What explains the longstanding productivity gaps with the UK’s core comparator countries?
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Queen's University Belfast - NISRA BDR Programme (Propelling Growth in Northern Ireland: Measuring and Explaining Business Productivity)
Our research will contribute to this existing literature by providing a more detailed picture of Northern Irish productivity. We identifying where opportunities exist for policy to raise productivity and efficiency acros...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically focuses on explaining productivity gaps in Northern Ireland, which aligns with the question about productivity gaps in the UK's core comparator countries.
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Productivity Insights Network
UK national productivity challenges can be analysed from many different perspectives, including firm-specific, industry-specific, organisational-specific, institution-specific or technology-specific perspectives. In the ...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the UK's productivity challenges from a regional perspective, which is relevant to understanding the productivity gaps with core comparator countries.
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Firm Dynamics, Market Power and Productivity Puzzles
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman famously remarked that 'productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it is almost everything'. He is referring to the idea that productivity dictates society's ability to produce more ou...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
While the project focuses on market power and productivity in the UK, it does not directly address the productivity gaps with the UK's core comparator countries.