Dr Steve McIntosh from Sheffield University presented the findings of his critical review of the evidence (to be published this Autumn) and Dr Craig Holmes from Oxford and SKOPE�commented on his work with Professor Ken Mayhew on job polarisation. The literature on hollowing out has argued that...

New article on Vox: The ‘hollowing out’ thesis suggests that there are far fewer intermediate-level jobs in the labour market and far more low- and high-level jobs than two or three decades ago, primarily due to technological advancement. However, a new article by Bob Butcher just posted on...

Bob Butcher, an economist and Visiting Fellow at NIESR, presented the findings from his article on trends in job creation, published in the recent edition of the National Institute Economic Review. Martin Weale from the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee and previous Director of...

A data annex for the article on Job Creation is in the supplement here.� Happy reading! � Bob Butcher 2 August 2013

This paper draws on the ICT Professionals Survey (carried out between December 2000-February 2001) and matching post-survey financial data to examine the determinants of ICT-related Ôinternal skill gaps' and their impact on company sales performance. The most common reasons for internal skill...

This paper focuses on the changing prevalence and activities of workplace employee representatives over the period 1980-2004. The broad changes that affected industrial relations in Britain over this period had profound effects for trade unions. How did these changes affect employee...

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In this paper we investigate whether and how far density forecasts sensibly can be combined to produce a "better" pooled density forecast. In so doing we bring together two important but hitherto largely unrelated areas of the forecasting literature in economics, density forecasting and forecast...