Productivity and the pandemic : challenges and insights from Covid-19

Contents: Introduction / Philip McCann and Tim Vorley -- 1 The Covid-19 shock: the UK national and regional implications in the light of international evidence / Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés -- 2 Frontier and 'laggard' firms: will there be significant changes to the distribution of productivity post-Covid-19? / Richard Harris -- 3 Firm strategies under Covid-19 induced uncertainty: implications for policy / Vania Sena and Sumon Bhaumik -- 4 Implications and impacts of the crisis on micro businesses and their future / Andrew Henley, Tim Vorley and Cristian Gherhes -- 5 The impact of Covid-19 on entrepreneurial ecosystems / Colin Mason and Michaela Hruskova -- 6 Financing an entrepreneur-led economic recovery: the impact of the coronavirus on business angel investing / Colin Mason -- 7 The implications of a crisis-driven societal shift to online consumption / Stuart Mills, Richard Whittle and Gavin Brown -- 8 The Covid-19 crisis and implications for skills development and the skills system / Anne Green -- 9 Good work and mental health in the post-Covid era / Daniel Kopasker -- 10 Business models, innovation and employees' experiences in the workplace: challenges for the post-Covid-19 economy / Patricia Findlay, Colin Lindsay and Graeme Roy -- 11 Transport, the economy and environmental sustainability post-Covid-19 / Iain Docherty, Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable and Tom Forth -- 12 Sectoral and spatial impacts of the Covid-19 recession / Ben Gardiner, Richard Lewney and Ron Martin -- 13 Cities, innovation and behavioural change: how the machine is evolving / Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson -- 14 Raising productivity and housing the economy / Duncan Maclennan, Julie Tian Miao, Linda Christie and Jinqiao Long -- 15 The paradox of efficiency: why the second-best may help us hedging risks in uncertain times / Ekkehard Ernst -- 16 Seeing the Covid-19 crises through a Minskyian lens: austerity, stratification, and productivity / Gary Dymski and Hanna Szymborska -- 17 How will the effects of Covid-19 on macroeconomic demand and supply affect firm-level productivity? / Don Webber and Gary Dymski -- 18 From systems change to systems changed: assuming a systems-based approach in response to crisis / Jen Nelles, Tim Vorley and Adam Brown -- 19 Active labour market policy in a post-Covid UK: moving beyond a 'work first' approach / Katy Jones -- 20 Recovery and resilience: how can innovation policy support the response / Jonathan Cook and Tim Vorley -- 21 Understanding a pandemic: the power of administrative data / Elizabeth Waind, Felix Ritchie, Nick Bailey and the Administrative Data | Agricultural Research Collection project team: Paul Caskie, Sian Morrison-Rees, Sarah Lowe and Nick Webster -- Index.