EVENT - Join us at an upcoming event focused on how to understand & address educational inequalities in Scotland & the other devolved nations, in partnership with Strathclyde Business School & UofG Social Sciences! Find out more and sign up to join us on 20 May! #EconTwitter buff.ly/3WaMxsL

Funded PhD to study multi-level voting in Scotland using the Scottish Election Study 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗳️ data - pls encourage up and coming scholars to apply to work with Ailsa Henderson and me as we work to build the pool of ECRs working on Scottish Politics! sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/un…

Pleased that we Scottish Fiscal Commission have published this important paper today👇. Lots to digest. Key takeaway for me – lots of (good) ambition about tackling climate change and transition to net zero, but Scottish Government fiscal implications significant & complex. (1) bit.ly/FSPclimatechan…

🚨🚨🚨Workshop on the gender wage gap in the UK, 5th of June, few places left! We encourage ECR to attend! Here’s the link to register:

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Great initiative here for 3rd or 4th year undergraduate students in Scotland to get experience undertaking a placement in Summer 2024. Details below.

some fascinating stats in this thread, including the alarming stat that 18% of primary school children and 27% of secondary pupils are persistently absent

Don't forget—it's the final day to submit to the brilliant ESCoE conference which this year is in Manchester (could it get any better??)

If you want to talk economic measurement in a friendly setting, there's no greater conference.

Submissions close at midnight GMT!

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It's here! Our latest issue is out now 📢⚡

2023 marked the tercentenary of Adam Smith's birth. In this special issue, expert scholars unpack the ongoing relevance of his thinking today 💡

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Cambridge University Press - Academic Cambridge Economics Cambridge Core

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This is the first of a series of threads looking back at the UK economy in 2023. Today, my focus is on the labour market. The usual disclaimers apply…
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The Nature article on degrowth is incredible. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Lots of focus in the Scottish Budget on income tax changes. Three charts worth highlighting. First: what does this mean for individual taxpayers with different income levels in Scotland relative to rUK (chart from Scottish Fiscal Commission). Its report is here: fiscalcommission.scot/publications/s…

Marginal tax rates in Scotland on income between £100,000 and £125,000 will be 69.5%. Explained here:
thetimes.co.uk/article/3977b9…
No OECD country hits that rate:
stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?Dat…
Not much will be raised and optics for investors/high skilled migrants not good.