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Business Data Linking: An introduction
Introduces the ONS Business Data Linking project; presents some initial findings about the relative performance of domestic and foreign businesses in the UK.
Research has been conducted for many years on UK productivity. However, because of data availability, almost all of this UK work has been aggregate in nature, either looking at whole-economy productivity or at industry-level productivity. This work has rightly been very influential in, for example, documenting the UK productivity gap with other countries and suggesting some of the productivity drivers that policy might act upon. Such analyses cannot tell the whole story however. For example, aggregate data provides no information on how much entry of new firms and exit of older ones contributes to productivity growth. New lines of research using this disaggregated data, have gained recognition in numerous recent policy documents.
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