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Productivity & growth • 14 Jun 23

Can policy boost productivity in the UK’s services-based economy?
Productivity & growth • 21 Nov 25

How do the target sectors in the UK’s Industrial Strategy compare across the G7?
Productivity & growth • 15 Jan 24

What explains the UK’s productivity problem?
Productivity & growth • 14 Jan 26

Have the UK’s northern cities really experienced a productivity miracle?
Productivity & growth • 12 Jul 24

Twenty-five years of devolution: what progress on productivity and skills?
Productivity & growth • 17 Sep 25

Boosting agricultural productivity: what lessons from policies in Uganda?
Productivity & growth • 28 Oct 25

How might the UK’s new approach to migration affect the economy?
Communicating economics • 04 Jan 24

#studentviews: Should a four-day working week become the norm?
Communicating economics • 20 Dec 22

#studentviews: Is the UK ready for a four-day week?
Communicating economics • 28 Dec 23

#studentviews: How can young doctors be discouraged from leaving the NHS?
Communicating economics • 03 Jan 24

#studentviews: Can the UK afford to turn away skilled migrants?
Data stories • 13 Apr 22

What do new UK labour market data reveal about the post-Covid-19 recovery?
Data stories • 10 Jun 25

What’s happening with jobs, vacancies and pay in the UK?
Data stories • 22 Jul 21

Levelling up: Has Covid-19 reduced the regional employment gap?
Data stories • 19 Jan 22

What do the latest data tell us about the UK labour market?
Data stories • 23 Jun 21

School’s in: are more of the young staying in education during the downturn?
Data stories • 14 Feb 23

What’s happening in the UK labour market?
Data stories • 01 Apr 25

What’s happening with UK pay and employment?
Data stories • 23 Dec 20

How has the cost of Christmas dinner changed over the years?
Data stories • 28 Jul 21

Could universal basic income work in Wales?
Data stories • 19 Jul 22

Working from home: what can we learn from the latest UK data?
Data stories • 10 Nov 20

How do Covid-19 redundancy numbers compare with previous UK downturns?
Data stories • 27 Sep 22

What do new wellbeing data reveal about the quality of life in the UK?
Data stories • 24 Feb 21

What do payroll employment data reveal about UK job losses?
Data stories • 19 May 22

What do the latest UK inflation data mean for real wages?
Data stories • 16 Dec 20

What explains the revival in job vacancies alongside rising unemployment?
Data stories • 20 Jul 22

Inflation update: what’s driving the cost of living crisis?
Data stories • 12 Jul 23

What do the latest data tell us about UK wage growth?
Data stories • 08 Feb 22

Are we really witnessing a ‘great resignation’?
Data stories • 15 Apr 25

The UK labour market: what’s happening with wages and jobs?
Data stories • 22 Feb 24

What is the state of the UK economy in early 2024?
Data stories • 23 Sep 21

How has Covid-19 affected part-time jobs?
Data stories • 14 Jun 22

What do the latest UK labour market data mean for real wages?
Data stories • 14 Apr 21

A year in the UK labour market: what’s happened over the coronavirus pandemic?
Data stories • 15 Mar 22

What do the latest data reveal about the UK’s gender pay gap?
Data stories • 28 Jun 22

How has the UK’s pandemic labour market compared with other G7 countries?
Data stories • 02 Dec 20

How are tiers affecting jobs and infection rates at the local level?
Data stories • 09 Oct 20

How do Covid-19 cases and benefit claims compare at the local level?
Data stories • 17 Mar 22

What do the latest UK labour market data reveal?
Data stories • 22 Jun 22

Cost of living crisis: what do the latest UK inflation data reveal?
Data stories • 19 Aug 22

The UK’s regional labour markets: what do the latest data reveal?
Data stories • 24 Mar 21

Did sickness absence among UK workers rise or fall in 2020?
Data stories • 20 Apr 21

Data update: Labour market
Data stories • 10 Jun 21

How does the Cornish economy compare with the rest of the UK?
Data stories • 13 Nov 20

To what extent are young people bearing the brunt of Covid-19 job losses?
Data stories • 23 Apr 21

What’s been happening to employment of young people in the UK?
News • 11 Jun 21

International rescue
News • 23 Apr 21

Unequal effects
News • 23 Jul 21

The new normal
News • 08 Jul 22

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