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Framing a place-based investment strategy for South Tyneside

Sensier, Marianne; Penney, Kate; Francis, Michael; … - 2026

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Framing a place-based investment strategy for Cumberland

Sensier, Marianne; Penney, Kate; Francis, Michael; … - 2026

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Digital transformation and workforce productivity : the role of ICT in enhancing labour productivity

Rahul, M.; Gupta, Srishti; Mukherjee, Sourashree; … - 2026

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Framing a place-based investment strategy for Great Yarmouth

Sensier, Marianne; Penney, Kate; Francis, Michael; … - 2026

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Framing a place-based investment strategy for Newport

Sensier, Marianne; Penney, Kate; Francis, Michael; … - 2026

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Looking in the rear-view mirror : evidence from artificial intelligence investment, labour market conditions and firm growth

Tingbani, Ishmael; Salia, Samuel; Hartwell, Christopher A. - 2025

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Short-time work and unionization

Biancardi, Daniele; Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica - 2022

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Short-time work and unionization

Biancardi, Daniele; Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica - 2025

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The UK's capital gap : a short-fall in the trillions of pounds that will take decades to bridge

Allas, Tera; Zenghelis, Dimitri - 2025

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The effect of task switching on productivity : evidence from major league baseball pitchers

Farnell, Alex; Mills, Brian; O'Sullivan, Vincent; … - 2025

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A sectoral analysis of a developing country's exports in the context of trade integration : evidence from Colombia

Abreo, Carlos - 2025

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Wage productivity gap and labour market flexibility : a study based on indian manufacturing industries during 1973-2020

Dasgupta, Byasdeb; Dutta, Dip - 2025

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An assessment of the economic performance of industrial ecosystems

Kostarakos, Ilias; Marques Santos, Anabela - 2025

This report focuses on the assessment of the economic performance of selected industrial ecosystems. In particular, it offers an in-depth discussion of the developments across those ecosystems that exhibited the largest shares of total Gross Value Added in 2019, the year prior to the eruption of...

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Working from home and labour productivity : firm-level evidence

Basso, Gaetano; Dottori, Davide; Formai, Sara - 2025

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Adult skills and productivity : new evidence from PIAAC 2023

Andrews, Dan; Égert, Balázs; De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2025

The 2023 Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) reveals large cross-country differences in adult skill levels that carry important implications for productivity. Cross-country analysis shows a positive relationship between labour productivity and the average level of adult skills at the industry level...

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An industry-level measure of quality-adjusted human capital in the European Union

Durán, Juan David; Jordan, Michelle Alicia; … - 2025

This paper examines the role of human capital in driving labour productivity growth across industries in the EU and the UK from 2010 to 2021. Building on Egert ' et al. (2022), we introduce a novel quality-adjusted human capital (QAHC) measure that combines both the quantity and quality of...

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Modifying the success story of Sweden : revised output and labour productivity figures for manufacturing, 1869-1950

Hamark, Jesper; Prado, Svante - 2025

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Productivity and entry regulation : evidence from the universe of firms

Cintolesi, Andrea; Mocetti, Sauro; Roma, Giacomo - 2024

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy support on productivity

2024

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The sustainability of hospital care in the Netherlands from a labour market perspective : a time series analysis of the Baumol effect between 2000 and 2021

Blank, Jos L. T.; Heezik, Alex A. S. van - 2024

In this paper, we focus on the sustainability of hospital care in The Netherlands from a labour market perspective. The continued increase in the demand for hospital care and the subsequent growth in the demand for hospital labour can cause permanent shortages of medical and nursing personnel,...

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Intangible capital in France and Germany : is there a measurement issue?

Nonnis, Alberto; Roth, Felix; Bounfour, Ahmed - 2024 - This version: 08 11 2024

In this article, we highlight important differences in capital investment and capital stock in intangible assets between France and Germany, which we attribute to potential measurement issues between the two countries. Using data from the latest EUKLEMS/INTANProd release for the period between...

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Developing theoretical and methodological provisions for improving the mechanism of labour efficiency

Kornieieva, Tetiana; Varela, Miguel; Luís, Ana Lúcia; … - 2024

The article presents a theoretical generalisation and solution of a current scientific and applied problem which develops theoretical principles, methodological approaches and scientific and practical recommendations for improving the mechanism of labour efficiency management in terms of...

