wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …

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 …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

more than 30,000 establishments, gathered in the first large-scale survey of management practices in America, finds that … that there is huge variation in management in America: for example, establishments in America's South and Midwest have more … structured management practices on average than those in the Northeast and West. Higher management scores have a strong …

The Census Bureau recently conducted a survey of management practices in over 30,000 plants across the US, the first … large-scale survey of management in America. Analyzing these data reveals several striking results. First, more structured … management practices are tightly linked to higher levels of IT intensity in terms of a higher expenditure on IT and more on …

We present a survey of recent contributions in the empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices … and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm … organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in management practices and …

hospitals in a geographical area. We find that higher competition is positively correlated with management quality, measured … using a new survey tool. Adding a rival hospital increases management quality by 0.4 standard deviations and increases … "hidden policies" that could be used in marginal districts to improve hospital management. We also run placebo tests of …

tougher competition does indeed raise productivity and one of the main mechanisms is through improving management practices … management quality boosts productivity. …A classic question in industrial organization is whether competition raises productivity and if so, through what …

measure of the CEO's management style, including the attention devoted to specific subordinates and functions, the time … helpful in interpreting how span of control determines management style. …

John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on …