Employment
Research on the world of work, the creation and destruction of jobs, and the consequences of unemployment.
Employment has been at the core of CEP's work since it was founded in 1990. Research in this area includes looking at the causes and consequences of unemployment and how to combat it. Early CEP research, showing that improving the way workers were matched to job vacancies could lower unemployment, was used to underpin the New Deal for Young People adopted by the Labour government in 1998.
CEP associate Christopher Pissarides was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work with Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen on the analysis of labour markets with search frictions - addressing the question of why job seekers and vacancies co-exist.
CEP researchers also investigate the changing nature of work: including the rise of the gig economy, the impact of technology, the polarisation between high and low-paid work, and the gender pay gap.
Featured Work
Employment Publications
Jiaqi Li, Anna Valero and Guglielmo Ventura
18 January 2021
Josh De Lyon and Joao Paulo Pessoa
11 January 2021
Chad Bown, Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar and Lorenzo Trimarchi
6 January 2021
Claudia Hupkau, Ingo Isphording, Stephen Machin and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
21 December 2020
Tom Kirchmaier and Carmen Villa-Llera
17 December 2020
Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel
11 December 2020
Jonathan Wadsworth
30 November 2020
Hanming Fang, Chunmian Ge, Hanwei Huang and Hongbin Li
19 November 2020
Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo
10 November 2020
Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura
10 November 2020
Sascha O. Becker, Stephan Heblich and Daniel M. Sturm
1 November 2020
Pia Andres, Giorgia Cecchinato, Penny Mealy, Charlotte Taylor, Sam Unsworth and Anna Valero
19 October 2020
Tito Boeri, Giulia Giupponi, Alan B. Krueger and Stephen Machin
1 October 2020
Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
1 September 2020
Brian Bell, Mihai Codreanu and Stephen Machin
17 August 2020
Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Henry Overman
1 August 2020
Elias Einiö and Henry Overman
1 July 2020
Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin
28 May 2020
Jack Blundell and Stephen Machin
22 May 2020
Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo
14 May 2020
Brian Bell, Nicholas Bloom and Jack Blundell
18 April 2020
Andrew E. Clark and Anthony Lepinteur
16 April 2020
Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
1 January 2020
Janine Boshoff, Jamie Moore and Stefan Speckesser
25 November 2019
Rui Costa and Stephen Machin
21 November 2019
Nitika Bagaria, Felix Koenig, Barbara Petrongolo and John Van Reenen
1 November 2019
Monica Langella and Alan Manning
18 August 2019
Monica Langella and Alan Manning
26 July 2019
Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin
28 June 2019
Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Henry Overman
6 March 2019
Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman and John Van Reenen
1 January 2019
Giulia Giupponi and Camille Landais
3 December 2018
Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Duncan Roth
1 November 2018
Christian A. L. Hilber and Olivier Schöni
10 July 2018
Michael Amior and Alan Manning
1 July 2018
Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin
29 June 2018
Andrew E. Clark and Carine Milcent
1 April 2018
Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin
21 March 2018
Riccardo Crescenzi and Mara Giua
22 February 2018
Sascha O. Becker, Stephan Heblich and Daniel M. Sturm
4 January 2018
Brian Bell and Stephen Machin
1 January 2018
Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo
1 December 2017
Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, Matthieu Lequien and Stefanie Stantcheva
24 November 2017
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward
1 November 2017
Camille Landais, Arash Nekoei, Peter Nilsson, David Seim and Johannes Spinnewijn
16 October 2017
L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo
1 October 2017
Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo
1 October 2017
Stephen Gibbons, Henry Overman and Matti Sarvimäki
4 August 2017
Stephen Gibbons, Teemu Lyytikäinen, Henry Overman and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner
3 July 2017
Joan Costa-i-Font and Sarah Flèche
3 July 2017
Stephen Gibbons, Teemu Lyytikäinen, Henry Overman and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner
19 May 2017
Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels
1 May 2017
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward
30 March 2017
Joan Costa-Font and Sarah Flèche
10 February 2017
Franziska Hampf and Ludger Woessmann
23 November 2016
Alessandro Gavazza, Simon Mongey and Giovanni L. Violante
4 October 2016
Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo
1 October 2016
Swati Dhingra, Gianmarco Ottaviano, John Van Reenen and Jonathan Wadsworth
11 May 2016
Andrew B. Bernard, Valerie Smeets and Frederic Warzynski
12 April 2016
Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo
24 February 2016
Sarah Flèche and Richard Layard
22 February 2016
Elias Einiö and Henry G. Overman
9 February 2016
David Blanchflower and Stephen Machin
1 February 2016
Nicholas Bloom, Mirko Draca and John Van Reenen
1 January 2016
Céline Carrère, Anja Grujovic and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
10 December 2015
Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt
13 November 2015
Ferdinando Monte, Stephen J. Redding and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
11 November 2015
Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Nicolai Wendland
4 November 2015
Andrew E. Clark, Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Nattavudh Powdthavee and George Ward
28 October 2015
Brian Bell, Anna Bindler and Stephen Machin
30 July 2015
Jordi Jofri-Monseny, Maria Sánchez-Vidal and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal
13 July 2015
Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Peter Nilsson and Johannes Spinnewijn
8 July 2015
Michael Amior and Alan Manning
8 June 2015
Sarah Flèche and Richard Layard
3 June 2015
