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century? After years of inadequate investment in skills, infrastructure and innovation, there are longstanding structural …
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The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...
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This paper makes use of the substantial information about the psychological and behavioural development of children by age ten in the 1970 Cohort to predict later, economic outcomes, namely qualifications, employment and earnings. It is found that this previously unobserved individual...
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much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average. Immigrants, especially in recent years, tend to be younger and …
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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 …
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still not, on average, materialised. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on …
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wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …
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growth. This is a key economic indicator as in the long run, productivity determines material wellbeing - wages and … the years of Conservative government, 1979-97. We focus on measures of business performance, especially productivity … consumption. Productivity determines the size of the "economic pie" available to the citizens of a country. …
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growth. This is a key economic indicator as in the long run, productivity determines material wellbeing - wages and … the years of Conservative government, 1979-97. We focus on measures of business performance, especially productivity … consumption. Productivity determines the size of the "economic pie" available to the citizens of a country. …
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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 …
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