Productivity

In this we provide evidence that correlations between incumbent productivity growth and patenting arise from a causal effect predicted by Schumpeterian growth theory.

We model the choice of individuals to follow or not apprenticeship training and their subsequent career.

This article exploits a quasi-experimental setting to estimate the impact that a commonly used performance-related pay scheme had on branch performance in a large distribution firm.

presented at Far East and South Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society

This paper investigates the puzzling evidence on wages and educational attainment observed in Brazil in the 1990s.

We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects.

This paper presents evidence on the social capital in one particular firm, as embodied in the friendship ties among its workers.

This paper estimates public sector wage differentials and their changes over time for men and women in the United Kingdom using panel data from the New Earnings Survey/Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings for the period 1975 to 2006.

The poor productivity performance of the UK and the EU when compared with the US has been a major driver of policy reforms over the past decade.

We examine the 'home bias' of international knowledge spillovers as measured by the speed of patent citations.

We present evidence from a firm level experiment in which we engineered an exogenous change in managerial compensation from fixed wages to performance pay based on the average productivity of lower-tier workers.

This project provides empirical evidence on firms' demographic characteristics and the extent of specialisation and vertical integration of British firms across industries.

This paper uses within-firm, plant-level data combined with geographic information on firms' overseas operations to examine how investment in low-wage economies affects firms' home-country operations.

This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of nonrandom selection into work.