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Productivity
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Research: Productivity
Finding meaning at work
Helping employees assess their jobs through the lens of purpose increases productivity and narrows gender gaps in career choices... Read more...
On the cover: Productivity
The price of power: why rising markups hurt innovation and widen inequality
Over the past four decades, the United States has seen rising market power, slowing productivity growth and deepening wealth inequality. Giammario Impullitti and Pontus Rendahl explore how declining competition may be th... Read more...
Research: Productivity
Revving up wages: How rising productivity has benefited car industry workers
Fast productivity growth in the UK car industry led to staff in the sector earning about 37% more than the average manufacturing employee by the 2010s. But Andreas Teichgraeber and Tim Obermeier show that while wages wen... Read more...
Policy: Productivity
in brief... Could a new policy institution help solve the UK?s productivity problem?
Comparatively sluggish productivity growth is one of the UK?s biggest policy challenges. Past strategies to solve the problem have lacked both sustained commitment and proper evaluation. Anna Valero and Bart van Ark call... Read more...