Siting the Lab in the CEP Centre for Economic Performance allows the planned work to draw on the expertise and knowledge of the labour market derived from the Centre's previous years of research. Author now turn to an overview of the main questions tackled by CEP in this period and...
This paper considers the relative productivity growth performance of a balanced sample of 80 large UK firms over few years, using two different benchmarks from which to compute productivity growth differences. It is found that there is almost no persistence in superior productivity growth performance however measured - firms that...
This paper shows that state control of some industries may have contributed to the increase in European unemployment from the 1970s to the early 1990s. A simple model with both publicly-run and privately-run enterprises is developed and shows that when economic turbulence increases, higher unemployment rates may result in economies...