This paper uses job advert data to examine regional digital skills demand in the UK, including AI skills and strategically important industries.
This paper examines how digital skills, green tasks and intangible capital shape labour productivity growth across 16 OECD countries.
This paper examines how public policies, institutions, skills, markets, R&D, trade and environmental measures shape productivity across advanced economies.
This study explores how organisational capital and ICT investment interact to boost labour productivity, especially in digitally intensive industries.
Using Eurostat enterprise survey data, this paper analyses how skills, policy, costs, demographics and business barriers shape AI adoption across the EU.
In this paper, we investigate the link between public investment and output in the United Kingdom.
This study examines whether firms’ R&D investment shapes labour market power by affecting the wedge between workers’ marginal revenue product and wages.
Post-Brexit trade only survives where companies were already "locked in" to each other through complex, shared manufacturing processes. But smaller, simpler trade relationships are being systematically destroyed.
This paper studies how spatial proximity and value-chain access shape firm productivity, with emphasis on ownership and organizational scope.
This report argues that local government must play a much bigger role in tackling the UK’s long-standing productivity problem.
This study investigates the longstanding underperformance of UK business investment and examines how firms’ external financing conditions and internal investment thresholds shape investment behaviour between 2013 and 2022.
This paper investigates how firms navigate the dual challenges of digitalisation and climate change.
This paper presents a novel, harmonized dataset to analyse the Twin Transition and its impact on labour markets across 30 OECD countries.
This paper documents significant regional and sectoral productivity disparities in the UK with important implications for aggregate productivity and living standards
This paper explores how investment in different types of capital affects estimates of firm level total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the UK.
This study explores the relationship between technology and the graduate wage premium in a world characterised by the increasing importance of intangible assets.
Is the move to net zero in the United Kingdom likely to be productivity-reducing or productivity-enhancing?
The economic and political context for place-based policymaking has changed dramatically in the last few years.
An exploration of AI's impact on productivity examining AI use for specific purposes
How do different firms respond to R&D incentives and, in turn, shape aggregate growth?
Tracking the economy through firm creation using evidence from real-time data.
Research constructing labour productivity estimates for 184 industries spanning the entire UK economy.
Research examining the nexus between agglomeration economies and international trade premia and whether these two phenomena complement or substitute each other.
Research highlighting the economic consequences of capital market frictions for high-growth companies.
Investigating impacts of Brexit-related increased non-tariff trade costs on UK business investment and productivity growth.
Examining graduate skill mismatch in the UK and highlighting the importance of sector in labour market policy.
Exploring whether pre-pandemic adoption of digital technologies helped SMEs survive during the pandemic.
Exploring the economic geography features of the work-from-home revolution.
Investigating the influence of a key element of social capital – trust – on labour productivity in intangible-intensive industries.
Working paper investigating the relationship between vertical integration in modern manufacturing firms and their performance.
A study investigating the impact of management practices on productivity, with a focus on the moderating role of family ownership.
New evidence of the optimal currency area (OCA) logic using the UK and the rest of Europe as exemplars.
This study provides an analysis of the adoption and impact of advanced digital technologies in the UK.
An analysis of a disaggregated structural change model for the US economy in the post-Second World War period.
An analysis of the role structural dynamics in the manufacturing industry play in the UK’s productivity puzzle.
Analysing the impact of public funding on UK research-related investments and its contribution to regional development and interregional convergence.
This research estimates the productivity of tax collection and administration in the UK from 1850 to 2019.
This project examines the impact of the corporate board gender composition on pay-related outcomes within UK companies.
Estimating the value of free digital goods within the national income accounting framework.
This paper compares private equity (PE) transactions and data on non-PE-backed firms to study the impact of private equity funding and ownership on firm-level productivity.
Exploring the consequences of good management practices for firm performance, innovation, exporting intensity, and working from home.
This descriptive study looks at the longer-term trends (1980 to 2022) in UK investment relative to comparator economies in the G7.
Constructing two large datasets spanning the entire population of French and UK firms with at least an employee to investigate discrepancies in firm-level and regional-level productivity
Investigating the productivity performance of the G-20 to extract lessons for the long term that can help shape a more adequate and consistent policy framework for tackling the global productivity slowdown.
