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 …

The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years …. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive … effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a negative business stealing effects from product market rivals. We develop …

productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is …-level characteristics and the endogeneity of IT use. IT investments do, however, appear to improve police productivity when complemented …

have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a large fall in real wages and increases in the cost of capital. In previous … recessions real wages did not fall, but reforms to union strength and welfare have made wages more sensitive to negative demand … misallocation. The fall in labour productivity is therefore likely to reverse if demand improves – e.g. through stronger monetary or …

: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using …