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Left-behind places in Central and Eastern Europe : labour productivity aspect

Dobrzanski, Pawel; Bobowski, Sebastian; Clare, Karenjit - 2024

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How can the region advance the great productive transformation it needs? : executive summary

2024

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Imports complementarities in European manufacturing

Cannarsa, Niccolò; Grether, Jean-Marie - 2024

Do technologies embedded in imports boost domestic productivity? This paper investigates empirically the role of complementarities between absorptive capacity and imports. Different import categories are combined with different proxies for absorptive capacity. The database covers 18...

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Small-scale irrigation in the Sahel : adoption trends, profitability, and challenges

Faye, Amy; Braun, Joachim von - 2024

This paper analyzes the current uptake of small-scale irrigation (SSI1), its profitability, and the constraints to its broader adoption in the Sahel using literature and survey data from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. Unlike most of the literature on irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa...

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Productivity and wages in South Africa

Mazorodze, Brian Tavonga - 2024

The world has experienced rapid productivity growth in the last three decades, but has this growth reflected in wages? In theory, under certain conditions, workers earn their marginal product so that productivity growth feeds into wages on a one-to-one basis. Given the contradictory literature,...

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Productivity and wages in South Africa

Mazorodze, Brian Tavonga - 2024

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The impact of urban density on labour productivity : empirical evidence from Thailand's major cities

Saowaruj Rattanakhamfu; Naparit Chantawasinkul; … - 2024

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Impact of digitalisation on labour productivity in the EU

Cinquegrana, Giuseppe; De Luca, Giovanni; Mazzocchi, Paolo - 2024

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Access to credit and labour productivity : a new insight from Vietnamese firms

Pham, Van Thu; Phan, Hien Thi Thu - 2024

This study aims to examine the impact of access to credit on labour productivity of Vietnamese firms. We use panel data from the Small and Medium Sized Manufacturing Enterprises Survey in Vietnam between 2007 and 2015 to conduct an analysis of how access to credit affects firm-level...

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Dreaming big : higher occupational aspirations from persistent and advantaged kids

New, Sonja C. de; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Jayawardana, … - 2024

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An analysis of the changes in British workers' real wages since the 19th century

Pencavel, John H. - 2024

The increase in the real wages of British workers over the last one hundred years is often attributed to the growth in labour productivity, but this has rarely been confirmed. In the research reported here, this ascription is confronted with annual observations on wages and productivity spanning...

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An Analysis of the Changes in British Workers' Real Wages since the 19th Century

Pencavel, John H. - 2024

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy support on productivity : a report of the ESCB Expert Group on productivity, innovation and technological change

Anastasatu, Marianthē; Anyfantaki, Sofia; Benkovskis, … - 2024

This paper studies the short-term and long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for productivity in Europe. Aggregate and sectoral evidence is complemented by firm-level data-based findings obtained from a large microdistributed exercise. Productivity trends during the COVID-19 pandemic...

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Is the EU ready for the next generation of investment? : the case of France and Germany

Nonnis, Alberto; Roth, Felix; Bounfour, Ahmed - 2024 - This version: 19 06 2024

This paper presents a puzzling finding: although France invests twice as much in intangible capital vis-à-vis Germany, both countries have similar LPG rates over the studied period from 1995 until 2020. We find that this difference in investments is driven by France's four- and...

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Intangible assets and imperfections in product and labor markets

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Zona Mattioli, … - 2026

This paper develops a micro-founded framework linking price-cost and wage markups to intangible assets. Intangible assets, once created, are a source of firm rents. Owing to limits to enforceable ownership and the non-rival nature of knowledge, these rents can be both retained by the origin firm...

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Intangible assets and imperfections in product and labor markets

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Zona Mattioli, … - 2026

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Intangible assets and imperfections in product and labor markets

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Zona Mattioli, … - 2026

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Gas flaring, agricultural productivity and labor reallocation : evidence from Nigeria

Nwokolo, Arinze - 2026

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Firm data on AI

Yotzov, Ivan; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2026

We present the first representative international data on firm-level AI use. We survey almost 6,000 CFOs, CEOs, and executives from stratified firm samples across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia. We find four key facts. First, around 70 percent of firms actively use AI, particularly younger,...

