Life at the PDF mill is a hard, we need something to look forward to Robert

New NBER paper based on a survey of CFOs. Firms report no productivity increases due to AI adoption so far but expect a 1.4% productivity boost over the next 3 years. www.nber.org/papers/w34836

New Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury appointed Professor Brian Bell has been appointed as the new Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury and Head of the Government Economic Service, replacing Sam Beckett.

Big signing here for the government (and civil service) as Prof Brian Bell becomes Chief Economic Advisor at the Treasury. Brian will bring much-needed economic rigour and expertise, as well as adding A LOT of drive and energy to UK economic policymaking.

Unsung Britain: working harder, getting nowhere Mike Brewer explains how recent decades have squeezed the households who can least afford it

Our major new book is out today, exploring the changing circumstances of the poorer half of Britain, and setting out a policy agenda.

Read a summary of it all here resolutionfoundation.substack.com/p/unsung-bri...

UK productivity grew more in the last year than in the previous seven combined Gregory Thwaites on a genuinely surprising number, and what it means for the Bank of England

Good news about the British economy?!

UK productivity – how much the economy produces per hour worked – grew more in the past year than in the previous seven years combined.

In our latest Substack, Research Director @gthwaites.bsky.social takes a closer look 📈

📢now forthcoming in ECMA!

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia

Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.

Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

University of Nottingham Campus

Call for papers, available at this link: https://tinyurl.com/3kdpb64a

Participants to the 2nd edition of the Nottingham GEP Labour Workshop, June 2025

Good news against January blues: 🏹 the Nottingham GEP Labour Workshop is back! 🏹

Small in-person workshop; plenty of interactions. Submit your best labo(u)r paper!

🗣️ Gordon Dahl (UCSD) and Anna Stansbury (MIT)
📅 1-2 June 2026
🌍 University of Nottingham

Apply by March 1st! ➡️ tinyurl.com/3kdpb64a

This is a bad idea

Growing pains? • Resolution Foundation 2025 was a bumper year for growth – in political and economic upheaval rather than GDP. Local elections accelerated Britain’s move from a two to five party system, while economists were treated to thr...

And that's a wrap! You can watch back our New Year Outlook event with @ruthcurtice.bsky.social @claire-ainsley.bsky.social @luketryl.bsky.social & @gthwaites.bsky.social here

www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/growi...

A wide-ranging discussion, with some great questions!

Has anyone looked at whether getting information from AI, which tends to be mainstream, is having/will have a depolarising effect, kind of the opposite of social media?

Useful to compare this to productivity growth rates of private-sector firms of a similar size. How variable and correlated do they tend to be?

I don’t agree with lots in this article, but do agree it’s important to highlight that minimum wages can affect other aspects of job quality.

w/ Michael Davies and Jisung Park, I find higher minimum wages increase workplace injuries, likely via work intensification.

GDP treats cigarette sales & cancer treatments as “good,” but caring for your kids or creating art doesn’t count at all.

@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social joins Nick & Goldy to explain why GDP no longer reflects the real economy—and how we can measure true progress instead.

🎧Listen here: buff.ly/7HrQ3Wi

📉 Calling all chart enthusiasts! 📢 The Resolution Foundation is hiring 👀

This is a rare opportunity to join our senior leadership team and take forward our work on productivity and growth.

Applications close in two weeks! ⤵️ buff.ly/x40DZV1

Sometimes a statistic is counterintuitive. This is not one: every adult in Britain has experienced greater interaction with people of different ethnic backgrounds over their lifetime

As I say in this thread, this statistical fact is obvious in every aspect of our lives, & all of us know/feel it

📢 Job vacancy: Research Assistant (Pre-doc), Labour Markets

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🚨 Vacancies alert!

We're currently hiring for three new roles. Applications for all three will close on September 19th.

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Ready for your next step? We're hiring! 📣

If you have strong quantitative research skills and a commitment to raising living standards in the UK, you might be the right fit for our team.

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📣 We're hiring! 📣

Do you have an interest in the economic and social policy of the UK and an eye for detail?

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🚨 New research published today 🚨

Our analysis finds that inactivity is rising and unemployment has not yet peaked.

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Economist? The Treasury’s headache could be your opportunity! An ideal time to specialise in tax policy ….

Quick word on today's encouraging UK flash PMIs. This is THE key short-term economic indicator and the big issue for Aug was whether the recovery from April & May doldrums wd continue... In the event, the composite PMI pickedup slightly to its highest level in a year in August...

Thanks a lot Matt for this paper and the reference

Love these charts! But do you have data showing that wealth is lightly taxed in the UK vs rest of world? What counts as a wealth tax for this comparison? IT on property income? IHT/CGT? Corporation tax? Council tax? Business rates?

🚨 🚨 Interested in #regional #economic #inequalities in the #UK? Have a look at the video that came out of our project on the drivers of #wage disparities across English #cities.

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Our latest report by @emilyfry.bsky.social @tasoskitsos.bsky.social @gthwaites.bsky.social @dalilariba.bsky.social Richmond Egyei and Enrico Vanino looks at the impact of place in regional inequality.

The pay postcode lottery What is driving Britain’s place-based wage divides? Date and time: Monday 23 June 2025 9:30 am - 10:45 am Speakers Xiaowei Xu, Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Greg Thwaites Research Director at the Resolution Foundation, Ruth Curtice, Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, Henri Murison Chief Executive at The Northern Powerhouse Partnership, Rachel Taylor, UK Government and Health Industries Leader at PWC

While regional pay inequality is widely discussed, what drives these divides is less well understood.

We'll be discussing our latest research on region pay w/ Rachel Taylor ‪@xiaoweixu.bsky.social‬ ‪@henrimurison.bsky.social‬ ‪@gthwaites.bsky.social‬ & ‪@ruthcurtice.bsky.social‬

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Senior Research Fellow, AI and the economy | IPPR The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.

Excited to be hiring a Senior AI Research Fellow @ippr.org . With AI progressing rapidly, the economic and social impacts could be huge – from job disruption to misinformation. We design bold, sector-specific policies to ensure AI delivers public value.

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Table showing estimated FTE labour supply impacts of benefit reforms

📣 New research, by @louisemurphy.bsky.social‬ and Gregory Thwaites, published this morning 📣

The spring’s benefit and employment support reforms will most likely increase the labour supply... but that increase is much smaller than the number of people affected by the cuts ⤵️ buff.ly/YzOXy6T