services in output and its integration in the world economy. Productivity growth in the United Kingdom has consistently … financial crisis. Sluggish productivity growth in the service sectors was the main factor behind this weak performance. Raising … productivity will help to sustain employment and wages but will require a broad range of policies. Keeping low barriers to trade …

This paper examines the link between barriers to trade and investment and productivity performance, in the United … a robust determinant of productivity in the long term. Control variables such as spending on R&D and human capital also … range of productivity measures as well as to changes in the sectoral coverage and the set of controls. …

Multifactor productivity (MFP) is increasingly used in economic policy, not least to compute potential output. Most …-products of the production process such as air pollution that could have deleterious effect on health and productivity in the …

about 6.1% of UK exports and 7.8% of UK imports in the medium term compared to a situation where the United Kingdom would …