Posted by: Cornelia Suta
Publish date: 18th March, 2021 | 3:49pm18/3/2021
Through our work for Technequality, an EU Horizon 2020 project, Principal Consultant Cornelia Suta explores how the age of automation could affect the gender employment gap. How will the combined impact of Covid-19 and the adoption of technology on the labour market affect the ge…
Posted by: Chris Thoung
Publish date: 9th March, 2021 | 10:56am9/3/2021
Head of Society Chris Thoung shares his thoughts on why, when considering post-Brexit global trade deals, it’s important to remember that behind the numbers and the pound signs are people and jobs. Chris illustrates this with our recent work with the China-Britain Business Coun…
Posted by: Andrew Sentance
Publish date: 24th February, 2021 | 1:36pm24/2/2021
Senior Adviser Andrew Sentance calls for a bold Budget that addresses long-term investment in the UK’s green recovery plan and tax reform, ahead of Rishi Sunak’s Budget statement on Wednesday 3 March.
On Wednesday 3 March, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak will deliv…
We recently welcomed Sustainable Investment Manager János Hidi to the Cambridge Econometrics team in Budapest. János will be taking forward our Sustainable Investment service at a critical time for the financial sector managing climate risk and building climate resilience….
Posted by: Andrew Sentance
Publish date: 20th January, 2021 | 3:48pm20/1/2021
Senior Adviser Andrew Sentance shares his thoughts on the latest GDP and inflation figures. Despite the announcement of a new national lockdown in England at the beginning of January, we have had some encouraging news about the resilience of the UK economy over the past week or s…
We interviewed Economist Boglárka Molnár from the Cambridge Econometrics Team in Hungary covering her work highlights so far, what inspired her to become an economist and what she likes to do in her spare time.
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Posted by: Guest Blog
Publish date: 11th January, 2021 | 10:41am11/1/2021
Paula Harrison, Simona Pedde and Zuzana Harmáčková from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) provide the latest update on the ongoing UK-SSPs project. They share more about what socio-economic scenarios are, why they are important and introduce the five UK soci…
Posted by: Andrew Sentance
Publish date: 22nd December, 2020 | 11:10am22/12/2020
The latest figures for output and employment confirm how the Coronavirus pandemic and associated lockdowns have taken their toll on the UK economy this year. Senior Adviser Andrew Sentance takes a closer look at the divergent experience of sectors in the UK and what lies ahead fo…
Posted by: Mary Goldman
Publish date: 11th December, 2020 | 4:24pm11/12/2020
Although he might still be insisting otherwise, Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. Joe Biden secured a victory with a record-breaking popular vote and the necessary electoral college votes to safely secure the presidency. Biden won the presidency,&nb…
Posted by: Matthew Haynes
Publish date: 11th December, 2020 | 1:41pm11/12/2020
This is the second blog in a case study series that explores the merits of microdata in policy analysis. It investigates changing retirement patterns in the UK, using the Annual Population Survey (APS) microdata set.
As we learned from the first blog in this series, microdata …