Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Federico Rossi, University of Warwick, presenting "The Human Side of Structural Transformation". We document that nearly half of the global decline in agricultural employment during the 20th-century was driven by new cohorts entering the labor market. Through the lens of a model of frictional labor reallocation, we conclude that human capital growth, both as a mediating factor and as an independent driver, led to a sharp decline in the agricultural labor supply.

More info to be announced!

This year’s SITE Development Day conference will focus on environmental policy in Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on global warming, energy transformation, and energy security.

More music in the atrium! On December 2, lunchtime, we welcome Asuka Nakamura, piano, and Björn Englund, horn, to the school.

It's time for this year's last AW with the SSE Alumni Network for Health and Life Sciences!

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with David de la Croix, Universite Catholique Louvain, presenting "Nepotism vs. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Academia (1088-1800)". Exploiting multi-generation correlations and parent-child distributional differences, we identify the structural parameters of a Markov process of intergenerational transmission with nepotism.

Department of Economics welcomes you to a webinar with Fabiano Schivardi, LUISS, presenting "Are Executives in Short Supply? Evidence from Death Events". Using administrative data on Italian social security records, we construct measures of local labor market tightness for executives that vary by industry and location. We then show that firm performance is negatively affected by executive death.

This paper investigates the role of sorting between students and higher education programmes in driving social mobility in the UK. A model of education, labour supply and earnings allows for a rich characterisation of heterogeneity in the skills that different educational programmes provide.

This fall the SSE Alumni Office, in collaboration with the UK Friends of SSE, are delighted to invite you to join us for a guided walking tour through Shoreditch with Annika Hall, a qualified Blue Badge Guide for London and fellow SSE alum.

Join this webinar on October 21 to listen to academics and industry experts discuss how shareholders can play a role in tackling climate change.