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UK economic performance since 1997: growth, productivity and jobs
Corry, Dan; Valero, Anna; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
the years of Conservative government, 1979-97. We focus on measures of business performance, especially productivity …
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What are financial journalists for?
Tambini, Damian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
structure the practice of financial and business journalism. This paper focuses in particular on what role financial journalists … role in corporate governance, and its impact on market behaviour. I develop the notion that financial and business … attempt to perform it. It emerges that there is no consensus among financial and business journalists about their “watchdog …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071271
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The interrelationship between HR, strategy and profitability in service SMEs: empirical evidence from the UK tourism hospitality and leisure sector
Georgiadis, Andreas; Pitelis, Christos N. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
We investigate the strategies, HR attributes and their synergies that are associated with superior performance in service SMEs using data from the UK Tourism Hospitality and Leisure (THL) sector. A major advantage of our analysis is that our sample includes information also on very small firms...
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Mapping the two faces of R&D : productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884706
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Labor market institutions, wages and investment
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
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Market Forces Shaping Human Capital in Eighteenth Century London
van der Beek, Karine; Justman, Moshe - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2013
We draw on quantitative and descriptive data from Robert Campbell's widely cited manual for prospective apprentices, The London Tradesman (1747), to demonstrate the responsiveness of apprenticeship in mid-eighteenth century London to market forces of supply and demand. We regress apprenticeship...
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Maternal Health and Fertility: An International Perspective
Albanesi, Stefania - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2013
This paper examines the impact of the decline in maternal mortality on fertility and women's human capital. Fertility theory suggests that a permanent decline in maternal mortality initially increases fertility and generates a permanent rise in women's human capital, relative to men. The...
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Private sector employment growth, 1998-2004: a panel analysis of British workplaces
Bryson, Alex; Nurmi, Satu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Using nationally representative panel data for British private sector workplaces this paper points to the importance of distinguishing between workplace and firm size when analysing employment growth, and finds that the factors associated with growth differ markedly between single independent...
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Ownership and managerial competition: employee, customer, or outside ownership
Bolton, Patrick; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
This paper centres around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers and employees’ incentives to invest in human capital. We argue that employees’ incentives in human capital investment are affected by both ownership and competition since...
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