Description: Bill McRaith spent his career building supply chains – from 1980s Britain, to a factory in Panyu, China in 1990, to Ethiopia three decades later. He joins Oliver Hanney to explain what...
Labour MP Jeevun Sandher speaking to us at a recent event.
Baroness Minouche Shafik, Chief Economic Adviser to the UK Prime Minister on her scepticism about Universal Basic Income, and the idea that ‘there won't be any work left and we're all going to stay...
The Trump administration's deployment of DHS agencies—such as ICE—has caused irreparable harm to our communities, neighbors, and families across the country. The economic costs are also substantial...
What makes a job “good”? Is it pay, flexibility, progression, security, purpose, autonomy, or the people you work with?
Policy debates about inequality often focus on wages and getting people into...
... at the Paris School of Economics on June 4-6, 2026.
Session: Gender Equality, Labour Hours and Sustainability
01:05 Panel discussion with Julie Gonnet, Camille Landais, Anne...
The World Inequality Lab organized the third edition of the World Inequality Conference, at the Paris School of Economics on June 4-6, 2026.
Plenary Session: Compressing the Wealth Scale, Democrat...
... Dabrowski, M. and M. Catarina Louro (2025) 'Economic convergence, demography, labour markets: what progress have EU candidate countries made? (https://www.bruegel.org/analysi...
The UK is one of the most geographically unequal countries in the developed world. People living in London and the South East tend to have higher incomes, higher levels of education and better heal...
Con más de 37 años de trayectoria en la CEPAL, José Besa García fue una figura clave en la construcción y organización de su memoria documental.
📚 Desde sus inicios como auxiliar de biblioteca a l..
"Brexit meant that, in addition to putting up barriers with your main customer, it was putting up barriers within the factory that produced things."
Ten years on from the UK’s vote to leave the E...
As we welcome the new ILO Convention 193 on Decent Work in the Platform Economy, hear some thoughts on different country contexts, responses to algorithmic management in platform work, and the call...
LSTM Inaugural Lecture - Professor Eve Worrall
Professor Eve Worrall's inaugural lecture explored the role economics plays in shaping global health policy, practice and decision-making.
Drawing on nearly 30 years of experience as a researcher,...
...l economies, underpinned by sound macroeconomic management and a highly skilled labour force. Yet growth is slow, inflation remains persistently above the 2% target, and the so...
Arin Dube explains about how pay should be determined by wage floors #economics #wage #USPolitics
World renown economist explains how pay raises should be done sector by sector and with wage floors, ensuring all workers get fair and reasonable compensation for their labor.
Why the EU won’t make life easy for Britain
Professor Anand Menon explains the EU’s incentive to hold a hard line. With populists like France’s Rassemblement National and Germany’s AfD at home, the last thing Brussels wants is to make life o...
Decent work and social justice in the platform economy
At the 114th Session of the International Labour Conference, Nahuel Placanica, Workers’ delegate from CGT Argentina, stresses the need for...