three questions (a) What is the source of knowledge flows? (b) To what extent do such flows contribute to productivity …

failure of meritocracy that reduces a firm’s Total Factor Productivity. We present a simple model that studies the … Factor Productivity. …

Over the period since 1970, Britain has improved its relative productivity performance, but there remains a significant … gap in market sector productivity between Britain and both Continental Europe and the United States. Much of the gap …

We investigate labor productivity dynamics amongst British businesses in the wake of the credit crisis of 2007/8. The … external restructuring of firms (i.e. changes in market share, firm entry and exit) contributed to a fall in productivity … productivity growth following the credit crisis was accounted for by a widespread productivity shock within firms, pointing to the …

We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change (∆O) using UK firm … effect on productivity growth, (c) non-IT investment and ∆O do not interact in their effect on productivity growth. Some new …

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 …