Labour market statistics: what’s been going wrong?, Economics Observatory, 29 Aug 2025.
Update: what big policy challenges face Scotland’s next first minister?, with Roy, G., Economics Observatory, 10 May 2024.
What do the latest data tell us about UK wage growth?, Economics Observatory, 12 Jul 2023.
What are some of the big policy challenges facing Scotland’s new first minister?, with Roy, G., Economics Observatory, 26 Mar 2023.
What’s happening in the UK labour market?, Economics Observatory, 14 Feb 2023.
A summary of key findings on how opportunities for homeworking are evolving in the UK based on our analysis of 47 million job advertisements, 2022, with Julia Darby and Graeme Roy, Fraser Economic Commentary.
Higher North Sea revenues: what impact on Scotland’s independence debate?, with Roy, G., Economics Observatory, 15 Sep 2022.
The UK’s regional labour markets: what do the latest data reveal?, Economics Observatory, 19 Aug 2022.
What do new data reveal about the UK’s regional economic performance?, with Roy, G., Economics Observatory, 23 Feb 2022.
Update: How is Scotland’s economy faring in the pandemic?, with Roy, G., Economics Observatory, 14 Feb 2022.
Levelling up: what might it mean for Scotland?, with Roy, G., Economics Observatory, 9 Feb 2022.
Scottish independence: what are the big economic questions?, with Roy, G., Economics Observatory, 24 Jan 2022.
What do the latest data tell us about the UK labour market?, Economics Observatory, 19 Jan 2022.
What’s been happening to employment of young people in the UK?, Economics Observatory, 23 Apr 2021.
What do payroll employment data reveal about UK job losses?, Economics Observatory, 24 Feb 2021.
Has devolution led to different outcomes during the Covid-19 crisis?, with Roy, G., Economics Observatory, 12 Feb 2021.
How is Brexit affecting Scotland’s fishing industry?, with Roy, G., Economics Observatory, 26 Jan 2021.
The productivity puzzle: Looking at how productivity in the UK is measured, 2021, Office for Statistics Regulation.
The output gap: what is it, how can it be estimated and are they fit for policy makers' purposes?, with Darby, J., 2018, Fraser Economic Commentary
Job related training in Scotland – what do the data tell us?, 2017, Fraser Economic Commentary.
The post-crisis labour market and its challenges to policymakers, with Darby, J. , 2014, Fraser Economic Commentary
Nowcasting the Scottish economy, with Allan, G.J., Koop, G., and Smith, P., 2014, Fraser Economic Commentary
Personal indebtedness, spatial effects and crime: a comparison across the urban hierarchy, 2013, Fraser Economic Commentary
Exploring key economic sectors and groups of sectors in Scotland; 1998, 2004, 2007, with Swales. J.K., 2012, Fraser Economic Commentary
Reconsidering the calculation and role of environmental footprints, with De-Fence, J., Jensen, C. D., Munday, M., and Turner, K., 2011, Fraser Economic Commentary
An input-output carbon accounting tool with carbon footprints estimates for the UK and Scotland, with Turner, K., Yamano, N., Druckman, A., Ha, S.J., De-Fence, J., and Munday, M., 2011, Fraser Economic Commentary
Summary paper on the Carbon Accounting methodology applied to the assessment of the Scottish Government's 2010-2011 budget, with Croasdale, S., 2010, Fraser Economic Commentary