In this paper we investigate the size of health differences that exist among men in England and the United States and … health gradient differs for men across the two countries in question. There are a several key findings. First, looking across … a wide variety of diagnosed diseases, average health status among mature men is much worse in America compared to …

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity. Using a new panel of British industries 1983 … productivity. A one percentage point increase in training is associated with an increase in value added per hour of about 0.6% and …

establishments that are always foreign-owned have significantly higher labour productivity than those that remain under domestic … ownership. In addition, labour productivity improves faster over time and faster with age in foreign-owned establishments. The … difference in labour productivity is matched by an equivalent difference in levels of investment per employee. Establishments …

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …

productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …

economically and statistically significant impacton firm-level productivity and market value. Patent citations contain more … (total factor) productivity and an eight percent increase in market value. As expected patenting and citation information … feeds into market values immediately but appears to have some additional lagged effects of productivity suggesting gradual …

Stronger productivity growth in the US than the EU over the late 1990s is widely attributed to faster, more widespread …

' hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using … firmsÒ Total Factor Productivity would have been at least 5% lower in 2000 (about $14bn) in the absence of the US R&D growth …

hours of work are relatively inelastic for men, but are a little more responsive for married women and lone mothers. On the … form a discrete participation model for both married and single men based on the numerous reforms over the past two decades … in the UK. We find that the participation of low education men is somewhat more responsive to incentives than previously …

Recent attention has focused on the UK's productivity gap in the retail sector. Figure 1 shows an estimate of labour … productivity in retail across countries, using output per hour worked. The UK lies well behind the US, France and Germany. Reynolds … evidence points to the fact that, on average, productivity in this sector in the UK is low and has grown slowly over recent …