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Artificial intelligence, productivity, and the workforce : evidence from corporate executives

Baslandze, Salomé; Edwards, Zachary; Graham, John R.; … - 2026

We use novel data from a survey of nearly 750 corporate executives to study the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on productivity and the workforce. We document substantial heterogeneity in AI adoption across firms, with more than half having already invested, though many smaller firms are...

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Artificial intelligence, productivity, and the workforce: evidence from corporate executives

Baslandze, Salomé; Edwards, Zachary; McClure, Ty; … - 2026

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Artificial Intelligence, Productivity, and the Workforce : Evidence from Corporate Executives

Baslandze, Salomé; Edwards, Zachary; Graham, John R.; … - 2026

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The impact of competition intensity on labour productivity growth in Canada

Faryaar, Hassan; Rosell, Carlos; Stegnjaic, Nina - 2026

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Robots and the wedge between wages and productivity : a European analysis

Oleš, Tomáš; Prettner, Klaus; Lábaj, Martin; … - 2026

We study the role of industrial robots in shaping the divergence between labor productivity and wages across European countries from 1995 to 2020. To this end, we develop a tractable theoretical model in which robots substitute for routine labor. The model predicts a widening wage-productivity...

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How firms respond to minimum wage increases : evidence from North Macedonia

Jovanović, Branimir; Stojkoski, Viktor; Tevdovski, Dragan - 2026

We study the effects of North Macedonia's 2017 minimum wage reform - the largest in the country's history - using matched employer-employee administrative data covering the entire range of firms and employees, and a difference-in-differences design based on firms' pre-reform share of minimum...

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AI adoption, productivity and employment : evidence from European firms

Aldasoro, Iñaki; Gambacorta, Leonardo; Pal, Rozalia; … - 2026

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AI adoption, productivity and employment : evidence from European firms

Aldasoro, Iñaki; Gambacorta, Leonardo; Pal, Rozalia; … - 2026

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AI adoption, productivity and employment : evidence from European firms

Aldasoro, Inaki; Gambacorta, Leonardo; Pál, Rozália; … - 2026

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Working from home in Jordan : adoption and implications

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Bloom, Nicholas - 2026

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Exposure to digital automation and jobs in global value chains

Bontadini, Filippo; Ciarli, Tommaso; Picasso, Santiago; … - 2026

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Investments in AI as a driver for increased productivity in the healthcare system

Sabyrzhan, Ali; Zeinullina, Zhanar; Karipova, Ainur; … - 2026

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Legacy of apartheid : misallocation of labour and firm productivity

Nesongano, Talent; Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Süße, Marvin - 2026

This paper investigates the extent to which the historical legacy of apartheid laws explains contemporary misallocation and firm productivity in South Africa. During the apartheid era (1948-1994), job reservations, closed-shop agreements, and minimum-wage policies were implemented to restrict...

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Wage dispersion, on-the-job search, and stochastic match productivity : a mean field game approach

Buhai, Sebastian - 2026

Wage dispersion and job-to-job mobility are central features of modern labour markets, yet canonical equilibrium search models with exogenous job-offer ladders struggle to jointly account for these facts and the magnitude of frictional wage inequality. We develop a continuous-time equilibrium...

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The impact of labour policy on productivity and wages in South Africa : a review of the literature

Mlatsheni, Cecil - 2026

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AI and human development : evidence from G20 countries

Dubey, Rohan; Chakraborty, Lekha - 2026

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Match effects and the gains from alternative job assignments : evidence from a teacher labor market

Laverde, Mariana; Mykerezi, Elton; Sojourner, Aaron; … - 2026

This paper studies the relative importance of teacher-student match effects and general teacher effectiveness in producing student learning, and quantifies gains from alternative teacher assignments. We estimate a framework that separates these components, allowing match quality to vary with...

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Gender gaps under comparable tasks : evidence from quasirandom assignment

Khaliliaraghi, Negar; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2026

Gender gaps in earnings persist even among high-skilled workers, in part because men and women often perform different tasks within and across jobs. We study a rare setting in which high-skilled men and women perform the same tasks under comparable conditions, allowing us to assess gender...

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