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This staff report on United Kingdom’s (UK) 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights economic policies and development. The UK economy grew by about ¼ percent in 2012. Net trade reduced growth by 0.6 percentage points of GDP, the biggest drag since 2005, and well above staff projections....
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Based on the economic literature, various policy measures and institutions in the product and labor markets that increase growth and employment are studied. From a cross-country approach, this study finds a significant relationship between Vertical Fiscal Imbalances (VFIs) and fiscal performance...
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to real productivity, stressing the role of firm and individual bargaining, decreasing the room for national contracts at …
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unions (except the larger Italian trade unions CGIL) and employers associations on productivity and competitiveness, called … an improvement in Italian industrial relations and will not contribute to stop the decline of productivity of national …
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by 10 percentage points, to recover less than 2 points in the following decade; productivity growth slowed down since the … mid-90s to became almost zero since 2000; the gap between productivity and real wage increased in the 90s to slightly … decline in the euro period, when stationary productivity and wages prevailed. A change in route is urgently needed, in Italy …
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after the national agreement on productivity signed in Italy in November 2012. It is clear the effect of that agreement …
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state of fiscal balances in the short and longer run; growth and productivity developments; and the extent of inequality in …
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This paper develops an index of energy productivity and employs it to examine productivity movements across 62 …. Secondly, the best and worst performers, relative to the average, in terms of energy productivity gain are identified. A line … of enquiry into energy productivity is then pursued analogous to that developed by Salter's work on labour productivity …
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management system - star ratings for acute hospital trusts in England - with a productivity measure analogous to those used in …
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