Ghazala Azmat, Brian Bell, Jonathan Colmer, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Swati Dhingra, Christian Hilber, Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, Ralf Martin, Alistair McGuire, Sandra McNally, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Henry Overman, Isabelle Roland, Thomas Sampson, Anna Valero, John Van Reenen, Jonathan Wadsworth, Gill Wyness and Gabriel Zucman
30 April 2015
Nitika Bagaria, Felix Koenig, Barbara Petrongolo and John Van Reenen
29 April 2015
Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo
20 February 2015
Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Ulrich J. Wagner and Laure B. de Preux
1 August 2014
Brian Bell, Anna Bindler and Stephen Machin
14 July 2014
Petri Bockerman, Alex Bryson, Christian Hakulinen, Jaakko Pehkonen, Laura Pulkki-Raback, Olli Raitakari and Jutta Viinikainen
20 June 2014
Chiara Criscuolo, Peter N. Gal and Carlo Menon
6 June 2014
Chiara Criscuolo, Peter N. Gal and Carlo Menon
6 June 2014
Francisco Costa, Jason Garred and Joao Paulo Pessoa
23 May 2014
David Blanchflower and Stephen Machin
8 May 2014
Dan Anderberg, Helmut Rainer, Jonathan Wadsworth and Tanya Wilson
5 February 2014
Ross Levine and Yona Rubinstein
10 December 2013
Ross Levine and Yona Rubinstein
28 August 2013
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Ed Diener, Louis Tay and Cody Xuereb
9 August 2013
Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg C. Wright
5 August 2013
Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez
1 August 2013
Dan Anderberg, Helmut Rainer, Jonathan Wadsworth and Tanya Wilson
25 July 2013
Christopher A. Pissarides
1 July 2013
Nattavudh Powdthavee
27 June 2013
Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen
5 June 2013
Christopher A. Pissarides
8 May 2013
Stephen Machin and John Van Reenen
29 October 2012
Nattavudh Powdthavee
19 October 2012
Ethan Ilzetzki and Jonathan Pinder
16 October 2012
Nattavudh Powdthavee and James Vernoit
14 September 2012
Stephen Gibbons, Teemu Lyytikäinen, Henry Overman and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner
7 September 2012
Nitika Bagaria, Dawn Holland and John Van Reenen
3 August 2012
Giulia Faggio and Henry G. Overman
14 June 2012
Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg C. Wright
24 May 2012
Giulia Faggio and Olmo Silva
22 May 2012
Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry Overman and John Van Reenen
21 May 2012
Ian Gordon and Ioannis Kaplanis
4 May 2012
Tony Champion and Alan Townsend
24 April 2012
Pascal Michaillat
24 January 2012
Ioannis Kaplanis and Vassilis Monastiriotis
20 January 2012
Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman and John Van Reenen
Revised January 2016
Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman and John Van Reenen
10 January 2012
Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri
1 October 2011
Camille Landais, Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez
21 September 2011
Michael W. L. Elsby, Jennifer C. Smith and Jonathan Wadsworth
July 2011
Nicholas Bloom, Mirko Draca and John Van Reenen
January 2011
Alex Bryson and John Forth
December 2010
Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding
December 2010
Peter Dolton, Chiara Rosazza-Bondibene and Jonathan Wadsworth
October 2010
Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth
July 2010
Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth
June 2010
Barbara Petrongolo and John Van Reenen
Revised November 2011
L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher A. Pissarides
December 2009
Tony Champion and Alan Townsend
October 2009
Yann Algan, Christian Dustmann, Albrecht Glitz and Alan Manning
October 2009
Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding
July 2009
Tomer Blumkin, Yossi Hadar and Eran Yashiv
February 2009
Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and P Willman
August 2008
Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen
May 2008
David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson
April 2008
Alex Bryson and Satu Nurmi
April 2008
Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo
1 February 2008
L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher A. Pissarides
February 2008
Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher A. Pissarides
February 2008
Javier Ortega and Laurence Rioux
January 2008
Christopher A. Pissarides
November 2007
Jean-Baptiste Michau
November 2007
Espen R. Moen and A Rosen
November 2007
Giorgio Gobbi and Roberta Zizza
April 2007
Maarten Goos and Alan Manning
1 February 2007
Christopher A. Pissarides
October 2006
Alex Bryson and Richard Freeman
July 2006
Giulia Faggio and Stephen Nickell
June 2006
Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell and Richard Jackman
1 August 2005
Richard Dickens and Mirko Draca
June 2005
Jo Blanden, Stephen Machin and John Van Reenen
May 2005
Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo
March 2005
Andrew Clark and Fabien Postel-Vinay
February 2005
Christopher A. Pissarides and Giovanna Vallanti
December 2004
Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir and John Van Reenen
1 June 2004
Fabiano Schivardi and Roberto Torrini
May 2004
Johannes Hörner, L. Rachel Ngai and Claudia Olivetti
January 2004
Ghazala Azmat, Maia Güell and Alan Manning
January 2004
Christopher A. Pissarides
December 2003
Paul Gregg, Maria Gutierrez-Domenech and Jane Waldfogel
December 2003
Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen and Peter K. Schott
September 2003
Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher A. Pissarides
June 2003
Melvyn Coles and Barbara Petrongolo
June 2003
Maria Gutierrez-Domenech
May 2003
David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald
1 January 2003
Maria Gutierrez-Domenech
September 2002
Fabrice Collard, Raquel Fonseca and Rafael Munoz
July 2002
Christopher A. Pissarides
March 2002
Stephen Nickell, Luca Nunziata, Wolfgang Ochel and Glenda Quintini
July 2001
Simon Burgess and Stefan Profit
April 2001
Patricia Tracy Jones, Stephen Nickell and Glenda Quintini
November 2000
Simon Burgess and H Turon
November 2000
Brian Bell, Stephen Nickell and Glenda Quintini
September 2000
Stephen Nickell and Luca Nunziata
March 2000
Richard Dickens, Stephen Machin and Alan Manning
1 January 1999
Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides
1 July 1994