We analyse productivity growth in UK manufacturing 1980-92 using the newly available ARD panel of establishments drawn … establishments enter and increase market share). We find that (a) 'external restructuring' accounts for 50% of labour productivity …

We construct firm-level data set with matched productivity and qualification data by linking the Annual Business … as part-time status and gender on both productivity and wages in English firms. We also investigate how productivity … returns follows from part-timers, who tend to work for firms that pay too low wages for the observed productivity differences …

This note responds to a critique of our recent paper, “Can Intangible Investment Explain the UK Productivity Puzzle …, the puzzle is that measured labour productivity has been falling, but labour quality is rising, so, at least on this … measure, changes in labour quality cannot explain falling productivity. …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. …

we use data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for … civil or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government …

An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled … use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms to explore convergence to the national frontier. Given this within …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. …

Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more …

exporting and TFP growth, is mixed. We use a UK panel data set with firm-level information on exporting and productivity. Our … they learnt from other sources) in the past are more likely to then have productivity growth. This suggests some support …

This paper investigates whether intangibles might explain the UK productivity puzzle. We note that since the recession … intangible investment can therefore account for around 5 percentage points of the 16 per cent productivity puzzle. …