The productivity performance of the UK economy in the period 1990-2007 was excellent. Based entirely on pre-crisis data … discuss a wide range of hypotheses which seek to explain the productivity collapse, including the impact of austerity. Most of … financial crises, particularly banking crises, on productivity, capital, TFP and employment. Based on a cross-country panel …

It is widely believed that in the US wage growth has fallen massively behind productivity growth. Recently, it has also … track real labour productivity growth (value added per hour), so net decoupling should only occur if labour's share falls as …

Do "Anglo-Saxon" management practices generate higher productivity only at the expense of lousy work-life balance (WLB … tool that companies can use to raise productivity. We try to shed some empirical light on these issues using an innovative … the optimistic "winwin" view that work-life balance improves productivity in its own right. Rather we find support for a …

relationship with improved productivity and profits. …

, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …

Pessoa and John Van Reenen. Their investigation of claims that wage growth has become 'decoupled' from productivity growth … education distribution will boost productivity and real wages. …

that this quantitative approach typically abstracts from: trade-induced changes in domestic productivity. Using a model of … sequential production, in which trade induces a reorganization of production that raises domestic productivity, we show that the …