Past Events in 2011
LLAKES Research Seminar
Education and social mobility: where next for research and policy? By Jonathan Portes
The Government has stated that its primary social policy objective is to increase social mobility. Both academics and policy-makers agree that the single most important policy lever is education,
broadly defined. Yet there is little consensus on the impact on social mobility of changes, past and future, to the education system. What does the existing research tell us about education and social
mobility? What are the impacts of the Government’s current plans likely to be? And if we as a society were really intent on increasing social mobility, what would we do
Date: Wednesday, 25th January 2012, 15:00 - 16:30 hrs
Speaker: Jonathan Portes, Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)
Venue: Institute of Education, University of London in Room 642, 20 Bedford Way, London, United Kingdom, WC1H OAL
NIESR Employment Seminar Series
Seminar 5: : 'Firm Performance and Wages: Evidence from across the Corporate Hierarchy'
Date: Tuesday 10th January 2012, 12:00 - 13:15 hrs
Speaker: Brian Bell, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
Venue: National Institute of Economic and Social Research, 2 Dean Trench Street, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HE