education distribution will boost productivity and real wages. … Pessoa and John Van Reenen. Their investigation of claims that wage growth has become 'decoupled' from productivity growth … finds that decoupling has been overstated and cannot be used to justify redressing the balance between wages and profits …

It is widely believed that in the US wage growth has fallen massively behind productivity growth. Recently, it has also … than median wages. We distinguish between "net decoupling" - the difference in growth of GDP per hour deflated by the GDP … hour deflated by the GDP deflator and median wages deflated by a measure of consumer price inflation. We would expect that …

century? After years of inadequate investment in skills, infrastructure and innovation, there are longstanding structural …

much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average. Immigrants, especially in recent years, tend to be younger and …

have been exaggerated. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average … have experienced greater downward pressure on wages and greater competition for jobs than others, but these effects still …

still not, on average, materialised. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on …

wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …