Summaries of previous issues of

National Institute Economic Review

No. 219 - The power of evidence: improving the effectiveness of government by investing in more rigorous evaluation


No. 219 - The evaluation of English education policies


No. 219 - The state of evidence-based policy evaluation and its role in policy formation


No. 219 - Time-limited in-work benefits in the UK: a review of recent evidence


No. 219 - Requiring the long-term unemployed to train: is benefit conditionality effective?


No. 219 - Implications of the national employment savings trust for vulnerable sectors of the UK labour market: a reduced-form statistical evaluation


No. 219 - World overview: focus on national monetary policies


No. 219 - Prospects for individual economies


No. 219 - Box A: Impact of fiscal austerity in the Euro Area


No. 219 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 219 - The Government response to the Independent Commission on Banking


No. 219 - Scotland’s currency and fiscal choices


No. 219 - Still evidence-based? The role of policy evaluation in recession and beyond: the case of the National Minimum Wage


No. 218 - An assessment of the Independent Commission on Banking’s recommendations


No. 218 - World overview


No. 218 - Prospects for individual economies


No. 218 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 218 - POVERTY AND INEQUALITY


No. 218 - Child poverty in Britain: past lessons and future prospects


No. 218 - The changing picture of earnings inequality in Britain and the role of regional and sectoral differences


No. 218 - Has the instability of personal incomes been increasing?


No. 218 - Expenditure and disposable income trends of UK households: evidence from micro-data


No. 218 - Is there a resolution to the Euro Area debt crisis?


No. 217 - Received wisdom and beyond: lessons from fiscal consolidation in the EU


No. 217 - Fiscal discipline: rules rather than institutions


No. 217 - Lessons from failure: fiscal policy, indulgence and ideology


No. 217 - The Irish fiscal crisis


No. 217 - From indecision to fast-track privatisations: can Greece still do it?


No. 217 - World overview


No. 217 - Prospects for individual economies


No. 217 - Modelling the sovereign debt crisis in Europe


No. 217 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 217 - The impact of high oil prices on the economy


No. 217 - Fiscal policy in the longer term


No. 216 - Financial regulation


No. 216 - World overview: oil prices and the fiscal stance


No. 216 - Prospects for individual economies


No. 216 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 216 - Real house prices in the UK


No. 216 - Macroprudential policy – taxonomy and challenges


No. 216 - Countercyclical macroprudential tools


No. 216 - New regulation and the new world of global banking


No. 216 - The banking sector and recovery in the EU economy


No. 216 - How idiosyncratic are banking crises in OECD countries


No. 215 - Education and inequality: introduction


No. 215 - Social cohesion: converging and diverging trends


No. 215 - Underemployment in the UK in the Great Recession


No. 215 - As higher education expands, is it contributing to greater inequality?


No. 215 - World overview and European sovereign debt


No. 215 - Prospects for individual economies


No. 215 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 215 - Monetary policy, output growth and oil prices


No. 215 - Trend output and the output gap in the UK


No. 215 - Fiscal consolidation and the slimmer state


No. 214 - Financial regulation and the European policy architecture


No. 214 - World overview


No. 214 - Prospects for individual economies


No. 214 - An international comparison of employment in recovery


No. 214 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 214 - Fiscal policy and government spending


No. 214 - Modelling the UK banking sector


No. 214 - Money, credit and bank behaviour: need for a new approach


No. 214 - UK unemployment in the Great Recession


No. 214 - The Great Recession in the UK labour market: a translantic perspective


No. 214 - The German labour market miracle?


No. 214 - Unemployment and real wages in the Great Depression


No. 214 - Unemployment: introduction


No. 213 - Immigration and the economy


No. 213 - Migration, skill composition and growth


No. 213 - Migrants’ skills and productivity: a European perspective


No. 213 - The UK labour market and immigration


No. 213 - Returning to the question of a wage premium for returning migrants


No. 213 - Fiscal multipliers to assess consolidation plans


No. 213 - Decomposition of fiscal deterioration in the OECD


No. 213 - Measuring global imbalances


No. 213 - Domestic imbalances and European growth


No. 213 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 213 - UK fiscal prospects


No. 212 - Economic performance under Labour


No. 212 - Monetary policy under Labour


No. 212 - Fiscal policy under Labour


No. 212 - Learning and working from the MSC to New Labour: young people, skills and employment


No. 212 - The UK labour market and the 2008–9 recession


No. 212 - Global prospects and sources of economic growth


No. 212 - The role of stockbuilding in recession and recovery


No. 212 - Chinese revaluation and emerging market prospects


No. 212 - Policy challenges in Europe


No. 212 - Summary of key forecast assumptions


No. 212 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 212 - Medium-term prospects for the public finances


No. 211 - Policy responses to the collapse of the financial sector: introduction


No. 211 - Macroprudential regulation – the missing policy pillar


No. 211 - Is a less procyclical financial system an achievable goal?


No. 211 - Managing housing bubbles in regional economies under EMU: Ireland and Spain


No. 211 - Macroeconomics for the 21st century: full employment as a policy goal


No. 211 - Fiscal and financial responses to the economic downturn


No. 211 - Financial regulation and commercial protection: should policy change?


No. 211 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 211 - Maturing debt and default risks


No. 211 - OECD will regain pre-crisis levels of output in 2011


No. 211 - Key forecast assumptions


No. 211 - North American responses to the global downturn


No. 211 - China and world trade


No. 211 - Rising public debt and the need for fiscal consolidation in Europe


No. 211 - A comparison of labour market responses to the global downturn


No. 210 - The Burden of the National Debt


No. 210 - Confidence and leading indicators: introduction


No. 210 - A system of rapid estimates to improve real-time monitoring of the economic situation: the case of the Euro Area


No. 210 - Nowcasting is not just contemporaneous forecasting


No. 210 - Using real-time output gaps to examine past and future policy choices


No. 210 - Architects as nowcasters of housing construction


No. 210 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 210 - Consumer spending and the financial crisis


No. 210 - Effects of risk premia falling below sustainable levels in the US


No. 210 - Asian fiscal stimulus supporting the global recovery


No. 210 - Prospects for fiscal consolidation in Europe


No. 210 - Long-term scarring from the financial crisis


No. 210 - Budget consolidation options for the UK


No. No. 210, pp 111-122. - Architects as nowcasters of housing construction


No. 209 - WORK AND WELL-BEING: INTRODUCTION


No. 209 - THE EFFECT OF WORK STATUS AND WORKING CONDITIONS ON MENTAL HEALTH IN FOUR OECD COUNTRIES


No. 209 - VALUING JOBS VIA RETIREMENT: EUROPEAN EVIDENCE


No. 209 - IS LEISURE CONTAGIOUS? THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SICKNESS ABSENCE AND SPOUSAL RETIREMENT


No. 209 - A TALE OF TWO CONTINENTS: INSURING WORKERS AGAINST LOSS OF INCOME DUE TO SICKNESS IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE


No. 209 - International recession and recovery


No. 209 - The UK economy


No. 209 - The world economy


No. 209 - Where are we now? The UK recession and nowcasting


No. 209 - Labour markets in recession: an international


No. 209 - The recent decline in global risk premia


No. 209 - Financing conditions ease in North America


No. 209 - Policy easing in East Asia has been effective


No. 209 - Recession in the Euro Area


No. 209 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 208 - Ten years of economic and monetary union


No. 208 - The euro: past successes and new challenges


No. 208 - Ten years of EMU: convergence, divergence and new policy priorities


No. 208 - The impact of EMU on real exchange rate volatility of EU countries


No. 208 - How much is the Euro Area common cycle affected by the UK?


No. 208 - The impact of European and global integration on the mark-up of prices over costs


No. 208 - Fiscal policy and the fiscal position


No. 208 - UK Economy Forecast


No. 208 - The world economy


No. 208 - The global financial crisis and collapse in world trade


No. 208 - Recession in North America


No. 208 - Asian economies are highly sensitive to the collapse in world trade


No. 208 - Destocking in the Euro Area


No. 208 - Debts, deficits and borrowing costs


No. 208 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 208 - Fiscal sustainability


No. 207 - The global cost of delaying bank stability


No. 207 - Fiscal expansions in North America


No. 207 - Economic downturn in Asia


No. 207 - Coordinated fiscal stimulus in the Euro Area


No. 207 - Prospects for the UK economy


No. 207 - Data on the credit crunch


No. 207 - The world economy


No. 207 - Growth Prospects and Financial services


No. 207 - Introduction: Quality Assessment of Early Years Education


No. 207 - Good quality childcare for all? Progress towards universal provision


No. 207 - International perspectives on quality in mixed economies of childcare


No. 207 - Contextual issues in assessing value for money in early years education


No. 207 - Using foundation stage profile assessments to assess outcomes from early years education


