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Finance industry: a sector which accounts for a large proportion of all bonus payments in the British economy. …
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A new CEP report says that the financial system has become far more complicated than it need to be - and dangerously unstable too
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average. Chronically low investment especially in infrastructure and innovation, poor management and weak intermediate skills … investment and innovation, with a focus on support for small firms (particularly in accessing finance and expertise), key sectors …
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John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on policies to foster competition.
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We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are … Poland and Lithuania operate with management practices that are only moderately worse than those of western European …
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Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For example, looking at disaggregated data on U.S. manufacturing industries, Syverson (2004a) found that plants at the 90th percentile produced four times as much as the plant in the 10th...
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We provide new evidence on the growth in pay at the very top of the wage distribution in the UK. Sectoral decompositions show that workers in the financial sector have accounted for the majority of the gains at the top over the last decade. New results are also presented on the pay of CEOs in...
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Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …
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Better school management is associated with better pupil achievement, according to CEP analysis of the quality of … management practices in schools in a range of developed and developing countries. Renata Lemos notes that the quality of school … management is related to leadership traits of the head teachers - and that management practices have a greater effect on pupil …
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more than 30,000 establishments, gathered in the first large-scale survey of management practices in America, finds that … that there is huge variation in management in America: for example, establishments in America's South and Midwest have more … structured management practices on average than those in the Northeast and West. Higher management scores have a strong …
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