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Academic papers - Government reports

• UK R&D Skills Supply and Demand: long-term trends and workforce projections (2025). Department for Science Innovation and Technology (UK Government) (with Anne Green, Abigail Taylor & Daniel Ruggieri)

• The gainers and losers from the United Kingdom’s university-related migration: a sub-regional analysis of Graduate Outcomes Survey data (2024). Population, Space and Place (with Tony Champion & Anne Green)

• The impact of university STEM assets: A systematic review of the empirical evidence (2023). PLoS One (with various co-authors at City-REDI)

• Does R&D investment drive employment growth? Empirical evidence at industry level from Japan (2022). International Journal of Finance & Economics (with Imran Shah, Pak Yee Lee, Issam Malki & Crystal Chu)

• FDI and growth revisited: Does absorptive capacity make the difference? Evidence on threshold effects (with Imran Shah & Brad Saunders) (paper under review – R&R)

• Understanding the uneven geography of Britain’s labour force crisis (with Donald Houston & Maryna Ramcharan) (working paper)

• Labor market inequalities amongst university graduates born in the United Kingdom: What drives wage differentials between ethnic groups? (working paper)

• Dropping out of higher education in the UK: Is ethnicity relevant? (working paper)

Other selected publications

• Skills for the future: Demand for and supply of high-skilled labour across England (2026). The Local Policy Innovation Partnership Hub

• Labour market insights from online job postings in East Birmingham and North Solihull (2026). City-REDI, University of Birmingham (with Anne Green)

• Policy briefing: Understanding the UK’s rise in economic inactivity since 2020 across local labour markets (2025). City-REDI, University of Birmingham (with Donald Houston, Maryna Ramcharan & Paul Sissons)

• Policy change can help manage the demand for graduate knowledge and skills (2025). Wonkhe (with Chris Millward)

• The impact of Artificial Intelligence on jobs, skills and wages (2025), Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce

• Digital skills demand and shortages and their impact on UK regional economies (2024). City-REDI, University of Birmingham (with Huanjia Ma, Anne Green & Matthew Lyons)

• Skills Evidence Review (2024). The Local Policy Innovation Partnership Hub

• Economic Inactivity, Health Conditions, Work-Limiting Health Conditions and EU and Non-EU Populations in NUTS3 Regions of the UK, 2018-2021 (2024). UK Data Service (with Donald Houston)

• Graduate Pathways: Identifying Patterns of Regional Retention and Attraction (2022). WMREDI, University of Birmingham (with Anne Green)

• Key facts and figures about the graduate technical workforce (2022). Higher Education Policy Institute (with Anne Green)

• Regional Brain Drain and Gain in the UK: Regional Patterns of Graduate Retention and Attraction (2021). WMREDI, University of Birmingham (with André Carrascal-Incera, Anne Green, Alex Smith & Abigail Taylor)