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Peter Dickinson, Senior Research Fellow at IER, has been appointed to the . The panel provides advice and support to central and local government on the design and implementation of evaluations of local economic policies. It helps ensure evaluations are high quality and supports policymakers in developing their evaluation skills, knowledge and capacity. Over the longer term, it will also expand the evidence have about ‘what works’.

Peter has also been appointed to the roster of consultants providing advice, expertise and support on skills policy and practice.

Despite information failures in the labour market and their consequences on unemployment and informality rates, countries like Colombia lack a proper labour market information system to identify skill mismatches and employer skill requirements.

The use of online job portals as a potential source of labour market information has recently gained researchers’ and policymakers' attention. However, debates continue about the efficacy and robustness of job portals for labour market analysis.

This new by Jeisson Arley Cardenas Rubiocontributes to our current understanding of the topic by developing a conceptual and methodological approach to identify skills, occupations, and skill mismatches using online job advertisements, which would otherwise be too complex to analyse.

Chris Warhurst has been invited to address Scotland's Climate Assembly, giving evidence on sustainable working practices.

His evidence, presented on 24 January, focuses on three issues: the greening of the labour market, the quality of green jobs and ensuring access to these jobs by marginalised workers. Watch a short video .

The Assembly will develop recommendations for the Scottish Government.

Britain produces too much of relatively low value compared with many of its western counterparts. This is despite the country being a world leader in many industries. It is the country’s perennial productivity problem.

While India’s low female labour force participation has been studied extensively in the recent literature, an aspect that has received insufficient attention is the dynamic nature of employment – that is, individuals enter and exit the workforce at various points in time.

Analysing India Human Development Survey data from 2004-05 and 2011-12, this article shows that women have lower entry rates and higher exit rates vis-à-vis men, both in the short and long term. Read more in this blog, published in Ideas for India, .

* Soham Sahoo, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore