Publications
Publication date: 8 Jul 2020
| Publication type: Other
Executive Summary
The Chancellor should extend the government’s jobs furlough scheme, ideally until GDP is back to its pre-Covid 19 level. The scheme has been highly successful in protecting over 9 million jobs over this period and continues to support around 6 million furloughed workers.
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Publication date: 15 Jun 2020
| Publication type: Other
Economic impact of the coronavirus: Gaps in support
NIESR welcome the report from the House of Commons Treasury Committee and particularly the recognition given to the plight of new starters. The evidence presented in the report reflects our own assessment of the situation, published in a recent...
Publication date: 4 May 2020
| Publication type: Other
| Theme: Macroeconomics
Ahead of the Bank of England’s MPC meeting and quarterly monetary policy report on Thursday, here below a summary of key points outlined in our latest analysis for the UK and global economy, available in full here.
GDP is estimated to be reduced by about 30 per cent when the lockdown is in...
Publication date: 11 Mar 2020
| Publication type: Other
On Wednesday 11th March 2020, Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered his first Budget only 27 days after being appointed. The Chancellor delivered this first, post-Brexit Budget for this Government, which has a strong mandate after its comprehensive election victory in December that should be strong...
Publication date: 5 Mar 2020
| Publication type: Other
On Wednesday 11th March, Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver his first Budget only 27 days after being appointed. The Chancellor will deliver his Budget as part of a Government with a strong mandate after its comprehensive election victory in December. We can therefore expect him to use this...
Publication date: 26 Nov 2018
| Publication type: Other
| Theme: Macroeconomics, Exiting the EU & Britain after Brexit
Garry Young's note on the methodology used in the report "The Economic Effects of the Prime Minister's Brexit Deal"
Publication date: 24 Aug 2017
| Publication type: Other
| Theme: Macroeconomics
Short video presentations from the Applications of Behavioural Economics, and Multiple Equilibrium Models to Macroeconomics conference held at the Bank of England 3-4 July 2017.
Roger Farmer introducing "Psychology, Mulitple Equilibria and Economics"
James Bullard discussing "Do low interest rates...
Publication date: 16 Nov 2016
| Publication type: Other
| Theme: Britain & Finance
Life expectancy has almost doubled since pensions were first introduced for government employees 100 years ago. To continue to afford pensions in the future we have limited options, each presenting difficult trade-offs. Meanwhile both private and public sector provision is changing.
Publication date: 16 Jun 2016
| Publication type: Other
| Theme: Exiting the EU & Britain after Brexit
The Missing Debate in the IN/OUT Referendum is the difference between a Single Market and the suggested alternative a Free Trade Agreement. It turns out this matters for the people of the UK - a lot. A Free Trade Agreement doesn't fully cover services - and services account for 8 out of every 10...
Publication date: 3 Dec 2015
| Publication type: Other
| Theme: Exiting the EU & Britain after Brexit
This video provides an accessible and humorous account of the issues surrounding the Prime Minister’s negotiations with the European Commission, focused on migrants’ access to welfare benefits. It was commissioned by NIESR and produced by Econfilms with funding from the ESRC under its The UK in a...
Publication date: 19 Aug 2014
| Publication type: Other
| Theme: Employment & Social policy
Sir Andrew Dilnot (Head of the UK Statistics Authority) has said that the Prime Minister was wrong to say in his Daily Telegraph article that figures showed that in the past year more than three-quarters of all new jobs have gone to British citizens. In fact, official statistics do not show the...
Publication date: 10 Feb 2014
| Publication type: Other
| Theme: Trade, Investment & Productivity
This document provides an overview of programming code that underlies the Simulator of Individual Dynamic Decisions (SIDD). SIDD is designed to implement a structural model of dynamic decisions, focussing predominantly on the consumption/savings and labour/leisure margins. The structural model upon...
Publication date: 10 Feb 2014
| Publication type: Other
| Theme: Trade, Investment & Productivity
This manual describes use of the National Institute's Lifetime INcome Distributional Analysis model, LINDA, which is designed to explore the effects of changes to the tax and benefits structure on household circumstances through time. The model generates panel data for the entire life course of a...
Publication date: 29 Nov 2013
| Publication type: Other
| Theme: Trade, Investment & Productivity
| JEL Classification: C51, C61, C63, H31
| Journal: HMT Working Paper
This paper describes a structural dynamic microsimulation model that generates individualspecific data over a range of demographic and economic characteristics at annual intervals over the life-course. The model is specifically designed to analyse the distributional implications of policy...
Publication date: 9 Jun 2010
| Publication type: Other
| Theme: Trade, Investment & Productivity, Employment & Social policy
| Report to: NHS Employers
Webinar for the NHS Employers on the links between employee engagement and labour productivity
Publication date: 1 Jan 2000
| Publication type: Other
| Theme: Trade, Investment & Productivity, Employment & Social policy
Website providing support for users of the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey. This website is no longer live. It was superceded by a web-site supporting use of the 2004 WERS. A website supporting use of the 2011 WERS (www.wers2011.info) is scheduled to go live in November 2014.
