Blog and updates
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30 Aug 2016
Resource curse: How being located near mines hurts manufacturers
Producers of tradable goods close to areas of mining activity have lower sales because of infrastructure bottlenecks and competition for workers, but the revenue that mines generate improves the...
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29 Aug 2016
The Green Revolution and Long Term Economic Growth
The spread of high-yielding crop varieties developed through conventional plant breeding may have led, directly or indirectly, to four-fifths of all economic growth achieved in the developing world...
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28 Aug 2016
New evidence on financial cycles
Financial cycles are long – on average twice the length of business cycles. At the same time, there is substantial heterogeneity of national cycles across G-7 countries, ranging from very similar...
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27 Aug 2016
How the expansion of US higher education has led to a more divided society
During the 1980s, US wage inequality increased sharply while college education expanded strikingly. Are these two historical episodes unrelated? A new study by Theodore Koutmeridis, presented at...
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26 Aug 2016
How donations to charity can increase business profits
Firms can earn significantly higher profits when they tie sales of their products with a donation of 5% of their gross revenues to charity. That is the central finding of experimental research by...
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26 Aug 2016
Do Germans and Spaniards have different preferences between work and leisure?
Roughly a quarter of the difference between Germany and Spain’s employment rates is the result of different preferences for working in the two countries. That is the central finding of research by...
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25 Aug 2016
New evidence on labour market hysteresis
The longer you're unemployed, the less likely you are to find a job.
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25 Aug 2016
Brexit: Could Liechtenstein be a model for the UK?
Liechtenstein is in the European Economic Area. It also has restrictions on the free movement of people. Could it be a model for the UK’s Brexit? This short report comes from BBC Newsnight.
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25 Aug 2016
How the Reconquista still shapes Spain’s economy
The Christian kingdoms’ reconquest of Spain between the eight and fifteenth centuries set in motion processes that generated persistent inequality, which remains evident in big income differences...
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25 Aug 2016
Globalisation's discontents
New survey evidence that the low skilled in rich countries and the high skilled in poor countries have most negative attitudes to multinationals
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24 Aug 2016
Lesson Starter activity for your first Year 1 (or AS) Economics A Level class this year - the Bridge of Sighs
I've heard of a number of favourite starter activities that teachers have to introduce Economics on day one of the course, so we've included one here that you may find valuable. It's called 'The...
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24 Aug 2016
Chronically low employment rates for Greek graduates
This new infographic drawing on employment data for the European Union illustrates the chronic problems facing people in the Greek labour market. In the UK, 89.9% of graduates are in work but in...
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24 Aug 2016
The Hartz Reforms and the German Economic Miracle
Labour market reforms that reduced unemployment benefits, improved public job intermediation and relaxed regulations on temporary help agencies or marginal employment have been key to the German...
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24 Aug 2016
Are teams in corrupt countries more likely to win a crucial last league game?
Professional football teams struggling against relegation are much more likely to get the result they need on the last day of the season in countries with higher levels of corruption. For example,...
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24 Aug 2016
Gender Pay Gap widens for women with degrees
The pay gap in the UK between men and women with higher level qualifications has not changed for 20 years, despite several government initiatives. Gemma Tetlow, FT economics correspondent, uses...
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24 Aug 2016
Historical context of Brexit
Becoming a member of the EU had positive effects on UK’s economy. In this video, Professor Nick Crafts suggests that leaving the EU will very probably have a negative effect on UK GDP, but history...
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24 Aug 2016
Famine and the Savings Ratio - Evidence from China
The experience of the Great Famine of 1959-61 is an important part of the explanation for the strikingly high level of household savings in China today. That is one of the findings of research on...
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23 Aug 2016
Gender Pay Gap in UK remains high
The gap between the average hourly wages of men and women in the UK remains high despite equality legislation, according to a report out by the Institute of Financial Studies. The report's outcomes...
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23 Aug 2016
Brexit and Income Inequality
Wage inequality was partly behind the vote for Brexit. In this short video, Brian Bell argues that the costs of Brexit should be evaluated in terms of income distribution.
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23 Aug 2016
Public investment and employment effects
Here is evidence of the employment impact of public investment programmes drawing on evidence from Germany.
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