No. 207 - Fiscal Policy Effectiveness in the Banking Crisis


No. 206 - COMMENTARY: THE POLICY FRAMEWORK


No. 206 - UK Economy Forecast


No. 206 - World Economy Forecast


No. 206 - Decomposing the global recession


No. 206 - Exchange rate realignments and risks of deflation in North America


No. 206 - Exchange rates and inflationary prospects in Asia


No. 206 - The impact of the financial crisis on the Euro Area


No. 206 - INTRODUCTION: THE GREAT CRASH OF 2008


No. 206 - THE EVOLUTION OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2007–8


No. 206 - RISK MANAGEMENT AND THE COSTS OF THE BANKING


No. 206 - SHOULD MONETARY POLICY RESPOND TO ASSET PRICE BUBBLES? REVISITING THE DEBATE


No. 206 - THE BOUNDARY PROBLEM IN FINANCIAL REGULATION


No. 206 - COULD EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS HAVE HELPED TO PREDICT THE SUB-PRIME CRISIS?


No. 206 - FINANCIAL CRISES, REGULATION AND GROWTH


No. 206 - Prospects for the UK Economy


No. 205 - HIGH OIL PRICES: IMPLICATIONS AND PROSPECTS


No. 205 - UK Economy Forecast


No. 205 - World Economy Forecast


No. 205 - The Oil Intensity of Output


No. 205 - Prospects for the UK Economy


No. 205 - Consumtion, Housing Wealth and Financial Crises


No. 205 - Social mobility in the UK


No. 205 - Origins of Social Mobility and Inequality: Parenting and Early Child Development


No. 205 - A Transgenerational Model of Status Attainment: The Potential Mediating Role of School Motivation and Education


No. 205 - Trends in Intergenerational Class Mobility in Modern Britain: Evidence From National Surveys, 1972 - 2005


No. 205 - Up and Down the Generational Income Ladder in Britain: Past Changes and Future Prospects


No. 208 - The euro: past successes and new challenges


No. 204 - THE BANKING CRISIS AND THE ECONOMY


No. 204 - UK Economy Forecast


No. 204 - World Economy Forecast


No. 204 - Financial crises and the prospects for recession


No. 204 - Oil prices and growth


No. 204 - Forecast uncertainty and prospects for the UK economy


No. 204 - Introduction: the European Union’s new member states


No. 204 - Prices and price convergence in emerging Europe: an overview


No. 204 - Effects of foreign ownership on innovation activities: empirical evidence for 12 European countries


No. 204 - Sustainable exchange rates when trade winds are plentiful


No. 204 - Creating productive jobs in East European transition economies


No. 204 - Real wage flexibility in the enlarged EU: evidence from a structural VAR


No. 203 - Commentary: The Balance of Payments and the Savings Gap


No. 203 - UK Economy Forecast


No. 203 - World Economy Forecast


No. 203 - Risk and the UK Exchange Rate


No. 203 - Oil Prices and World Inflation


No. 203 - Recent Developments In Economic Forecasting


No. 203 - The GDP Fan Charts: an Empirical Evaluation


No. 203 - Here is the News: Forecast Revisions in the Bank of England Survey of External Forecasters


No. 203 - Real - Time Probability Forecasts of UK Macroeconomic Events


No. 203 - Forecasting the Swiss Economy using VECX* Models: an Exercise in Forecast Conbination Across Models and Observation Windows


No. 203 - A Review of Forecasting Techniques for Large Data Sets


No. 202 - The World Economy


No. 202 - UK Economy Forecast


No. 202 - Commentary: Northern Rock: Solutions and Problems


No. 202 - Banking Crises and Economic Growth


No. 202 - Interest Rates and the UK Economy


No. 202 - Introduction: Active Labour Market Policy


No. 202 - Compulsion in Active Labour Market Programme


No. 202 - The Effect to Pathways to Work on Labour Market Outcomes


No. 202 - Cost-Benefit Analysis of Psychological Therapy


No. 202 - Danish Activation Policies


The effect of Pathways to Work on labour market outcomes


No. 201 - Commentary: Interest Rates And Business Returns


No. 201 - UK Economy Forecast


No. 201 - The World Economy


No. 201 - Evaluating forecast uncertainty


No. 201 - Fiscal policy in Europe


No. 201 - Introduction: Technology, Jobs And Skills


No. 201 - Computers and pay


No. 201 - ICT and the returns to schooling and job-specific experience


No. 201 - Does offshoring reduce industry employment?


