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Chapter
Housing
in Policy Landscape 2023

What are the public policy challenges confronting the UK? What plans do the parties have for addressing them? To what extent are these plans fit for purpose? As Parliament returns from its summer recess, Full Fact and U...Read more...

Paul Cheshire

5 September 2023

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The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth: some lessons from the first ten years
in The What Works Centres: lessons and insights from an evidence movement

What can policy do to increase local economic growth? This is a question that has challenged decision makers and academics for decades. It's also a fundamental question today, when the UK government has made economic gro...Read more...

Danielle Mason, Max Nathan and Henry G. Overman

28 April 2023

Chapter
Families, labor markets, and policy
in Handbook of the Economics of the Family

Handbook of the Economics of the Family, Volume One includes comprehensive surveys of the current state of the economics literaure in the field, prepared by leading scholars, with a particular empahsis on the most recent...Read more...

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

1 April 2023

Chapter
Life cycle assessment of recycling systems
in Roadmap for a sustainable circular economy in lithium-ion and future battery technologies

The market dynamics, and their impact on a future circular economy for lithium-ion batteries (LIB), are presented in this roadmap, with safety as an integral consideration throughout the life cycle. At the point of end-o...Read more...

Qiang Dai, Robert J.R. Elliott, Gavin Harper, Oliver Heidrich, Viet Nguyen-Tien and Margaret Slattery

20 February 2023

Chapter
Curriculum and ideology: evidence from China
in Nation building: big lessons from successes and failures

This book presents a synthesis of key recent advances in political-economy research on the various approaches and strategies used in the process of building nations throughout modern history. The book is comprised of 26 ...Read more...

Davide Cantoni, David Y. Yang and Noam Yuchtman

14 February 2023

Chapter
Educational inequality
in Handbook of the economics of education

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socioeconomi...Read more...

Jo Blanden, Matthias Doepke and Jan Stuhler

1 January 2023

Chapter
The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth: some lessons from the first ten years
in The What Works Centres: lessons and insights from an evidence movement

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1 January 2023

Chapter
Accelerating urban economic growth in Ukraine
in Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and policies

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of what Ukraine should become after the war and what tools policymakers can use to fulfill these goals. The leitmotif of this book is clear: reconstruction is not about rebuildin...Read more...

Richard K. Green, J. Vernon Henderson, Matthew E. Kahn, Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy and Andrii Parkhomenko

7 December 2022

Chapter
Housing policy and affordable housing
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance

Lack of affordable housing is a growing and often primary policy concern in cities throughout the world. The main underlying cause for the "affordability crisis," which has been mounting for decades, is a combination of ...Read more...

Christian A. L. Hilber and Olivier Schöni

22 November 2022

Chapter
Firms and finance during the green transition
in Scaling up sustainable finance and investment in the global south

Creating economically and politically legitimate solutions to tackle climate change is one of the most pressing and challenging issues of our time. For emerging and developing economies, the task is made more difficult d...Read more...

Ralph De Haas, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls and Helena Schweiger

1 November 2022

Chapter
Accounting for consequences and claims in policy
in Wellbeing: Alternative policy perspectives

Fully appraising any policy requires us to capture all of its ripple effects and not simply the size of the splash when the pebble of intervention hits the water. It also requires that we weight the value of those effect...Read more...

Paul Dolan

30 August 2022

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Wellbeing as the goal of policy
in Wellbeing: Alternative policy perspectives

When policy-makers have multiple objectives, they still need an over-arching criterion which determines the importance of the different objectives. The most reasonable criterion is the wellbeing of the population. Fortun...Read more...

Richard Layard

30 August 2022

Chapter
Research and innovation policies for the green transition
in Science, research and innovation performance of the EU 2022

This chapter provides a selective review of policies that can help foster a transition towards green technologies. R&I are crucial to tackling sustainability challenges, and public policies are needed to direct technolog...Read more...

Eugenie Dugoua

1 August 2022

Chapter
Returns to vocational education and training
in Handbook of labor, human resources and population economics

What are the consequences of choosing the vocational track over the general or academic track in upper secondary education? This review discusses the evidence for this. It first sets out the arguments for and against voc...Read more...

Sandra McNally, Guglielmo Ventura and Hanna Virtanen

29 July 2022

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Industrial policy and competition
in Globalization, Firms, and Workers

Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2007, we show that industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase producti...Read more...

Philippe Aghion, Jing Cai, Mathias Dewatripont, Luosha Du, Ann Harrison and Patrick Legros

1 July 2022

Chapter
The impact of Brexit on UK-EU trade
in The Economics of Brexit: What Have We Learned?

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Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson

23 June 2022

Chapter
Post-Brexit imports, supply chains, and the effect on consumer prices
in The Economics of Brexit: What Have We Learned?

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Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Josh De Lyon, Luisa Opitz and Dilan Yang

23 June 2022

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On the employment consequences of automation and offshoring
in Robots and AI - a new economic era

We argue that automation may make workers and firms more selective in matching their specialized skills and tasks. We call this phenomenon "core-biased technological change", and wonder whether something similar could be...Read more...

Ester Faia, Sebastien Laffitte, Maximilian Mayer and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano

13 June 2022

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The effects of automation on labor demand: a survey of the recent literature
in Robots and AI - a new economic era

Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful forces that will likely have large impacts on the size, direction, and composition of international trade flows. This book discusses how industrial robots, automation,...Read more...

Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel

13 June 2022

Chapter
Temporal flexibility, breaks at work, and the motherhood wage gap
in Mothers in the labor market

We analyze the relationship between temporal flexibility at work (i.e., the ability to vary or change the time of beginning or ending work) and the motherhood wage gap of working parents, in the US. To that end, we first...Read more...

Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, Jose Alberto Molina and Almudena Sevilla

25 May 2022

Chapter
The backlash of globalization
in Handbook of International Economics

We review the literature on the globalization backlash, seen as the political shift of voters and parties in a protectionist and isolationist direction, with substantive implications on governments' leaning and enacted p...Read more...

Italo Colantone, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Piero Stanig

18 March 2022

Chapter
Evolving city systems
in Urbanization and development

Leading scholars in urban economics examine the data and definitions associated with the field, and look in-depth at the economic and social consequences of urbanization. Special focus is given to urban violence, and pla...Read more...

Henry G. Overman and Anthony J. Venables

28 October 2010

Chapter
Wage arrears and inequality in the distribution of pay: lessons from Russia
in Aspects of Worker Well-Being

Many developing and transition countries, and even some in the industrialized West, experience periods in which a substantial proportion of the workforce suffer wage arrears. We examine the implications for estimates of ...Read more...

Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth

21 May 2007

Chapter
Education expansion and intergenerational mobility in Britain
in Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem

Leading researchers from the United States and Europe report on new findings on the effect of education on equal opportunity, using economic and statistical techniques to assess the results of education policy reform in ...Read more...

Stephen Machin

1 May 2007

Chapter
Changes in intergenerational mobility in Britain
in Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe

What economic regimes offer children born into poor families the best hope of moving into higher income groups? This study analyzes and contrasts the experience of the more free market based North American and British ec...Read more...

Jo Blanden, Alissa Goodman, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin

1 December 2004

Chapter
Mobility and joblessness
in Seeking A Premier Economy: The Economic Effects Of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000

The perceived impact of location on economic opportunity has been a constant refrain in discussions of the economic performance of the United Kingdom for as long as anyone can remember and the source of much feeling th...Read more...

Paul Gregg, Stephen Machin and Alan Manning

1 June 2004