Lectures and Op-eds
- “UK productivity slowdown worst since Industrial Revolution – study“, The Guardian, 3rd February, 2020 (quoting NIESR research)
- “How not to miss the productivity revival once again” Inaugural Prais Lecture on Productivity, Bart Van Ark, 4th November 2019 (video)
- Gresham Lecture on “The Productivity Puzzle” by Jagjit S. Chadha, 21st September 2017
National Institute Economic Review articles
No. 253, August 2020:
- “Regional disparities in labour productivity and the role of capital stock” by Ben Gardiner, Bernard Fingleton and Ron Martin
- “Understanding regional economic performance and resilience in the UK: trends since the global financial crisis” by Marianne Sensier and Fiona Devine
- “Reconciled estimates and nowcasts of regional output in the UK” by Gary Koop, Stuart McIntyre, James Mitchell and Aubrey Poon
No. 251, February 2020, “Is the UK Productivity Slowdown Unprecedented?” by Nicholas Crafts and Terence C Mills
No.247, February 2019, “Productivity: Past, present and future”
- “Introduction” by Jagjit S. Chadha
- “Hours worked across the world: facts and driving forces” by Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
- “Persistent productivity failure in the UK: is the EU really to blame?” by Nicholas Crafts
- “The decline of British manufacturing, 1973–2012: the role of total factor productivity” by Richard Harris and John Moffat
- “Labour reallocation in recession and recovery: evidence for Europe” by Eric Bartelsman, Paloma Lopez-Garcia and Giorgio Presidente
- “The anatomy of UK labour productivity: lessons from new and existing data sources” by Philip Wales
Articles from the NIER over the years on Productivity:
2010s
Can Intangible Investment Explain the UK Productivity Puzzle?
Peter Goodridge (Imperial College Business School), Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College Business School and CEPR) and Gavin Wallis (University College London and Bank of England), 224.1, 2013 | | Abstract |
Impaired Capital Reallocation and Productivity
Alina Barnett (Bank of England, London, and Centre for Macroeconomics), Ben Broadbent (Bank of England), Adrian Chiu (Bank of England), Jeremy Franklin (Bank of England) and Helen Miller (Institute for Fiscal Studies, London), 228.1, 2014 | Abstract |
The Financial Crisis, Bank Lending and UK Productivity: Sectoral and Firm-Level Evidence
Rebecca Riley, (National Institute of Economic and Social Research) Chiara Rosazza-Bondibene (National Institute of Economic and Social Research) and Garry Young (Bank of England, NIESR and Centre for Macroeconomics), 228.1, 2014 | Abstract |
The Financial Foundations of the Productivity Puzzle
Jagjit S. Chadha, Amit Kara and Paul Labonne (National Institute of Economic and Social Research), 241.1, 2017 | Abstract |
2000s
Britain’s Relative Productivity Performance: Has Anything Changed?
Mary O’Mahony and Willem de Boer (National Institute of Economic and Social Research), 179.1, 2002 | Abstract |
Productivity Impacts and Spillovers from Foreign Ownership in the United Kingdom
Richard Harris (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) and Catherine Robinson (National Institute of Economic and Social Research), 187.1, 2004 | Abstract |
Britain’s Productivity Gap with the United States and Europe: A Historical Perspective
Stephen Broadberry (University of Warwick) and Mary O’Mahony (National Institute of Economic and Social Research), 189.1, 2004 | Abstract |
1990s
Innovation and Productivity in Eastern Europe: An International Comparison
George F. Ray (National Institute of Economic and Social Research), 138.1, 1991 | Abstract |
Labour productivity and unit labour costs in manufacturing: the UK and its competitors
Nicholas Oulton, 148.1, 1994 | Abstract |
1980s
International Industrial Productivity: A Comparison of Britain, America and Germany
A. D. Smith, D. M. W. N. Hitchens (National Institute of Economic and Social Research) and S. W. Davies (University of East Anglia), 101.1, 1982 | Abstract |
Productivity in Services
George F. Ray (National Institute of Economic and Social Research), 115.1, 1986 | Abstract |
Educating for Productivity: Comparisons of Japanese and English Schooling and Vocational Preparation
S. J. Prais (National Institute of Economic and Social Research), 119.1, 1987 | Abstract |
Research on Productivity and the Productivity Gap
R.C.O Matthews (University of Cambridge), 124.1, 1988 | Abstract |
1970s
Output, Employment and Labour Productivity in Europe since 1955
D. T. Jones (National Institute of Economic and Social Research), 77.1, 1976 | Abstract |
1960s
Long-Term and Short-Term Policy: The productive potential of the British economy, and fluctuations in the pressure of demand for labour, 1951-1962
W. A. H. Godley and and J. R. Shepherd (National Institute of Economic and Social Research), 29.1, 1964 | Abstract |