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The authors reckon that this change could increase employment in Britain by 52, 000, or 0.2%.
ECONOMIST: A new report lays out a blueprint for the ideal tax system
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The authors reckon the surge in offshoring since the mid-1990s has created 100, 000 extra jobs.
ECONOMIST: New evidence shows that the gains outweigh the losses
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Rich countries determined to nudge along the process of institutional development should recognise their limitations, the authors reckon.
ECONOMIST: Creating economic wealth
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The authors reckon that, though the number of attacks and injuries has fallen since 2001, deaths have risen.
ECONOMIST: Anti-terrorist spending
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The authors reckon that legalised abortion may account for half of the fall in crime of the 1990s.
ECONOMIST: Economics focus
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In the face of declining returns, the authors reckon, the natural response of managers would have been to increase leverage.
ECONOMIST: The peril for markets when computers miscalculate
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State debt appears to be quite low by international standards (just under 20% of GDP) but when all government obligations are lumped together, the authors reckon it is actually 76%.
ECONOMIST: China's financial system
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The authors reckon this slice of the population has almost doubled in size in six years, from 27% in 2005 to 50% in 2011, so its preferences explain the change in the figures.
ECONOMIST: Banyan
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In all, the authors reckon that the total public cost of the crisis in the financial system will come to 20% of GDP, which is more than any other country except the Irish Republic.
BBC: Icelandic lessons for the eurozone
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This looks unrealistic, the authors reckon.
ECONOMIST: Free exchange
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The authors of the study reckon that it is difficult to address risky sexual behaviour when a significant segment of the population strongly believes that such behaviour is morally wrong.
ECONOMIST: Sexual preaching, sexual practice
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The Global Insight authors reckon this is a problem only in principle, not practice.
ECONOMIST: Measuring the Wal-Mart effect
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These dynamics will continue, but also change, reckon the authors of the study.
ECONOMIST: Unbalanced skill levels could make the world more unequal