ONS has taken a lot of stick recently over problems with core economic statistics, but its response today on the public finance stats - setting out what happened and a path forward - is a frank and useful explainer from the new team that's to be welcomed. blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/10/08/a...

What does this mean for how we understand jobs, unemployment, and the labour market?

Read @stuartgmcintyre.bsky.social on what’s been going wrong with labour market statistics – and what’s at stake. 👇 🔗 buff.ly/sfvLfFo

The quality & trustworthiness of economic statistics have been in the news on both sides of the Atlantic - what's been going on?

@stuartgmcintyre.bsky.social @econ-observatory.bsky.social

www.economicsobservatory.com/labour-marke...

@stuartgmcintyre.bsky.social presents ESCoE work with @fraserofallander.org using innovative time-series methods to assess how UK regions respond to business cycle & monetary policy shocks.
 
#EconStats2025

Finally @stuartgmcintyre.bsky.social presents preliminary work on measuring regional resilience to economic shocks. Finding measures for resistance, recovery, renewal and reorientation.

Two days to go to apply for a Lectureship (Teaching and Research) at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social economics!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM015/l...

The long shortlist for the 2024 Enlightened Economist book of the year www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p... (NB my entirely arbitrary and personal choice)

Lots of political arguments in the weeks ahead about plans to remove the UC two-child limit in Scotland, but those aside an important process point - this is a £200m+ a year commitment which has not been costed because it was added too late... #scotbudget fiscalcommission.scot/wp-content/u...

And now @econ-observatory.bsky.social is here too!

🤖New working paper🤖

Those from low SES backgrounds are less likely to enter "elite" occupations than their high SES peers, even when they have the same qualifications.

But are low SES individuals less likely to enter high quality jobs in general?

repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeowp24…

New report from @theifs.bsky.social highlighting new disability claimants are:
a) younger
b) more likely to claim due to mental health problems
c) women
Really worrying trend here with longer term implications
ifs.org.uk/publications...

A literature review on the impact of minimum wages on low-wage labor markets, from Arindrajit Dube and Attila S. Lindner https://www.nber.org/papers/w32878

🚨Job alert!🚨

Our group (@buwheelock.bsky.social @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social) is hiring an Assistant Professor of Education Policy.

Description below, along with a link to apply. I'm chairing the search, so reach out and spread the word.

Come work with us!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28451

Thanks - giving this a go for a bit!