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Covid-19 and Productivity: Impact and Implications

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  • Mortimer-Lee, Paul
  • Adrian Pabst

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The UK has one of the poorest productivity performances and highest spatial inequalities among the OECD's 38 advanced economies and this has been made worse by Covid-19. If policymakers return to the same economic structures post-pandemic that failed to resolve the productivity problem pre-pandemic, then the UK is set for another decade of a low-growth, low-productivity and low-wage economy.

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  • Mortimer-Lee, Paul & Adrian Pabst, 2022. "Covid-19 and Productivity: Impact and Implications," National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) Occasional Papers 62, National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
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