This paper reviews the implications of outsourcing and offshoring for the productivity of business services in the UK …. Official statistics indicate that business-service productivity has grown by over 20 per cent in the last 7 years at the same … employment and productivity. First, we discuss outsourcing and offshoring, and their role in enhancing productivity through …

The focus of the paper is on evaluating the productivity gap between rural and urban locations in the UK using micro … data. We build a structural model of the unobservable productivity emphasising the link between productivity and spatial … density of economic activity and adapt the semi-parametric estimation approach proposed in Olley and Pakes (1996) to estimate …

paper is somewhat different, namely on the impact of Brexit regional productivity cross the UK, a key element of the UK … regional variations in labour productivity, notably capital per skilled worker, human capital, and goods exports to the EU. We … that in the long run, productivity in the London regions is likely to be less adversely affected than in other regions. …

of Great Britain. The potentially two-way causality between agglomeration and productivity is dealt with using two …