In the last CentrePiece, John Van Reenen stressed the importance of competition and labour market flexibility for productivity growth. His latest in CEP's 'big ideas' series describes the impact of research on how policy-makers can influence innovation more directly - through tax credits for...

Guy Michaels and colleagues show how new technologies are polarising the labour market, with the middle-skilled losing out most

John Van Reenen and colleagues measure China's impact on the innovation and productivity performance of European firms

CEP researchers have conducted a unique survey of clinicians and hospital managers to explore how well NHS hospitals are managed

Europe's top prize for economic research John Van Reenen has been jointly awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics 2009.

Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen analyse the role of management practices in driving firm performance and national productivity.

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...

A common view is that the performance of the UK economy between 1997 and 2010 under Labour was very weak and that the current economic problems are a consequence of poor policies in this period. In this report, we analyse the historical performance of the UK economy since 1997 compared with...

Does it matter whether you work for a successful company? And if so, does it matter who you are? To answer these questions we construct a unique panel dataset covering the pay of all CEOs, senior managers and a fully representative sample of workers for a large group of publicly-listed companies...