If you're looking for a novel to read on holiday, check out my good friend Patrick Worrall's third novel: The Aristocracy. If you don't want to take my word for it, check out the reviews. www.foyles.co.uk/reviews/the-...

🚨New podcast: Will new technologies make or break our jobs?👩‍💻 Ruth Curtice and Greg Thwaites sat down with Sarah O'Connor to talk about her new book, discussing the past, present, and future of technological transformations in the labour market. Listen below⤵️

Will new technologies make or break our jobs? Book discussion with Sarah O’Connor | High Resolution

New technologies have been creating and destroying jobs for millennia. In recent decades, automation has upended the way many people work, and now artificial intelligence threatens further upheaval.…

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New birth registration stats show that being childless at 30 is increasingly becoming the norm. Importantly, it’s too soon to know whether the recent fall in births will result in permanently fewer children or whether young people today will have (more) children later in life.

Another one who thinks the response to a global shortage of something which makes it more expensive is to subsidise people to buy more of it. Truly British politics is blessed with genius.

An internationalist environmentalist party there suggesting we subsidise rich-world consumers to outbid developing countries for fossil fuels, incredible work.

Our latest substack, from @gthwaites.bsky.social, considers whether the social mobility gap could be bigger than the gender pay gap. Read more ⤵️ buff.ly/IoBOOob

Today we discussed new research from @resolutionfoundation.org co-authored with @gthwaites.bsky.social @annastansbury.bsky.social and Richmond Egyei on the long shadow that deep poverty in childhood casts over the earnings of graduates in the labour market. Thread below on what we found …

Graduates who grew up in deep poverty face a large pay gap 10 years into their careers. They earn 13 per cent less than graduates who did not grow up in poverty – equivalent to over £7,590 a year, and larger than the gender pay gap in the UK ⤵️ buff.ly/5VfX2Fi

Life at the PDF mill is a hard, we need something to look forward to Robert

New NBER paper based on a survey of CFOs. Firms report no productivity increases due to AI adoption so far but expect a 1.4% productivity boost over the next 3 years. www.nber.org/papers/w34836

Big signing here for the government (and civil service) as Prof Brian Bell becomes Chief Economic Advisor at the Treasury. Brian will bring much-needed economic rigour and expertise, as well as adding A LOT of drive and energy to UK economic policymaking.

New Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury appointed

Professor Brian Bell has been appointed as the new Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury and Head of the Government Economic Service, replacing Sam Beckett.

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Our major new book is out today, exploring the changing circumstances of the poorer half of Britain, and setting out a policy agenda. Read a summary of it all here resolutionfoundation.substack.com/p/unsung-bri...

Unsung Britain: working harder, getting nowhere

Mike Brewer explains how recent decades have squeezed the households who can least afford it

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Good news about the British economy?! UK productivity – how much the economy produces per hour worked – grew more in the past year than in the previous seven years combined. In our latest Substack, Research Director @gthwaites.bsky.social takes a closer look 📈

UK productivity grew more in the last year than in the previous seven combined

Gregory Thwaites on a genuinely surprising number, and what it means for the Bank of England

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📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

Good news against January blues: 🏹 the Nottingham GEP Labour Workshop is back! 🏹 Small in-person workshop; plenty of interactions. Submit your best labo(u)r paper! 🗣️ Gordon Dahl (UCSD) and Anna Stansbury (MIT) 📅 1-2 June 2026 🌍 University of Nottingham Apply by March 1st! ➡️ tinyurl.com/3kdpb64a

And that's a wrap! You can watch back our New Year Outlook event with @ruthcurtice.bsky.social @claire-ainsley.bsky.social @luketryl.bsky.social & @gthwaites.bsky.social here www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/growi... A wide-ranging discussion, with some great questions!

Growing pains? • Resolution Foundation

2025 was a bumper year for growth – in political and economic upheaval rather than GDP. Local elections accelerated Britain’s move from a two to five party system, while economists were treated to thr...

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Has anyone looked at whether getting information from AI, which tends to be mainstream, is having/will have a depolarising effect, kind of the opposite of social media?

I don’t agree with lots in this article, but do agree it’s important to highlight that minimum wages can affect other aspects of job quality. w/ Michael Davies and Jisung Park, I find higher minimum wages increase workplace injuries, likely via work intensification.

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For years, governments have made incautious rises to the minimum wage. That has caused economists to fret that wage floors are as high as they should go

GDP treats cigarette sales & cancer treatments as “good,” but caring for your kids or creating art doesn’t count at all. @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social joins Nick & Goldy to explain why GDP no longer reflects the real economy—and how we can measure true progress instead. 🎧Listen here: buff.ly/7HrQ3Wi

📉 Calling all chart enthusiasts! 📢 The Resolution Foundation is hiring 👀 This is a rare opportunity to join our senior leadership team and take forward our work on productivity and growth. Applications close in two weeks! ⤵️ buff.ly/x40DZV1

Sometimes a statistic is counterintuitive. This is not one: every adult in Britain has experienced greater interaction with people of different ethnic backgrounds over their lifetime As I say in this thread, this statistical fact is obvious in every aspect of our lives, & all of us know/feel it

Omar Khan@omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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🚨 New research published today 🚨 Our analysis finds that inactivity is rising and unemployment has not yet peaked. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/a9SnWhw

Economist? The Treasury’s headache could be your opportunity! An ideal time to specialise in tax policy ….

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📣 We're hiring for a Principal Economist 👀 This is a unique opportunity for an individual who can conduct economic and policy analysis independently at an advanced level. Full details here ⤵️ buff.ly/5pBKLDx

Quick word on today's encouraging UK flash PMIs. This is THE key short-term economic indicator and the big issue for Aug was whether the recovery from April & May doldrums wd continue... In the event, the composite PMI pickedup slightly to its highest level in a year in August...

🚨 🚨 Interested in #regional #economic #inequalities in the #UK? Have a look at the video that came out of our project on the drivers of #wage disparities across English #cities. #econsky📉📈 #geosky @astonpress.bsky.social @resfoundation.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social