External publications

Book

Why Immigration Policy Is Hard: And How to Make It Better

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Alan Manning

28 November 2025

Chapter

Immigration, diversity and innovation in cities and regions

in A Research Agenda for Migration and Innovation

This chapter investigates the interplay between immigrant diversity and innovation, emphasizing the urban and regional dimensions where these effects are most pronounced. Cities and urban areas are pivotal to the generat...Read more...

Abigail Cooke, Thomas Kemeny, Max Nathan and Ceren Ozgen

9 September 2025

External report

Policy Landscape 2025:

Housing (chapter)

As Parliament returns from its summer recess, the Resolution Foundation and UK in a Changing Europe have partnered to produce the Policy Landscape 2025 report - a series of evidence-led, research-based assessments of the...Read more...

Paul Cheshire

2 September 2025

External report

Innovation in Green Technologies

Demand for cleaner, more efficient technologies is transforming global markets and with it, the geography of innovation. Over the last 15 years, markets for new energy technologies and climate resilience have outpaced gr...Read more...

Samuel Asuquo Edet, Chiara Criscuolo, Ejona Fuli, Selin Gonca Ozyurt, Ralf Martin, Chhavi Rastogi, Samuel Rosenow, Fabian Scheifele, Trang Thu Tran, Verena Wiedemann, Nadege Yameogo and Golvine de Rochambeau

15 July 2025

External report

The 2025 UK Wellbeing Report

Nearly 7 million UK people - around 13% of the population aged 16 and above - are estimated to be living below the Happiness Poverty Line. The World Wellbeing Movement defines the Happiness Poverty Line as those who rat...Read more...

Maria Cotofan, Sarah Cunningham, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Richard Layard and Ben Wealthy

18 June 2025

External report

A joined-up approach to UK skills policy

It is generally accepted that skills are a key driver of economic productivity and economic dynamism. They are a means by which individuals and communities can become resilient to social and economic change and are a key...Read more...

Julian Birkinshaw, Richard Blundell, Sarah Cowan, Alfie Denness and Sandra McNally

3 June 2025

External report

World Happiness Report 2025

In this year's issue, we focus on the impact of caring and sharing on people's happiness. Like 'mercy' in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, caring is "twice-blessed" - it blesses those who give and those who receive. In ...Read more...

Lara Aknin, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, John Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Shun Wang

20 March 2025

External report

International Trade: Issue 2

Over the last four decades, many developing countries initiated reforms that have lowered barriers to trade. Yet despite these reforms, developing countries still remain far less open than developed ones, both because of...Read more...

David Atkin, Laura Boudreau, Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Amit Khandelwal, Isabela Manelici, Brian McCaig, Pamela Medina, Ameet Morjaria, Luigi Pascali, Heitor Pellegrina, Bob Rijkers and Meredith Startz

27 February 2025

Book

Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters

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Jan Emmanuel de Neve and George Ward

27 February 2025

Chapter

WELLBY

in Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics

The WELLBY is a measure of individual subjective wellbeing, as judged by individuals themselves, capturing both the quality of life and the length of life. We outline its use for measuring social progress and for social ...Read more...

Paul Frijters and Christian Krekel

20 February 2025

External report

Foreign Direct Investment

Multinational enterprises are at the centre of policy debates in low- and middle-income countries. As some of the most productive and innovative firms in the world, which are at the core of global supply chains, multinat...Read more...

Vanessa Alviarez, Laura Boudreau, Evangelina Dardati, Jingting Fan, Farid Farrokhi, Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman, Stefania Garetto, Grace Gu, Galina Hale, David Hemous, Nicola Limodio, Pierre Louis Vezina, Isabela Manelici, Ralf Martin, Nicolas Morales, Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, Nina Pavcnik, Heitor Pellegrina, Natalia Ramondo and Jose P Vasquez

12 February 2025

Chapter

New technologies and evolving market structures

in Handbook on Labour Markets in Transition

This Chapter investigates the relationship between technological changes, labour market frictions, and firms' labour market power. We provide guidance through the main trends that characterised labour markets during the ...Read more...

Monica Langella and Valeria Zurla

10 December 2024

Chapter

The green transition: understanding and managing impacts for workers

in Handbook on Labour Markets in Transition: Promoting Resilience in a World in Flux.

The transition to net zero will have far-reaching and unequal effects on labour markets, as some jobs disappear, existing jobs change, and new jobs aligned with or supportive of the net-zero objective are created. The ev...Read more...

Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

10 December 2024

Chapter

Crime and the labor market

in Handbook of Labor Economics

The economics of crime has emerged as a critical field over the past 30 years, with economists increasingly exploring the causes and consequences of criminal behavior. This chapter surveys key contributions and developme...Read more...

Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin and Paolo Pinotti

4 December 2024

External report

The goal of well-being and the United Nations Summit of the Future

How can we get the different sectors of society to collaborate to overcome the challenges we face? The answer has to be "Get them to address a common goal"....Read more...

Richard Layard

5 November 2024

Chapter

Happiness and spatial inequality: past, present, and future

in Encyclopedia of Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Wellbeing

Why are people happier in certain places as opposed to others? Understanding why people choose to live in a certain area, the elements they take into account when making this decision, and the value that they place on ea...Read more...

Maria Cotofan

30 August 2024

Chapter

World Happiness Report: origins, purpose, contents, impact and future

in Encyclopedia of Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Wellbeing

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Lara Aknin, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, John Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Shun Wang

30 August 2024

Chapter

Money and happiness

in Encyclopedia of Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Wellbeing

Many people believe that earning more money would bring more happiness into their lives. However, despite massive improvements in material living conditions in most Western countries, average population happiness has sta...Read more...

Remy Bellaunay, Christian Krekel and Alberto Prati

30 August 2024

Chapter

Individual wellbeing and cortisol

in Encyclopedia of Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Wellbeing

The variety and the number of ways of measuring individual wellbeing has increased over the past two decades. In addition to all self-reported measures, researchers also consider a wide variety of objectively-measured in...Read more...

Daniela Andren, Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Sune Karlsson and Niklas Pettersson

30 August 2024

Chapter

Housing

in General Election 2024: Manifesto Analysis

The report contains chapters on growth; public spending; tax policy; living standards; housing; education/schools; further and higher education; energy and net zero; environment and farming; health; managed migration; sm...Read more...

Paul Cheshire

21 June 2024

External report

A generation at risk: rebalancing education in the post-pandemic era

We present for the first time a model of children's evolving socio-emotional and cognitive skills to assess how the educational and lifetime prospects of children of different ages, genders and socio-economic backgrounds...Read more...

Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles, Esme Lillywhite and Stephen Machin

24 April 2024

Chapter

Levelling up

in Labour Economics: Thinking through Labour's economic agenda

This essay collection, drawing together contributions from some of the UK's most notable economic analysts, all writing from a politically independent standpoint, as 'critical friends', is an attempt to identify and arti...Read more...

Henry G. Overman

22 April 2024

Chapter

Labour market reform

in Labour Economics: Thinking through Labour's economic agenda

This essay collection, drawing together contributions from some of the UK's most notable economic analysts, all writing from a politically independent standpoint, as 'critical friends', is an attempt to identify and arti...Read more...

Alan Manning

22 April 2024

Chapter

Net zero and sustainable growth

in Labour Economics: Thinking through Labour's economic agenda

This essay collection, drawing together contributions from some of the UK's most notable economic analysts, all writing from a politically independent standpoint, as 'critical friends', is an attempt to identify and arti...Read more...

Anna Valero

22 April 2024

Chapter

Housing and planning

in Labour Economics: Thinking through Labour's economic agenda

This essay collection, drawing together contributions from some of the UK's most notable economic analysts, all writing from a politically independent standpoint, as 'critical friends', is an attempt to identify and arti...Read more...

Paul Cheshire

22 April 2024