LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY IN 1980: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON

Work on a project examining recent trends in UK labour productivity is being carried out at NIESR for HM Treasury. It has always been envisaged that one facet of this work should involve an attempt to learn from the experience of other industrial countries. Given the interest aroused a few years ago by the publication in the Review of D. T. Jones's article on comparative labour productivity, the updating of some of his work seemed to be an appropriate way both of adding an international dimension to the present project and also of providing continuity of interest with earlier NIESR work in the same general field.