since faced a ''double whammy'' of scarcity of work and fa... Read more...
20 August 2015
Article by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels The authors say that: ''Industrial robots boost productivity and growth, but effect on jobs is an open question''. This article was published online by the LSE Business Review o... Read more...
13 August 2015
A study by researchers at the London School of Economics earlier this year found that immigration to Britain has not increased unemployment or reduced wages. This article was published by The Gulf Today on August 11, 20... Read more...
11 August 2015
On average, sexual-minority adults are more likely to be single, tend to have worse health and are less likely to be employed than heterosexuals, say Nattavudh Powdthavee of the London School of Economics and Mark Wooden... Read more...
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...
10 August 2015
Article by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels Robots may seem dangerous not only to cinema action heroes but also to the average manufacturing worker. To assess whether such concerns are well founded, Guy Michaels and Georg ... Read more...
Robots and automated processes have become a feature of many modern workplaces, but what impact do such innovations have on productivity and jobs? Using a new dataset, Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels present an analysis of... Read more...
05 August 2015
Guy Michaels of the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, discusses the use of robots in industry. This interview was broadcast by Share Radio on August 2, 2015 [No link available] Related publications Robots at work... Read more...
02 August 2015
Dr Christos Genakos, of the London School of Economics, studied the impact of decisions to ease Sunday trading rules in 30 European countries between 1999 and 2013. He found the reforms boosted net employment by 7-9 per ... Read more...
08 July 2015
A February study by economists Georg Graetz of Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics (LSE), using data from the International Federation of Robotics, has shown that robots of the same qual... Read more...
01 July 2015
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...
23 June 2015
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. Researchers analyzed for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, us... Read more...
20 June 2015
Scientists Georg Graetz of the Uppsala University and Guy Michaels of the London School of Economics come to the following conclusion: the average over 10 percent of increase of the gross domestic product and 15 percent ... Read more...
19 June 2015
Professor Nicholas Bloom from the Department of Economics at Stanford University, with his graduate student James Liang, conducted an interesting experiment at Chinese travel website Ctrip's call center. Employees could ... Read more...
18 June 2015
In fact, there is not much evidence on how even today's automation is affecting employment. Guy Michaels and his colleague Georg Graetz at the London School of Economics recently looked at the impact of industrial robots... Read more...
16 June 2015
Provided in a new paper from London's Center for Economic Research [sic], the analysis offered by George Graetz and Guy Michaels of Uppsala University and the London School of Economics, respectively, offers some of the ... Read more...
Georg Graetz of the Swedish University of Uppsala, and Guy Michaels, of the London School of Economics, consider them, that the automation of services as the industry will perform well, but on one, or even two generation... Read more...
14 June 2015
Spain needs to strip away the barriers to creating high-quality jobs instead of focusing on budget cutting if the country is to tackle its deficit problem, according to Luis Garicano, the economic policy chief at pro-mar... Read more...
04 June 2015
Article by Keyu Jin Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang recently cited job creation as vital to his country's ''ultimate goal of stability in growth''. His observation could not be more accurate. In fact, one of the mos... Read more...
Corporate greed isn't good, but it might not be as bad for inequality as we thought - or at least not in the way we thought. Now it seems pretty obvious that inequality must have something to do with executive pay. After... Read more...
29 May 2015
Few politicians have a credible plan to ensure that Britain's young people can make their way in the world. But Labour at least recognises the problem. In the UK too, as LSE's Steve Machin argues, ''productivity improvem... Read more...
29 March 2015
According to Bank of England, earnings should be rising by 4 percent a year, but they are struggling to get above 2 percent - it is time the government and employers tilted wages in favour of labour. There was a time, ... Read more...
The economist Alan Manning recently gave a public lecture at the London School of Economics, where he drew parallels between the Equal Pay Act and the minimum wage, pointing out that in both cases theoretical concerns we... Read more...
27 March 2015
Article by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels Robots' capacity for autonomous movement and their ability to perform an expanding set of tasks have captured writers' imaginations for almost a century. Recently robots have eme... Read more...
18 March 2015
A new study of 17 countries published this week found the introduction of robots to the workplace increased economic growth by 0.37 percentage points and labor productivity by a similar margin. What's more, ''no signific... Read more...
11 March 2015
Article by Brian Bell, Anna Bindler and Stephen Machin Recessions can lead to an increase in youth unemployment, which could later negatively affect labour market outcomes. This column explores the effect of recessions ... Read more...
04 March 2015
Alan Manning, an economist at the London School of Economics, takes issue with the assertion that economic trends observed in the US are caused by technological unemployment. While he agrees US data shows rising producti... Read more...
09 February 2015
Stephen Machin, professor of Economics at University College London, says, ''Creating jobs with decent pay as innovative technologies evolve is a challenge, given the UK's traditional difficulties in generating good jobs... Read more...
28 January 2015
Economist Stephen Machin, a professor at University College London said: ''Creating jobs with decent pay as innovative technologies evolve is a challenge given the UK's traditional difficulties in generating good jobs fo... Read more...
20 January 2015
ESRC-funded research provided crucial evidence for the introduction of a UK National Minimum Wage in 1999, encompassing 1.3 million workers in 2013. The research was cited prior to minimum wage legislation in Hong Kong i... Read more...
19 January 2015
Britain will not run out of scope to create jobs in 2015 and will therefore not reach full employment, a slender majority of economists believe. But the number of people in work is likely to rise and unemployment will fa... Read more...
01 January 2015
It is generally agreed that firms can improve their employees' wellbeing through improvements in job quality - but is it in their economic interests to do so? This column reports research showing that satisfied employee... Read more...
17 November 2014
To see my point, consider this paper by Alex Bryson and George MacKerron. They show that I'm not unusual. They asked people at random times of the day how happy they were and what they were doing. They found that people ... Read more...
14 November 2014
What if in our relatively deregulated flexible labour market-where the balance of workplace power favours bosses, many people are engaged on flexible performance-based contracts, and new technology is sweeping away jobs ... Read more...
13 November 2014
Much attention of researchers and policy-makers has been directed at the effects of immigration on the wages and employment of natives in the host country (for example, Friedberg and Hunt 1995; Manacorda et al 2012; Dust... Read more...
05 November 2014
The more persistent problems are stagnant pay and insecure employment terms. But these problems, too, are heavily concentrated on the young. British labor market experts Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin calculate that where... Read more...
21 August 2014
What's the best way to measure Europe's youth unemployment problem? ''Long-term unemployment and youth unemployment are the two [issues] that need more targeting, but we should especially try to avoid the combination of ... Read more...
16 July 2014
Article by Christopher Pissarides The Need For Social Dialogue To Improve Distribution Eurofound stands for Improvement of Living and Working Conditions through social dialogue. Currently, in the midst of high unemploy... Read more...
23 June 2014
For the market to maintain the flexibility that is needed, the matching of workers to jobs should be as efficient as possible. Government, business and the education sector need to do more to make this happen. It is faci... Read more...
17 June 2014
Abgesehen davon gibt es generelle MaBnahmen, die sowohl den Einwanderern, als auch den Einheimischen selbst zugute kommen. Richard Layard wirbt beispielsweise für eine fortschrittliche Steuerpolitik, um die wirtschaftli... Read more...
16 June 2014
48 per cent of European adults between 18 and 30 now live with their parents, an increase from 44 per cent at the onset of the economic crisis in 2007. But the highest number is in Italy, with 79 per cent. That's up from... Read more...
27 April 2014
The Great Recession has brought with it a significant increase in the long-term unemployed. This is especially concerning as long-term unemployment has detrimental effects on the individuals involved, affecting mental an... Read more...
22 October 2013
Combatting Unemployment is a collection of key papers from seminal labour economists Richard Layard and Stephen J. Nickell. The authors received the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2008 for their path-breaking wor... Read more...
19 May 2011