We investigate whether and how the type of unemployment benefit institution affects productivity. We designed a field … experiment to compare workers' productivity under a welfare system, where the unemployed receive an unconditional monetary … transfer, with their productivity under a workfare system, where the transfer is received conditional on the unemployed …

lower productivity. Second, within the laboratory, we design two randomized controlled trials. Some individuals are … deliberately made happier, while those in a control group are not. The treated individuals have 10-12% greater productivity than …

This paper reviews selected aspects of the history of UK supply-side policy in terms of their productivity implications …. An important change after the 1970s which improved productivity performance was the adoption of policies to end …

This paper examines the role of competition in productivity performance in Britain over the period from the late … 1930s to the 1970s undermined productivity growth but since the 1970s stronger competition has been a key ingredient in … ending relative economic decline. The productivity implications of the retreat from competition resulted in large part from …

the importance of the outward orientation of services for service sector productivity, and the growing importance of … services for productivity performance overall. (3) The trend of British industrial performance was not improved by protection …-industrialisation after World War II had an adverse effect on productivity performance in industry and in the aggregate economy. …

with new Banca d’Italia estimates of GDP by sector, this paper evaluates the different labour productivity growth trends … within the Italian economy’s sectors, as well as the contribution of structural change to productivity growth. Italy …’s performance is then set in an international context: a comparison of sectoral labour productivity growth rates and levels within a …

factor productivity (TFP) and by the capital stock per capita. These variables su¢ ce to calculate welfare changes within a …

total factor productivity (TFP) and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes …

the productivity of skilled workers has risen to the unskilled, but it is not east to explain why aggregate labour … productivity was stagnant during the 1980s. This paper suggests an alternative story: introducing new goods involves a fixed labour …