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⬇️Blog here describing how I will use LEO data for my ADR UK fellowship. I really care about this topic - geographical and social mobility - and feel extremely lucky to have the chance to work on this with some amazing coauthors @lindsey_mac Xiaowei Xu

Some initial results on the minimum wage and firms’ pay structures: ➡️NLW led to wage compression in highly exposed firms ➡️Highly exposed firms increased pay of workers just above NLW, partly maintaining pay differentials ➡️No obvious changes in occupational structure

Young people's mental health has deteriorated more quickly than that of older people since 2011. Since #COVID distress, feeling overwhelmed, fear and anxiety and suicidal thoughts decline with age in 34 countries nber.org/papers/w32337?… Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman Xiaowei Xu UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)

In the second half of his The New York Times newsletter Peter Coy presents the key finding from our recent NBER working paper showing mental ill-health now falls with age in the #USA Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman Xiaowei Xu UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)

Nice piece by ⁦RTLarryElliott⁩ in todays ⁦The Guardian⁩ on the mental health of the young discussing my ⁦NBER⁩ paper with ⁦Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman⁩ and ⁦Xiaowei Xu⁩ here nber.org/papers/w32337 ⁦UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)⁩ ⁦Institute for Fiscal Studies⁩ theguardian.com/business/artic…

OBR assume that 76% of the rise in employer NICs will be passed onto workers through lower real wages. Sounds like a tax on working people...

The thing about "the UK’s tax burden is now at a record high", is that this is also true for almost all countries 📈

Yesterday’s Budget raised the relative cost of using: 📈 employees v contractors 📈 low-paid v high-paid staff 📈 labour v capital This will have consequences on the labour market, whether intended or not.