Introduction to the Symposium on Productivity and Well-being, Part I

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Abstract

This introduction provides background on the IPM’s first-ever symposium on productivity-well-being linkages, arising from a virtual workshop held in November 2021. It discusses the motivation (the CSLS-TPI partnership; growing policy interest in well-being beyond GDP); the organizational process (call for papers, refereeing, seven accepted papers split across Issues 42 and 43); and a synthesis of the four Part I articles covering capital stocks approaches to well-being TFP, trust and productivity/well-being, time use and household production measurement, and the link between labour productivity and UK living standards.

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