Niesr Podcast

Heather Rolfe and David Nguyen discuss the findings of NIESR's latest report on the effects of Brexit-related labour shortages in the UK health and social care sector. You can find the full report here https://www.niesr.ac.uk/publications/brexit-and-health-social-care-workforce-uk and Heather's blog here: https://www.niesr.ac.uk/blog/brexit-risks-putting-social-care-critical-list

As NIESR published its November 2018 Economic Review- an issue devoted to the Institute's 80th birthday - Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR Research Director Peter Dolton about the changing trends in labour economics. Peter's article on the same theme is outside the paywall and available for all to read here: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/002795011824600112 Peter's blog explaining the main ten trends of the last few years is here: https://www.niesr.ac.uk/blog/ten-important-facts-about-uk-labour-market-today

Associate Research Director Heather Rolfe talks to Gary Gibbon, Political Editor of Channel 4 News about what role broadcast media plays in framing people's negative perceptions of immigration. They talked after the public launch of a new in-depth report by NIESR entitled "Post-Brexit Immigration Policy: Reconciling Public Perceptions with Economic Evidence", funded by the Leverhulme Trust. You can find the report on NIESR's website on www.niesr.ac.uk

Nathan Hudson-Sharp tells Paola Buonadonna that his latest research shows the majority of child and family social workers have very little education and training on gender variance and transgender issues. His report, "Transgender awareness in child and family social work education", was published today by the Department for Education.

The Commentary of the May 2018 NIESR Economic Review argues the time has come to ease fiscal austerity. Paola Buonadonna discusses what options are open to the Government with Arno Hantzsche, a Senior Economist at the Institute.

UK wages have not yet returned to pre-recession levels, despite a very low unemployment rate. Why are UK workers finding it so difficult to negotiate a pay rise? Prof David Bell of Sterling University discusses his latest research - co-authored with Danny Blanchflower - for the February 2018 issue of the NIESR Economic Review.

Paola Buonadonna talks to Lucy Stokes about new research on school performance for the National Institute Economic Review. This special issue of the Review, out on 7 February 2018, was produced in collaboration with UCL Institute of Education as part of work funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

In the fourth and final episode of a series of podcasts looking ahead to 2018 Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR's Director, Prof Jagjit Chadha, about the price of the exit deal and the economic cost of Brexit.

Paola Buonadonna talks to Dr Monique Ebell about the difficult trade-offs the UK is faced with in the coming year as it negotiates a new relationship with the EU. This is the third of series of podcasts looking ahead to economic and social developments to keep an eye on in 2018,

In the second of a series of podcasts looking ahead to economic and social developments to keep an eye on in 2018 Paola Buonadonna and NIESR Associate Research Director Heather Rolfe discuss the latest agreement on EU citizens rights post-Brexit and the future of EU immigration.

In the first of a series of podcasts looking ahead to economic and developments to keep an eye on in 2018 Paola Buonadonna and senior NIESR economist Arno Hantzsche discuss what to expect from the ECB in and the likelihood of reform in the Euro area.

Britain's productivity puzzle is turning into a nightmare, with a further decade of slow growth predicted by some. Paola Buonadonna speaks to NIESR Associate Research Director Monique Ebell about a report she recently co-authored, which could provide a piece of the jigsaw.

Is the West doomed to a 'new normal' of low growth? And what is the role played by skills and other intangible assets in driving productivity performance? Paola Buonadonna meets Jakob Madsen, Rebecca Riley and Geoff Mason who presented their latest ESRC-backed research at at the recent LLAKES conference in Assisi.

Dr Monique Ebell, an experts on international trade at NIESR welcomes the Government's suggestion of an interim period during which Britain would remain in the EU Customs Union post-Brexit, but asks : what then?

Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR Senior Economist Rebecca Piggott about the complex, and somewhat contradictory trends she is witnessing in the UK labour market.

In the run-up to the General Election of June 2017 Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR Research Director Peter Dolton about the state of NHS financing and what the three main parties aim to do about it.

In the run-up to the General Election of June 2017 Paola Buonadonna talks to Amit Kara, Head of UK Macroeconomic Forecasting about the state of infrastructure in the UK: is it time to build?

In the run-up to the General Election of June 2017 Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR Associate Reserach Director Heather Rolfe about perceptions and reality in the debate about immigration.

Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR economist James Warren about the UK economic landscape, based on NIESR's latest quarterly forecast published in the May Economic Review - the last one ahead of the UK General Election.

NIESR forecaster James Warren tells Paola Buonadonna how the Institute the UK economy to perform as Brexit negotiations get underway.