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The UK Productivity and Jobs Puzzle: Does the Answer Lie in Labour Market Flexibility?

Pessoa, Joao Paulo; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a large fall in real wages and increases in the cost of capital. In previous … recessions real wages did not fall, but reforms to union strength and welfare have made wages more sensitive to negative demand … misallocation. The fall in labour productivity is therefore likely to reverse if demand improves - e.g. through stronger monetary or …

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Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage over the Medium-Term

Dolton, Peter; Rosazza-Bondibene, Chiara; Wadsworth, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using variation in the bite of the NMW across local labour markets and the different sized year on year up...

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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century

Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...

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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century

Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank

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Public Programs, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Chile

Alvarez, Roberto; Crespi, Gustavo; Cuevas, Conrado - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …

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Public Programs, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Chile

Alvarez, Roberto; Crespi, Gustavo; Cuevas, Conrado - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …

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Biomarkers and Long-term Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine

Bockerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Hakulinen, Christian; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

muscles. Our findings are consistent with high energy levels, induced by creatine, leading to productivity-enhancing traits …

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Innovation and Employment Growth in Costa Rica: A Firm-level Analysis

Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular the research focuses on the differential effects of product and …

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Innovation and Employment Growth in Costa Rica: A Firm-level Analysis

Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Alvarez, Juan A.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular the research focuses on the differential effects of product and …

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Does the Stopler-Samuelson Theorem Explain the Movement in Wages?: The Linkage between Trade and Wages in Latin American Countries

Shinkai, Naoko - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

prices and wages of certain types of workers (specific factors in industries) when they are not used intensively. The …

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