productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivityadvances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per …

The UK’s poor productivity performance relative to the US has been a focus for government policy and analysis in recent … productivity (value-added per worker) was just over 40% higher than the UK level in 2001, about the same as it was at the beginning … of the 1990s. The labour productivity gap fell over the early 1990s, when the UK experienced relatively faster growth in …