Underscoring the importance of re-evaluating methods for measuring business sector software prices, given the profound changes in the ICT landscape.
Using data on output revenue and input expenditures to develop a new estimation framework that derives quality-adjusted Total Factor Productivity, known as TFPQ.
Exploring the effect of the large and unexpected increase in the national minimum wage in 2016 on hiring decisions.
Using uniquely-detailed large-scale commercial real estate investment data to examine how financial markets perceived the attractiveness of investing in UK regions during the last two decades, providing a new explanation to UK regional productivity gaps.
Reviewing the recent and emerging developments in productivity measurement and methods of analysis.
Making the case that integrating equality into the productivity agenda is essential for raising productivity that aims to improve well-being for all.
Demonstrating that regional institutions created barriers to productivity growth in Northern Ireland in the interwar period by using new comparisons and and new archival evidence.
Analysing the effect of coal and oil on long-run economic growth, exploiting variation at the level of European NUTS-2 and NUTS-3 regions, including the UK, over the last century.
Surveying UK productivity performance over the long run across countries and focus on the sharp slowdown since the global financial crisis.
Focusing on the regional variations in aggregate changes in inward FDI in the UK, the uneven spatial distributions of investments, and the implications for productivity.
Recasting core economic measures of productivity and and GVA in a social welfare rather than purely private goods perspective using GSG emissions and other pollutants.
Exploring the framework and a roadmap for best measuring productivity in the Non-Profit Institutions Serving Households (NPISH) sector.
Why are exporting firms more productive? Do productive firms export or is it exporting that leads to higher productivity?
Examining the effects of the work-from-home and hybrid work revolution on the spatial structures and performance of cities.
A discussion of some of the fundamental issues related to the future growth of productivity under net zero climate change policies.
Two separate productivity analyses are undertaken to examine the effects of changes of regulations and ownership in the GB gas industry.
A comprehensive sources-of-growth analysis for the UK non-farm market sector, 2000 to 2019, using the latest ONS data.
This paper develops an analytical framework on how sectors determine regional outcomes and captures the impact of shocks from the 1970s.
The United States and northern Europe have experienced very similar productivity slowdowns to the UK since 2007.
Evidence from text analysis of a startling lack of coordination in Government policy with a special focus on the Levelling Up White Paper and its other recent national economic policy documents.
Exploring the slowdown in UK productivity from 2008 by decomposing the changes in labour productivity into contributions from different sectors of the economy.
The implications of the demand surge experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic for the UK's rationed, largely free at the point of need, NHS.
Has productivity in advanced economies been affected by increased stringency of environmental regulations?
The theme paper for TPI's Institutions & Governance research theme; the political institutions, governance systems and policies that have shaped the UK’s poor productivity performance.
How and why foreign direct investment can improve productivity and how this affects policymaking.
An analysis of the productivity growth of electricity transmission and distribution networks in Great Britain and how changes in incentive mechanism have influenced the measured total factor productivity.
The theme paper for TPI's Organisational Capital research theme; focusing on the three ways of improving firm level productivity in a given environment.
Examining how firms leverage their resources, through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) decisions, into profits growth.
Will the Covid-19 pandemic be sufficiently disruptive to deliver fundamental transformation, resulting in improved economic performance and more stable political and social arrangements?
The theme paper for TPI's Transitions research theme; how low-carbon and digital transitions are likely to deeply transform the productivity of economies and societies in the coming decades.
Presenting a taxonomy for tracing the physical and transition impacts of climate change through to impacts on sovereign risk, including productivity.
An analysis of quarterly estimates of productivity growth at industry level for three advanced economies, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, for 2020.
The theme paper for TPI's Human Capital research theme, calling for an interdisciplinary approach to understanding its contribution to productivity.
How did the UK's COVID-19 emergency public support measures influence firms' future investment intentions and employee well-being?
The size, sectoral allocation and implementation choices of green recovery spending plans in France, Germany and the UK differ markedly.
The theme paper for TPI's Knowledge Capital research theme, examining how ideas fundamentally drive productivity.
The Productivity Institute aims to bring together researchers, business executives and policy makers in the UK to provide solutions to the UK’s long-term productivity puzzle.
The impact of COVID-19 treatment pressures along with substantial falls in non-COVID-19 health care activities on measured productivity.
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