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Sarah Oconnor

Sarah Oconnor

Financial Times

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Anatomy of a jobs promise

Eye-catching boosterism about employment from new projects does not always stand up to scrutiny

21.01.2025 10

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Sarah Oconnor

Age is more than a number when it comes to policy

Why how long people have been alive is not a good yardstick for judging who is ‘old’

14.01.2025 10

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Sarah Oconnor

How much sick pay is too much sick pay?

The contrasting cases of Germany and the UK are revealing about policy trade-offs

07.01.2025 9

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Are we becoming a post-literate society?

Technology has changed the way many of us consume information, from complex pieces of writing to short video clips

26.12.2024 40

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The gig economy is coming to a shop near you

Apps that let retailers hire freelance staff by the shift are increasing in popularity

17.12.2024 8

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Sarah Oconnor

Economists need to get their story straight on immigration

Focusing on the impact on the wages or employment levels of native workers is too narrow

10.12.2024 5

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We’re all suffering from qualitynesia now

Borne along on the tide of technology, it is far too easy to forget that some things really were better quality in the past

03.12.2024 5

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Why the public doesn’t buy the idea of a ‘green jobs’ bonanza

People understand that transitions are hard — politicians need to as well

26.11.2024 2

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Can Labour improve job quality without squandering quantity?

Big policy interventions are always a leap in the dark

19.11.2024 3

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Sarah Oconnor

The very human problem with not-quite-self-driving cars

The better an automated system performs, the more complacent — and dangerous — we become

12.11.2024 7

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Sarah Oconnor