productivity (TFP) from growth accounting and on aspects of social capability that are conducive to the effective assimilation of … productivity. Incentive structures matter greatly for the adoption of new technology but social capability is not independent of …

We investigate whether and how the type of unemployment benefit institution affects productivity. We designed a field … experiment to compare workers' productivity under a welfare system, where the unemployed receive an unconditional monetary … transfer, with their productivity under a workfare system, where the transfer is received conditional on the unemployed …

lower productivity. Second, within the laboratory, we design two randomized controlled trials. Some individuals are … deliberately made happier, while those in a control group are not. The treated individuals have 10-12% greater productivity than …

This paper reviews selected aspects of the history of UK supply-side policy in terms of their productivity implications …. An important change after the 1970s which improved productivity performance was the adoption of policies to end …

This paper examines the role of competition in productivity performance in Britain over the period from the late … 1930s to the 1970s undermined productivity growth but since the 1970s stronger competition has been a key ingredient in … ending relative economic decline. The productivity implications of the retreat from competition resulted in large part from …