Mind the Capital Gap: i cittadini britannici sono più poveri perché ai lavoratori del Regno Unito viene negata il capitale

From the point of view of an international business though, why give British workers your most expensive productivity tools if past stats are telling you they’ll do 10 – 15% less with them than American or French workers? From the business perspective you’re gambling by investing in the British worker whose past performance on paper is lower.

It makes intuitive sense that with the same level of upgrades to equipment, British workers (who have similar education levels, working hours, employment rights) *might* do just as well as peers elsewhere, but you have empirical evidence that German or French workers are likely to do better.