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Stuart McIntyre
@stuartgmcintyre.bsky.social

Economics Professor @ Strathclyde University. Own opinions etc. Personal website: https://t.co/vXQXPVXwfW

Economics 56%
Political science 13%

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What kinds of careers can you build in and around research, and how do you get started?

Career stories from ESCoE researchers and staff members.

@joshmartinecon.bsky.social @stuartgmcintyre.bsky.social

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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...

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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
Labour market statistics: what’s been going wrong? - Economics Observatory
No one who pays attention to news about the economy will have missed the recent spell of stories about the quality of economic statistics, not just in the UK but also internationally.  From the…
buff.ly

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

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@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

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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)
2024 in reading: The Enlightened Economist Prize shortlist | The Enlightened Economist
www.enlightenmenteconomics.com

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...

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

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🤖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…

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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...
Health-related benefit claims post-pandemic: UK trends and global context | Institute for Fiscal Studies
How do post-COVID claimants of health-related benefits compare with pre-COVID claimants? Where in the UK are they? How do other countries compare?
ifs.org.uk

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🚨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
Boston University, Wheelock College of Education and Human Development
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NBER @nber.org · Sep 16
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

Thanks - giving this a go for a bit!