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#ElectionEconomics: The Research Evidence on Key Issues for Voters in the 2015 UK General Election
Azmat, Ghazala; Bell, Brian; Colmer, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269056
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Span of Control and Span of Activity
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella; Wulf, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
For both practitioners and researchers, span of control plays an important role in defining and understanding the role of the CEO. In this paper, we combine organizational chart information for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010543481
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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721416
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Austerity: Growth Costs and Post-Election Plans
Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
The austerity programme of the coalition government knocked at least one percent per year off growth in the first two years of this Parliament. In retrospect, this looks like a mistake and the slower pace of austerity in 2012 to 2013 and thereafter was welcome (as was the setting up of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196719
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Productivity and Business Policies
Roland, Isabelle; Valero, Anna - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
UK productivity stagnated after the Great Recession of 2008-09 and remains about 15 percent below historical trends …. This 'productivity puzzle' is due to a mixture of cyclical and structural effects - the fall is not entirely permanent; and … average. Chronically low investment especially in infrastructure and innovation, poor management and weak intermediate skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011203044