Productivity

We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme were associated with increased product market competition.

In this Briefing Note we focus on changes to the corporate tax environment alongside direct policies that aim to correct market failures.

In this Briefing Note, we briefly describe trends in UK productivity over the recent recession and how they compare with those in the US.

This Briefing Note reviews developments in welfare policy under the current government and analyses the manifesto proposals of the three main political parties in this policy area.

This paper discusses recent developments in the literature that studies how the dynamics of earnings and wages affect consumption choices over the life cycle.

A report of research carried out by Institute for Fiscal Studies on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions. This Appendix provides a detailed and formal derivation of the estimation methods considered in the main report, as well as of the conditions for their validity.

The aim of this report is to explore how the findings from the experimental research on ERA relate to the impacts that would have been experienced, on average, by all the people who were eligible for the programme, had they participated in the study.

This paper studies the role of labour income tax policies when looking at wage inequalities.

We examine the wages of low skilled Canadian workers over the last quarter century and argue that they fit with an implicit contracting model with re-negotiation.

We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace.

This paper analyzss the effects of a ban on smoking in public places upon firms and consumers.

We investigate the idea that increased use of ICT has facilitated outsourcing of business services, and that these are complementary activities in production because they allow firms to focus on their core competencies.

This paper looks at the value of pension rights in the context of the Teachers' Pension Scheme.

This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal labor and firm performance.

This paper investigates how enforcement of labour regulation affects the firm's use of informal labour, firm size and firm performance.