In the Summer 2003 edition of CentrePiece:

In this edition:

All is not equal

Theory suggests that market forces should bring the relative pay of skilled workers into line in different regions within a country. Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding, Peter Schott and Helen Simpson show that this is not t... Read more...

Clearing the jungle

Hilary Steedman and John West present a manifesto to raise vocational education in Britain to the reputation that it enjoys in other European countries. Read more...

Good practice needs a helping hand

Howard Gospel and Jim Foreman look at four examples of employer-led industrial training that are working well and argue that such initiatives need more initial help from government. Read more...

Very early evidence

How early can we predict future educational achievement? Leon Feinstein examines the links between pre-school tests, social class and final academic levels. Read more...

Five years of the ECB

Peter Kenen looks back on the lessons to be learned from the early experience of European monetary union and concludes that it is paying too much attention to monetary aggregates. Read more...