economics, psychology, policy

Nobody will doubt the importance of multi-nationals to this country but the question of corporate taxation shouldn't be so sacred. I thi...

Professor Stephen Lea, head of the School of Psychology at Exeter, will speak at Geary on April 6th at 1pm. The title of his talk is "M...

The Enterprise, Trade and Employment section of the Summary of Budget Measures indicates the following: "Within the overall allocation...

The Work Placement Programme (discussed previously here ) has undergone a number of revisions. For unemployed participants the following cri...

In yesterday's NY Times it was reported that there are six key areas for discussion at this Thursday's Obama Jobs Summit . These ar...

The Analytic Bridge blog describes an exercise conducted by Life Analytics where 10000 tweets containing the word economy were collected wi...

IT article today indicates that an additional 10,000 full medical (GMS) cards are being issued per month. I would estimate that the number ...

This is the keynote at the 11th IZA/CEPR European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics that starts tomorrow: Growing Up in a...

Tomorrow (or today, Irish time) sees the release of U.S. employment figures, which are expected to show a marginal increase in unemployment....

Figures released today in the Central Statistics Office's Quarterly National Household Survey show that the unemployment rate increased...

Some jobs are currently hard to fill in the United States, according to the New York Times ( earlier this week ): Welder is one, employers r...

The Economist Blog reported in April that Google Trends showed a decline in news reference volume for all three of the terms “Great Depress...