No. 201 - Human capital, job tasks and technology in East Germany after reunification


No. 201 - Internal Versus External Labour Flexibility: The Role Of Knowledge Codification 107


No. 200 - Commentary: House price worries


No. 200 - UK economy forecast


No. 200 - The World Economy


No. 200 - Introduction: The importance of productivity


No. 200 - EU KLEMS growth and productivity accounts: an overview


No. 200 - UK growth and productivity in an international perspective: evidence from EU KLEMS


No. 200 - Spain: a success story shadowed only by poor productivity performance


No. 200 - Neighbours in transition


No. 200 - A new approach to measuring health system output and productivity


No. 200 - Managing a decline in inflation


No. 200 - Whatever became of the monetary aggregates?


No. 200 - Factors affecting the US current account


No. 199 - National Institute Economic Review - January 2007


No. 199 - UK economy forecast


No. 199 - The World Economy


No. 199 - Monetary policy and global imbalances


No. 199 - Commentary: The Stern Review's Economics of Climate Change


No. 199 - Retirement and saving


No. 199 - Economic growth in Europe: Introduction


No. 199 - Recent European economic growth: why can't it be like in the Golden Age?


No. 199 - An analysis of EU growth trends, with a particular focus on Germany, France, Italy and the UK


No. 199 - Decomposing growth in France, Germany and the United Kingdom using growth accounting and production function approaches


No. 199 - Rapidly rising energy prices: does the driver of the energy market imbalance matter?


No. 198 - Savings and the Economy - Introduction


No. 198 - Immigration and its effects


No. 198 - The UK Savings Gap


No. 198 - UK Economy Forecast


No. 198 - The World Economy


No. 198 - Migration in Europe


No. 198 - Household saving rates and the design of public pension programmes: cross-country evidence


No. 198 - Saving and life insurance holdings at Boston University - a unique case study


No. 198 - When to give? A note on the timing of gifts and bequests


No. 198 - National Institute Economic Review - October 2006


No. 197 - UK Economy Forecast


No. 197 - The World Economy


No. 197 - Commentary - Big Government?


No. 197 - Public sector performance: Introduction


No. 197 - National Institute Economic Review: July 2006


No. 197 - Correcting US Imbalances


No. 197 - Metrics, Targets and Performance


No. 197 - Inflation pressures strengthen in North America


No. 197 - Financial flow dynamics amid tightening and reforms in Asia


No. 197 - Prudence and UK trend growth


No. 196 - Is UK business investment unusually weak?


No. 196 - An Assessment of NIESR Forecast Accuracy: US and Euro Area GDP and Inflation


No. 196 - The savings-investment balance: is there a UK investment shortfall?


No. 196 - UK Economy Forecast


No. 196 - The World Economy


No. 196 - National Institute Economic Review: April 2006


No. 196 - The new monetary regime: Introduction


No. 196 - An independent Bank of England: is that enough?


No. 195 - Net migration and the macroeconomy: inflation and output effects


No. 195 - The uncertainty of government debt projections


No. 195 - Employment and childcare: Introduction


No. 195 - National Institute Economic Review: January 2006


No. 195 - Commentary: The housing market and government policy


No. 195 - Consumption in the Euro Area


No. 195 - Globalisation and UK trade


No. 195 - UK Economy Forecast


No. 195 - The World Economy


No. 195 - Where are the men? Gender segregation in the childcare and early years sector


No. 194 - Europe and its fertility: from low to lowest low


No. 194 - Demographic change and the European Union labour market


No. 194 - Stochastic infinite horizon forecasts for US social security finances


No. 194 - Immigrant performance and selective immigration policy: A European perspective


No. 194 - European Asylum Policy


No. 194 - National Institute Economic Review: October 2005


The World Economy


No. 193 - Global Realignments of Exchange Rates: East Asia's Dilemma


No. 193 - How forecasts evolve: the growth forecasts of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England


No. 193 - The National Institute Density Forecasts of Inflation


No. 193 - Forecast comparisons


No. 193 - The return to a university education in Great Britain


No. 193 - Assessing the performance of local government


No. 193 - The superior educational attainments of pupils in religious foundation schools in England


No. 193 - National Institute Economic Review: July 2005


No. 193 - Pensions and Pensions Policy


No. 193 - The World Economy


No. 191 - Paying for university: the impact of increasing costs on student employment, debt and satisfaction


No. 192 - Labour’s Economic Performance - a commentary


No. 192 - National Institute Economic Review: April 2005


No. 192 - UK Economy Forecast


No. 192 - Correcting US Imbalances


No. 191 - The sterling effective exchange rate and other measures of UK competitiveness


National Institute Economic Review: January 2005


No. 191 - Policy design and macroeconomic stability in Europe


No. 191 - Dollars and deficits: the US Current Account Deficit and its exchange Rate Consequences


