Do “Anglo-Saxon” management practices generate higher productivity only at the expense of lousywork-life balance (WLB … tool that companies can useto raise productivity. We try to shed some empirical light on these issues using an innovative …

The UK’s poor productivity performance relative to the US has been a focus for government policy and analysis in recent … productivity (value-added per worker) was just over 40% higher than the UK level in 2001, about the same as it was at the beginning … of the 1990s. The labour productivity gap fell over the early 1990s, when the UK experienced relatively faster growth in …

typicallyproceed along two distinct paths, resorting either to the presence of real shocks suchas productivity differentials that drive …

We reappraise the relationship between productivity and equilibrium real exchangerates using a panel estimation … ofnon-traded, as well as traded, sector productivity shocks in exchange ratedetermination. We find evidence of significant … correlation between real exchangerates and productivity differentials in both sectors. But our finding of a significant rolefor …