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In January 2020, the UK government formally announced its intention to create a number of Freeports across the UK, with the aim of promoting job creation and regeneration, boosting trade, investment and innovation, and supporting the 'levelling up' agenda. The Freeports offer various tax and...
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Last month, the Chancellor set out additional funding for the National Health Service (NHS) in the Autumn Statement. This came alongside the promise of new recovery plans and targets for emergency care and primary care, a recommitment to the elective recovery plan, and a promise of a...
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How have employment, earnings and incomes performed in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK? What drives geographic inequalities within Scotland?
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There is a prevalent view outside Greece that promotion of competitiveness is tantamount with price reductions for Greek goods and services. Massive horizontal salary cuts appear, at first, to promote competitiveness by reducing unit labor costs and to reduce fiscal deficits by reducing the wage...
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across countries and sectors. On the other hand, opening to trade boosts individual firms' productivity growth, via a number … of channels, and also enhances allocative efficiency across firms, in turn increasing aggregate productivity growth. One …
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and productivity growth may have been understated and the rate of price inflation overstated. Measurement errors alone do …
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on productivity in the Helsinki region, utilizing extensive registry data. We find that improved job to job accessibility …
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The productivity-enhancing effects of digitalisation have generated increased interest in the promotion of digital … technologies. This report provides different estimations for euro area countries of the impact of digital uptake on productivity at … firm level, showing that the adoption of digital technologies could lead to an increase in firms' productivity in the …
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productivity costs. This shift will have varied implications for businesses, contingent upon their scale, access to financial … without displacing other initiatives, yet stringent climate regulations might impede the productivity ascent of … productivity disparities exist between top and bottom emitters within specific industries. The transition period poses a risk to a …
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for ways to improve public services without large increases in spending. Improving the productivity of public services is … often proposed as a way to achieve this. This follows the big fall in measured productivity of government services …, Jeremy Hunt, launched a new 'Public Sector Productivity Plan' and argued that 'the way to improve public services is not …
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