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How to measure living standards and productivity

Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper sets out a general algorithm for calculating true cost-of-living indices or true producer price indices when demand is not homothetic, i.e. when not all expenditure elasticities are equal to one. In principle, economic theory tells us how we should calculate a true cost-of-living...

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Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries

Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …

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Long term implications of the ICT revolution: applying the lessons of growth theory and growth accounting

Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …

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A British industrial success: productivity in the Lancashire and New England cotton spinning industries a century ago

Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper uses new product-specific, micro-level US data to show that New England had lower levels of productivity in …-abundant country – has higher labour productivity contradicts the Rothbarth-Habakkuk model. We suggest Britain’s industrial success …

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Multinationals and US productivity leadership: evidence from Great Britain

Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We study the productivity of US owned plants in the UK. Using a new dataset that identifies foreign and domestic MNEs …

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New survey evidence on recent changes in UK union recognition

Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

companies with higher wages, higher productivity and higher capital intensity. The ‘blip up’ in new recognitions is consistent …

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