Since 1979 productivity growth in Britain has improved markedly compared with Europe. The turnaround in productivity …

leading to poor productivity performance are the most plausible explanation of Britain's relative decline. It is argued both …

, explains the initial rise in unemployment. The reduction in union power also helps to explain the acceleration in productivity … low wages and productivity. A fall in union power results in a reduction in these inefficiencies and leads not only to a … rise in productivity but also in wages. …

consumption index. Such a weighting procedure was originally recommended by Turvey and Nobay in a seminal article in 1965 and … their 'Net Energy Expenditure' index is extended in this paper to provide a time series for the United Kingdom running from … 1954 to 1980. The value of such an index lies in its use for economic analysis: e.g. assessing trends in energy …

errors of returns under serial correlation. The repeat sales methodology is generally used to construct an index of prices or …

reconcile the conflicting primal and dual estimates of productivity growth over the period. …

-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the nature …