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The Hill

Cancel the commute: We need new ways to measure productivity at work

In a randomized trial of 1,612 employees at Trip.com, Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom and co-authors found that a two-days-at-home schedule reduced quit rates by one-third without damaging performance.  Nicholas Bl... Read more...

4 August 2026

Business Insider

Tech firms are bringing job interviews back in person to stop AI use, RTO guru says

Nick Bloom, a Stanford economics professor known for his research on remote work, says AI is undermining the virtual coding tests and interviews that tech firms have long used to assess candidates.  Click to open. ... Read more...

31 July 2026

Newsweek Polska

Fool Britannia: Behind the Crown, the UK Is a Country Struggling To Keep Up (C1)

John Van Reenen, Ronald Coase School Professor at the London School of Economics, echoed that hope. "I think the declinist narrative is ridiculously overblown," he told Newsweek. "The most damaging, self-harming ec... Read more...

30 July 2026

Financial Times Free Lunch Newsletter

Why wages and productivity look set to diverge further

But less competitive market environments, which are evident in rising mark-ups and have come about for reasons such as “superstar” companies, create conditions for wage and productivity growth to diverge. The... Read more...

26 July 2026

Financial Times

The five fiscal challenges facing John Healey

Haskel fired a warning shot in testimony to MPs last week, saying he expected somewhat higher interest rates and weaker GDP growth than most analysts had been predicting. Click to open. ... Read more...

21 July 2026

Cyprus Business News

Labour Minister: social security coordination during Cyprus? EU Council Presidency was a landmark achievement

He also referred to the contribution of Nobel laureate economist Professor Christopher Pissarides to the debate and to Cyprus' initiative securing an opinion from the European Economic and Social Committee on job quality... Read more...

21 July 2026

theedgemalaysia.com

The New Global Economy: The Mismeasure of Europe?s Economy

Fellow Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion and his co-authors, for their part, contend that at constant prices, Europe has steadily lost ground since the 1990s. Click to open. ... Read more...

19 July 2026

O Globo

Expectations, Production Functions, Productivity, Input demand

The winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics, Christopher Pissarides, stated that the fear of mass unemployment caused by artificial intelligence is not confirmed by macroeconomic data. Click to open. ... Read more...

17 July 2026

HR Executive

Top economists, Nobel laureates issue urgent AI warning for employers

The list includes key researchers who have helped build the evidence base HR draws on for workforce planning:… Christopher Pissarides of the London School of Economics, who won his Nobel for research on labor mark... Read more...

16 July 2026

DW

AI - Why Europe is falling behind, and how it can catch up

"More than ever, AI will bring creative destruction," Aghion told DW on the sidelines of this year's Brussels Economic Forum. "There will be job destruction. And there will be job creation. If you manage creative destruc... Read more...

16 July 2026

Financial Times

VAT is Andy Burnham's best tool if UK public finances go off track, says OECD

Its report came as Jonathan Haskel, who is set to be the next chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, the UK fiscal watchdog, warned that the continuing threat of inflation meant the government could not afford to... Read more...

15 July 2026

Reuters

France faces debt surge unless spending curbed, report says

The report, prepared by economists Xavier Jaravel, Xavier Ragot, Jean-Luc Tavernier and ​Natacha Valla, projected that France's budget deficit would widen from 5.0% of gross ​domestic product in 2026 to nearl... Read more...

15 July 2026

Malaysia Edge

AI won?t bring back era of rapid growth, says Nobel Prize winner

Christopher Pissarides, who specialises on the impact of automation in work, said as many as four in 10 US and UK jobs would be largely unaffected by AI and cited areas such as nursing and hospitality. Click to open. ... Read more...

7 July 2026

Harvard Business Review

Want workers to reskill? Show them who they can become

In Italy, where public employment agencies offer short, free reskilling classes to equip job seekers for in-demand occupations, so few people have signed up that the government asked Harvard Business School Professor Raf... Read more...

6 July 2026

Insurance Business

Brexit Bregret? Insurance professionals have their say

A Bank of England-backed study published as The Economic Impact of Brexit estimated that, had the referendum produced a different result, the UK economy would now be around 6% larger, with some methodologies suggesting t... Read more...

2 July 2026

Financial Times

Letter - Why Burnham should keep Reeves as chancellor

As Andy Burnham weighs up his chancellor choice, here’s a radical thought: what about keeping Rachel Reeves? John Van Reenen argues the case for continuity. Article in pdf: "Who should be the next chancellor?" by ... Read more...

29 June 2026

The Critic

Haskel's challenge

On Tuesday, Rachel Reeves nominated Professor Jonathan Haskel to be the next chair of the Office of Budget Responsibility. In doing so, she has made him one of the pivotal figures who will determine the parameters within... Read more...

29 June 2026

Financial Times

Can the IT sector solve the UK's growth problem?

John Van Reenen, a London School of Economics professor and former chair of chancellor Rachel Reeves’ council of economic advisers, says that the country is particularly well placed to capitalise on AI because of i... Read more...

29 June 2026

BBC

Brexit cost 6% of UK economy, Bank of England company data suggests

Co-author of the study, British professor Nick Bloom from Stanford University, said the UK was growing fast in the years before Brexit and could have at least partially kept up with the US without the disruption.  ... Read more...

19 June 2026

Aboutict.nl

VivaTech - AI leaves the screen, becomes a force in the physical world

The sluggishness the rest of the continent is struggling with has a recognizable history, according to Xavier Jaravel, professor of economics at the London School of Economics. Europe is losing momentum in productivity g... Read more...

19 June 2026