Not long before the coronavirus outbreak, fears about artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and machines resulting in a jobless society were widespread. Concerns have resurfaced in light of the COVID-19 crisis potentially accentuating automation. This study utilises a novel big data set based...

The paper looks at two aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic. These are (i) the nature of this event and its implication for evaluating past policy and policy into the future, and (ii) the suitability of proposed changes in the implementation of competition policy affecting firm behaviour, market...

The successful assimilation of ethnic minorities into Western economies is one of the biggest challenges facing the Modern World. The substantial flows of Irish, to England, provide an historical example of this process. However, this has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. We use...