Congratulations to ESCoE PhD students Richmond Egyei and Oleksii Romanko who graduated today at King’s College London.
Richmond’s PhD ‘Essays on Migration, Networks and Labour Market Transitions‘ consists of four essays that examine migration and labour market outcomes in Ghana and the UK. During his time with ESCoE he contributed to the project ‘Using Administrative Data to Develop New Labour Force and Migration Statistics‘, presenting a poster ‘Immigration Stocks and Flows, APS and Electoral Register Data’ at the ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2021 and co-authoring the ESCoE Discussion Paper ‘Immigration Stocks and Flows, APS and Electoral Register Data‘ and the paper presented at the ESCoE conference in 2020.
Oleksii’s PhD ‘Technology and firm performance: evidence from online data sources’ investigates the implications of modern ICT technologies on private sector firms, assessing both the direct impacts on productivity and the indirect advantages such as companies’ resilience in response to the Covid pandemic. While at ESCoE Oleksii contributed to two ESCoE projects. As part of ‘Measuring Digital Innovation‘, he presented ‘Digital Opportunity: How Cloud Computing Changes the Shape of the UK Economy‘ at the ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2022 as well as a poster ‘Digital Opportunity – How Cloud Computing Changes the Shape of the Economy’ at the 2020 conference. As part of ‘Measuring Human Capital‘ he co-authored the ESCoE Technical Report ‘The use of online job sites for measuring skills and labour market trends: A review.
We wish Richmond and Oleksii all the very best for the future.