Research centre · Business & Economics

Centre for Labour Economics & Policy

Wages, training, and the labour market at the regional scale — measured from administrative data and tested against policy pilots.

Lead: Prof. Daniel Whitfield 15 members Founded 2012

Current projects

Apprenticeship wage returns study
Regional skills forecast
Evaluation of a national retraining scheme

Students join projects through dissertations and doctoral places; partners through the contact form.

Returns to level-three apprenticeships in mid-career

Daniel Whitfield, H. Yamada · Labour Market Review, 2024

Skills mismatch and regional wage premia

Daniel Whitfield, T. Lindqvist · Economic Policy Papers, 2023