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CEP report
Employability And Exclusion: What Governments Can Do

An edited version of a major one day conference hosted by the Centre for Economic Performance ahead of the Birmingham G8 Summit in May. Contributors include:Rt Hon. David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education and Em...Read more...

Peter Robinson

May 1998

CEP report
Literacy, Numeracy And Economic Performance

Robinson raises a series of questions about the Government's priorities, challenging the key policies of target-setting and raising average achievement. (The Times). This report, which attracted much media coverage, exa...Read more...

Peter Robinson

September 1997

CEP discussion paper
Measure for Measure: A Critical note on the National Targets for Education and Training and International Comparisons of Educational Attainment

The National Education and Training Targets appear to dominate the public policy debate, though outside of policy making and influencing circles they are in fact little known. This paper argues that the definition of and...Read more...

Peter Robinson

July 1997

CEP discussion paper
The Myth of Parity of Esteem: Earnings and Qualifications

There is no parity of esteem between academic and vocational qualifications in the labour market. Data from the Labour Force Survey show that on average men and women working full-time with academic qualifications at one...Read more...

Peter Robinson

July 1997

CEP discussion paper
Qualifications and the Labour Market in Britain: 1984-1994 Skill Biased Change in the Demand for Labour or Credentialism?

The paper looks at the change in the occupational and educational structure of employment in Britain over the period 1984 94. It shows that changes in the occupational structure of employment can only explain a modest pa...Read more...

Marco Manacorda and Peter Robinson

February 1997

CEP discussion paper
Water Under the Bridge: Changes in Employment in Britain and the OECD

Evidence is presented for the UK, the US and France that the pace of change in the structure of employment by occupation has not been accelerating. Changes in the occupational structure of employment are taken to proxy c...Read more...

Peter Robinson

February 1997

CentrePiece article
The education debate: have we got our priorities right?

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Peter Robinson

June 1996

CEP report
Rhetoric And Reality: Britain's New Vocational Qualifications

Based on research commissioned by the Gatsby Foundation, this report examines the impact of the new systems of vocational qualifications and provoked a lively debate in the letters pages of the Financial Times....Read more...

Peter Robinson

January 1996

CEP discussion paper
The British Disease Overcome? Living Standards

The paper sets out two things. Firstly, average living standards in Britain are not that far out of line with other Western European countries. One source of data shows that by 193 the gap in manufacturing productivity b...Read more...

Peter Robinson

August 1995

CEP discussion paper
The Decline of the Swedish Model and the Limits to Active Labour Market Policy

The paper argues that the 1990-93 recession in Sweden offered a natural experiment to test hypotheses about Sweden's success in maintaining low unemployment in the 1980s. The paper identifies a fundamental shift in the ...Read more...

Peter Robinson

August 1995

CEP discussion paper
Is there an Explanation for Rising Pay Inequality in the UK?

This paper uses the Census, the General Household and New Earnings Surveys, and OECD data, to look at trends in the dispersion of pay and the returns to education, the supply of and demand for different types of labour a...Read more...

Peter Robinson

August 1994

CEP discussion paper
The British Labour Market in Historical Perspective: Changes in the Structure of Employment and Unemployment

The paper uses Department of Employment data, the New Earnings, General Household and Labour Force Surveys and the Census of Population to look at changes in the structure of employment and unemployment in Britain over t...Read more...

Peter Robinson

July 1994