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Public enterprise revisited : a closer look at the 1954-79 UK labour productivity record / Chrisafis H. Iordanoglou

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Edward Elgar E-Book ArchivePublisher: Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass : Edward Elgar Pub, 2001Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 659 p) : illISBN:
  • 9781781950371
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 1840644567 | 9781840644562 (hardback) | Available in another form: 9781840644562 (hardback) | Elektronische Reproduktion von: Public enterprise revisited. Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2001. XI, 659 SDDC classification:
  • 331.11/8 21
RVK: RVK: QR 420LOC classification:
  • HD4145
DOI: DOI: 10.4337/9781781950371Online resources: Summary: The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly faster than that of the private sector industries. Strikingly, he also finds that the state-owned industries were narrowing their productivity gap with their US counterparts at a significantly faster rate than the private sector industries. Dr Iordanoglou concludes that it is possible that public ownership had--in the historical period investigated--a long-term positive effect on these industriesSummary: 1. Introduction -- 2. Selection of the sample -- 3. The intertemporal labour productivity comparisons -- 4. US-UK labour productivity comparisons -- 5. Questions of interpretationPPN: PPN: 1023438259Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE
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