University of Nottingham

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Productivity and the Modern Economy (CBI, ESCoE Grant)

Using CBI business surveys, you will work on understanding business cycles, investment, inventories, capacity and output, real-time economic forecasts, regional and national prospects, by matching CBI and ONS datasets.

Management Practices and Productivity in UK Businesses (ESRC Grant ES/S012729/1)

Using ONS data you will work on management practices and productivity across UK businesses. You will link data to administrative trade records, R&D surveys and patenting data, and business surveys and explore how quality of management practices responded to Brexit and Covid-19.

Measuring the effects of Covid-19 on the UK economy (ESRC Grant ES/V004387/1)

Using Bank of England and ONS surveys, you will work on the business response to Covid-19 for immediate policy and research use. You will match surveys and administrative datasets within the ONS while on secondment, evaluate business productivity, cash flow, debt, changes to working practices, supply chains etc.

You will work with Bank of England, CBI, ESCoE, ONS, will have excellent programming skills and ability to contribute to academic workshops and conferences.

Posts are fixed-term from 1 September 2020; 1&2 available for 18 months and 3 available for 15 months.

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