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 …

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers' convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …