The national minimum wage is now an established part of the British labour market. In the first evaluation of all the evidence of its impact on pay and jobs, David Metcalf shows that there has been a big boost in the pay of those towards the bottom of the pay league table with no associated loss...

When poor children are working rather than going to school, do their parents work less? And what happens to their siblings? Marco Manacorda looks for answers in the experience of child labour in urban America at the dawn of the jazz age.

The terrorist attacks of 7 July 2005 resulted in a very large redeployment of police officers to central London boroughs. New research by Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt looks at the impact of this increased security presence on criminal activity in the weeks and months after the...

More than a quarter of Britain's children are growing up in poverty. New research by Jo Blanden and Steve Gibbons measures the extent to which children's experience of relative financial hardship increases their chances of being poor in adulthood - and whether that 'persistence' of poverty...

In its recent report on how to make further progress in closing the gender pay gap, the Women and Work Commission emphasises policy interventions before women enter the labour market. Alan Manning is sceptical about their likely effectiveness.

Economists have typically been sceptical that computers improve educational outcomes. But research by Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Olmo Silva finds evidence that new technology can have a positive effect on pupils' performance.

Most people with mental illness should be offered the choice of psychological therapy.

The Doha failure may undermine WTO credibility and ferment distrust in developing countries.

In a world of rapid technological progress and increasing international competition, how can European countries improve their poor employment performance? Christopher Pissarides argues that much needs to change in the lower productivity, more labour-intensive service sectors of the economy.

The last issue of CentrePiece reported research by Florence Kondylis on the costs of conflict-induced migration for individual households in Rwanda. In this issue, she explores similar questions for people displaced and resettled as a result of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.