Technology, offshoring and the rise of non-routine jobs
| Date: | 10 September 2018 |
In research published in the Journal of Development Economics, Laurie Reijnders and Gaaitzen de Vries analyse the worldwide increase in the share of non-routine jobs. They find that, in particular, technology has led to a global increase in this share,...
Marcel Timmer honoured
| Date: | 10 September 2018 |
Marcel Timmer has been named this year's Outstanding Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business by the SOM Research Institute. This designation honours Marcel's path-breaking research, as evidenced by a large volume of high-impact studies,...
Brexit research at ERSA
| Date: | 10 September 2018 |
At the latest conference of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Bart Los, together with Phillip McCann, Raquel Ortega-Argilés and Frank van Oort, organised a session on Brexit. The presentations focused on (e.g.) the regional disparities of...
Income and Wealth conference activity
| Date: | 10 September 2018 |
At the latest General Conference of the International Association of Research in Income and Wealth, GGDC researchers contributed substantially to the program:
Inequality moves in cycles
| Date: | 10 September 2018 |
New research by Herman de Jong and María Gómez León, published in the Economic History Review, examines inequality in Germany and the United Kingdom in the first half of the twentieth century. Over this period, the developments have mirrored each other in...
Online prices for real consumption comparisons
| Date: | 11 July 2018 |
Robert Inklaar and Marcel Timmer published a paper in the AEA Papers and Proceedings on using online prices for comparisons of real consumption levels across countries (open access version here), jointly with Alberto Cavallo (HBS), Erwin Diewert (UBC) and ...
PWT 9.1: Release information
| Date: | 11 July 2018 |
Work on a new version of the Penn World Table (PWT) is progressing and has advanced to the point where we can provide more information on the timing and content of this new release:
Timmer on Trump's Trade War
| Date: | 10 July 2018 |
Marcel Timmer is interviewed by the Dutch newspaper NRC on the effects of import tariffs on cars. These have been threatened by Trump and would aim to shift car production to the United States. Such tariffs would hurt Americans by making cars more...
Productivity and value chains at World KLEMS conference
| Date: | 14 June 2018 |
Marcel Timmer, Robert Inklaar and Jop Woltjer were amongst the presenters at the Fifth World KLEMS conference, organised by Dale Jorgenson and others at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government on June 4–5. Presentations included discussion of the...
Piketty gives Maddison lecture
| Date: | 01 June 2018 |
On May 23, Thomas Piketty gave the Maddison lecture, on the topic of globalization and inequality. See here for some highlights and how Piketty's work relates to research of GGDC.