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wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …
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decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization … relationship is complex, and identification of the productivity effects of organizational practices remains a challenge for future …
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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...
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …
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the years of Conservative government, 1979-97. We focus on measures of business performance, especially productivity … growth. This is a key economic indicator as in the long run, productivity determines material wellbeing - wages and … consumption. Productivity determines the size of the "economic pie" available to the citizens of a country. …
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&D knowledge located in the US. The positive influence on total factor productivity is larger if the research of the inventors …
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Pessoa and John Van Reenen. Their investigation of claims that wage growth has become 'decoupled' from productivity growth … education distribution will boost productivity and real wages. …
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The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US "productivity miracle" is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
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We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from more than 900 medium sized manufacturing firms across Europe and the US. Our measures of managerial practices are strongly associated with several measures of firm level performance. Management practices display...
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John Van Reenen examines the 'unbalancing' of Britain's economy away from manufacturing since 1979.
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