Gloucester Live:
Move over London ? Gloucester ranked in the UK?s top 10 most productive and entrepreneurial business areas
24 November 2017
Post Budget analysis has focused on the UK's productivity woes - but a UK-wide report singles out Gloucester as a hotbed of entrepreneurial business growth and talent way ahead of the Capital. … The researchers reference a report - The Great Divergence(s), by Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara Criscuolo. The upshot of which is this – businesses which don’t pay their staff as much as other firms in the same sector are less productive. Wages have remained generally stagnant since the economic crash and productivity a growing issue. Could there be a link one wonders.