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Wages and Productivity in Great Britain

In: Problems in Economic Development

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  • K. G. J. C. Knowles

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Despite the early proliferation of industrial institutions, laissez-faire has — paradoxically — been dying harder in Great Britain than in many other places and, while the gearing of wages to productivity is evidently of central importance, it is hard to find any appreciable ‘effects of wage policies on productivity’ or statistical relationship between the two. Thus the OEEC concluded that ‘given the antiquated nature of the institutional arrangements in a number of [British] industries, the weakness of the central bodies on both sides, and the lack of any clearly defined norm for arbitrators to take as a guide when making awards, there can be no assurance that wage increases will in future be kept in line with the growth potential of the economy’.1

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  • K. G. J. C. Knowles, 1965. "Wages and Productivity in Great Britain," International Economic Association Series, in: E. A. G. Robinson (ed.), Problems in Economic Development, chapter 0, pages 320-328, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-15223-0_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-15223-0_17
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