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Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

The recession of 2008-09 inflicted a larger cumulative loss of UK output than any of the previous post-war recessions, yet there has been a relatively low loss of employment, at least so far. Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth look for an explanation.

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The UK Labour Market and the 2008 - 2009 Recession

Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

and fiscal policies during the recession, reductions in real producer wages and relatively buoyant real consumer wages … back and productivity growth remains low, it may be that it will take a long time for employment to return to levels last …

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The Evolution of the Modern Worker: Attitudes to Work

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

This paper examines how employees' experiences of, and attitudes towards, work have changed over the last quarter of a century. It assesses the extent to which any developments relate to the economic cycle and to trends in the composition of the British workforce. Many of the findings are...

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The Economic Performance of UK Cities: Can Urban and Regional Policy Make a Difference to the North-South Divide

Overman, Henry - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

There are large variations in economic performance across UK cities and on some measures, they have widened since the global financial crisis. All main parties promise action to reduce them, but there is little difference between them in terms of the policies that they would pursue to meet this...

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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...

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Long and Short-Term Effects of the Financial Crisis on Labour Productivity, Capital and Output

Oulton, Nicholas; Sebastiá-Barriel, María - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

The behaviour of labour productivity in the United Kingdom since the onset of the recession in early 2008 constitutes a … puzzle. Over four years after the recession began labour productivity is still below its previous peak level. This paper … crisis to have both a short-run effect on the growth rate of labour productivity and a long-run effect on its level is …

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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 …

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Medium and Long Run Prospects for UK Growth in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis

Oulton, Nicholas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

The productivity performance of the UK economy in the period 1990-2007 was excellent. Based entirely on pre-crisis data … discuss a wide range of hypotheses which seek to explain the productivity collapse, including the impact of austerity. Most of … financial crises, particularly banking crises, on productivity, capital, TFP and employment. Based on a cross-country panel …

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