Paola Buonadonna discusses NIESR's most recent data releases with Senior Economist Arno Hantzsche. Three years after the vote to leave the EU and in the midst of a Brexit related Conservative Leadership election uncertainty still dominates,

Paola Buonadonna and senior NIESR economist Arno Hantzsche discuss what can be done to mitigate the immediate economic damage of a no-deal Brexit, You can find more information on NIESR's last quarterly forecasts before the UK is due to exit the EU on our website here: https://www.niesr.ac.uk/media/press-release-prospects-uk-economy-13637

Heather Rolfe and David Nguyen discuss the findings of NIESR's latest report on the effects of Brexit-related labour shortages in the UK health and social care sector. You can find the full report here https://www.niesr.ac.uk/publications/brexit-and-health-social-care-workforce-uk and Heather's blog here: https://www.niesr.ac.uk/blog/brexit-risks-putting-social-care-critical-list

As NIESR published its November 2018 Economic Review- an issue devoted to the Institute's 80th birthday - Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR Research Director Peter Dolton about the changing trends in labour economics. Peter's article on the same theme is outside the paywall and available for all to read here: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/002795011824600112

Peter's blog explaining the main ten trends of the last few years is here: https://www.niesr.ac.uk/blog/ten-important-facts-about-uk-labour-market-today

Associate Research Director Heather Rolfe talks to Gary Gibbon, Political Editor of Channel 4 News about what role broadcast media plays in framing people's negative perceptions of immigration.

They talked after the public launch of a new in-depth report by NIESR entitled "Post-Brexit Immigration Policy: Reconciling Public Perceptions with Economic Evidence", funded by the Leverhulme Trust. You can find the report on NIESR's website on www.niesr.ac.uk

Nathan Hudson-Sharp tells Paola Buonadonna that his latest research shows the majority of child and family social workers have very little education and training on gender variance and transgender issues. His report, "Transgender awareness in child and family social work education", was published today by the Department for Education.

The Commentary of the May 2018 NIESR Economic Review argues the time has come to ease fiscal austerity. Paola Buonadonna discusses what options are open to the Government with Arno Hantzsche, a Senior Economist at the Institute.

UK wages have not yet returned to pre-recession levels, despite a very low unemployment rate. Why are UK workers finding it so difficult to negotiate a pay rise? Prof David Bell of Sterling University discusses his latest research - co-authored with Danny Blanchflower - for the February 2018 issue of the NIESR Economic Review.

Paola Buonadonna talks to Lucy Stokes about new research on school performance for the National Institute Economic Review.

This special issue of the Review, out on 7 February 2018, was produced in collaboration with UCL Institute of Education as part of work funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

In the fourth and final episode of a series of podcasts looking ahead to 2018 Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR's Director, Prof Jagjit Chadha, about the price of the exit deal and the economic cost of Brexit.