are treated differently by welfare policy. We attribute the disparities to the countries' tax and subsidy policies. High …

maintenance of the welfare state, not as a dead-weight burden. It sets recent developments in the UK tax ratio in the context of … effects of both tax and spending. It then discusses tax and transfer policy since the change of governance in May 1997 in the … four Labour Budgets since July 1997 with those which would have resulted from simply indexing the April 1997 tax and social …

United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …

This paper uses new product-specific, micro-level US data to show that New England had lower levels of productivity in …-abundant country – has higher labour productivity contradicts the Rothbarth-Habakkuk model. We suggest Britain’s industrial success …

We study the productivity of US owned plants in the UK. Using a new dataset that identifies foreign and domestic MNEs …

companies with higher wages, higher productivity and higher capital intensity. The ‘blip up’ in new recognitions is consistent …

-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …