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Work by the OECD and Oxford Martin School also notes widening gaps in productivity and profit mark-ups between the leading businesses and the rest. This suggests weakening competition and rising monopoly rent. Moreover, ... Read more...
18 September 2019
Hiking the minimum wage for low-paid care workers has a “rather worrying deterioration in the quality of care”, according to a new study. Care homes have responded to the introduction of the N... Read more...
08 July 2018
Proximity to a large plant plays an important role in the diffusion of knowledge and patent production, write Vincenzo Scrutinio, Christian Fons-Rosen and Katalin Szemeredi. ... Read more...
30 June 2018
Yatang Lin, a researcher from the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, enthused that "there were ambitions to get everything done pretty quickly. Of course, there were politi... Read more...
04 March 2017
Exporters to Angola that hired managers with specific types of experience were more likely to succeed, write Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla and Alessandro Sforza. The enormous variation in firm perform... Read more...
26 January 2017
The rate of growth in technological innovations in China has increased significantly in the past two decades (see Figure 1). What's more, it is widely believed that the ability to learn from foreign technology and chase ... Read more...
13 October 2016