Report out today with new FOI data breaks down Skilled Worker route certificates of sponsorship & shows which parts of the UK – and which industries – are attracting most skilled worker from overseas (THREAD) migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/repo…

Scotland is also an exception – Skilled Worker CoS there not dominated by healthcare but cover broad range of industries, including education & finance. CoS in Scotland also dropped sharply in pandemic, but not as much as London & SE.

Does rent control work? Economics Observatory economicsobservatory.com/does-rent-cont…

What is #dataviz animation good for? A thread with examples.

Glad to see our paper (w Markus Gehrsitz Stuart McIntyre Gennaro Rossi Graeme Roy) on the effects of multi-grade classes published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics. Link to paper (open access) here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

We're hiring a researcher for our ESCoE project developing methods to analyse regional incomes. Post also incl. work on project WBS to develop methods to analyse real-time, high-frequency economic metrics. Full details below. Please share. jobs.ac.uk/job/DBW977/res…

NEW: How do the different ways pupils are assigned to schools in England and Scotland affect income segregation in schools and neighbourhoods? Read Elaine Drayton, Ellen Greaves and Gennaro Rossi's summary of their report on secondary school segregation: ifs.org.uk/articles/schoo…

We've published provisional long-term international migration estimates, UK, year ending December 2023. • Immigration was 1.2m • Emigration was 532,000 • Provisional net migration (difference between people arriving and people leaving) was 685,000 ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

Border chaos is a symptom of US labor-market needs, in new research by Great interview of Dany on NPR's Planet Money by @VelocityWong & Adrian Ma, +comments by me—> npr.org/transcripts/11… Summary of Dany's research, with link to full paper—> cgdev.org/blog/border-si…

Very excited to see our paper (with Ross McKenzie) on forced migration and local economic development published in the Journal of Development Economics. Link to the paper (open access) here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨 New paper in the Journal of Development Econ. Are migrants from poor countries relatively high or low productivity workers? What happens to migration as incomes rise? Mariapia Mendola and I note: These are closely related questions with a counterintutive answer (thread)

Our econ working paper is online! SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… How does sibling gender composition affect women❔ 🎉Second-born brother boosts first-born women's educational attainment ‼️But reinforcing gender norms: women are less likely to enter male-dominated, higher-wage