The Political Economy of Skills
How do we find out which new skills are required and how do we produce them? Institutions are the answer to both, Bob Hancké argues.
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Bob Hancké
- Oct 23, 2020
- 9 min
Goodhart’s law and the dark side of herd immunity
Read why Goodhart's law tells us that herd immunity undermines its set goal, is technically flawed, and epistemologically wrong.
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Bob Hancké
- Oct 16, 2020
- 4 min
The UK and the EU: Another two-level game
The prospects for a post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU look increasingly bleak. PEACS attempts to make sense of the events.
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Bob Hancké
- Oct 8, 2020
- 4 min
Big shifts: Lessons from the 1980s for the labour market after Covid-19
Read how understanding different adjustment paths can help avoid a second generation of losers from economic restructuring after Covid-19
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Bob Hancké
- Oct 6, 2020
- 3 min
WFH requires a paradigm shift in how we think of work, job autonomy and cooperation
Unless we redesign work tasks into projects with increased team autonomy, organisations are unlikely to reap the benefits of remote working.
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Nicholas Barr
- Sep 30, 2020
- 4 min
Britain’s job support schemes: right direction, more to do
Some jobs will still be viable in a few months’ time. Others won’t. Nicholas Barr (LSE) argues that job support schemes need to go further.
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Bob Hancké
- Sep 30, 2020
- 2 min
On the problem of publicly funding supply side adjustment
The European Recovery Fund is crucial to maintain the functioning of EU economies. However, the real question is what to do with the money?
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Bob Hancké, Toon van Overbeke, and Dustin Voss
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
Anatomy of a wage subsidy
The UK's new wage subsidy scheme is unlikely to work as well as its German counterpart, as many important systemic elements are missing.
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Laurenz Mathei
- Sep 10, 2020
- 5 min
Tony Abbot: the expert the UK has been waiting for?
The controversial appointment of Australian former PM Tony Abbot as trade adviser might be legitimate, but is it really worth the trouble?
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Daniel Beunza and Derin Kent
- Aug 27, 2020
- 4 min
Returning to the office: how to stay connected and socially distant
Working from home or returning to the office? We need to think carefully about future working arrangements to not get stuck in the middle.
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