National Institute Economic Review: October 2004


No. 190 - Academic Salaries in the UK and US


The World Economy


No. 189 - The current position of UK house prices


No. 189 - The impact of fiscal and monetary imbalances on the UK economy


National Institute Economic Review: July 2004


The World Economy


No. 188 - Economic performance in France, Germany and the United Kingdom: 1997-2002


No. 188 - The volatility of the output gap in the G7


National Institute Economic Review: April 2004


The World Economy


Simulating Household Savings and Labour Supply


No. 187 - Productivity impacts and spillovers from foreign ownership in the United Kingdom


National Institute Economic Review: January 2004


The World Economy


National Institute Economic Review: October 2003


The World Economy


Sweden and EMU


No. 185 - Changing the inflation target


No. 185 - Benchmarks and Targets under the SGP


National Institute Economic Review: July 2003


No. 185 - The World Economy


No. 186 - Measuring the macroeconomic effects of reducing benefit dependency


No. 184 - The growth of ICT and industry performance


National Institute Economic Review: April 2003


No. 183 - Business cycles and turning points: a survey of statistical techniques


No. 183 - Asymmetric labour markets in a converging Europe: Do differences matter?


National Institute Economic Review: January 2003


The World Economy


National Institute Economic Review: October 2002


No. 182 - Have UK and Eurozone business cycles become more correlated?


The World Economy


National Institute Economic Review: July 2002


Prospects for Europe


Prospects for Europe


National Institute Economic Review: April 2002


No. 180 - Productivity and convergence in the EU


National Institute Economic Review: January 2002


No. 179 - Britain's relative productivity performance: has anything changed?


Prospects for Europe


No. 176 - The impact of unions on pay levels in lower-skilled jobs


National Institute Economic Review: October 2001


Prospects for Europe


The electricity supply industry: a study of an industry in transition


National Institute Economic Review: July 2001


Prospects for Europe


National Institute Economic Review: April 2001


Prospects for Europe


No. 178 - Developments in Education and Vocational Training in Britain: Background Note on Recent Research


The foundation of “partnership”? Union effects on employee trust in management


National Institute Economic Review: January 2000


Qualifications and international mobility: a case study of the European chemicals industry


Prospects for the European Union


National Institute Economic Review: October 2000


Prospects for the European Union


National Institute Economic Review: July 2000


Prospects for the European Union


National Institute Economic Review: April 2000


Prospects for the European Union


National Institute Economic Review: January 2000


Prospects for the European Union


From Unemployment to Self-Employment: Developing An Effective Structure of Micro-Finance Support


National Institute Economic Review: October 1999


National Institute Economic Review: July 1999


No. 169 - The impact of employee involvement on small firms’ financial performance


National Institute Economic Review: April 1999


National Institute Economic Review: January 1999


Within-Classroom Grouping: A Rejoinder


National Institute Economic Review: October 1998


National Institute Economic Review: July 1998


Raising Schooling Attainments by Grouping Pupils Within Each Class


National Institute Economic Review: April 1998


National Institute Economic Review: January 1998


No. 162 - Productivity, machinery and skills in the United States and Western Europe


National Institute Economic Review: October 1997


National Institute Economic Review: July 1997


How Did English Schools and Pupils Really Perform in the 1995 International Comparisons in Mathematics?


National Institute Economic Review: April 1997


No. 157 - Reform of Mathematical Education in Primary Schools: The Experiment in Barking and Dagenham


No. 147 - Productivity, product quality and workforce skills: food processing in four European countries


No. 144 - Britain's Industrial Skills and the School-Teaching of Practical Subjects: Comparisons with Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland


No. 140 - Vocational Education and Productivity in the Netherlands and Britain


No. 136 - Vocational Qualifications in Britain and Europe: Theory and Practice


No. 130 - Productivity and Vocational Skills in Services in Britain and Germany: Hotels


No. 129 - How Europe Would See the New British Initiative for Standardising Vocational Qualifications


No. 128 - Two Nations of Shopkeepers: Training for Retailing in France and Britain


No. 127 - Qualified Manpower in Engineering: Britain and other Industrially Advanced Countries


No. 120 - Productivity and Management: The Training of Foremen in Britain and Germany


Educating for Productivity: Comparisons of Japanese and English Schooling and Vocational Preparation


Vocational Training in France and Britain: The Building Trades


Schooling Standards in England and Germany: Some Summary Comparisons Bearing on Economic Performance


Vocational Training in France and Britain: Mechanical and Electrical Craftsmen


Some Practical Aspects of Investment in Human Capital: Training Standards in Five Occupations in Britain and Germany


No. 98 - Vocational Qualifications of the Labour Force in Britain and Germany



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