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Building the evidence base for productivity policy using business data linking
This article reports on the work done in updating and extending the Annual Respondents Database, and summarises the main findings.
Authors: Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Haskel, Ralf Martin
Much government policy is aimed at raising productivity. Much of the work that has guided this policy is based on macro data of, for example, industries or countries.
This article reports on recent work by the Centre for Research into Business Activity (CeRiBA), using ONS data, to use micro data to inform policy.We describe the construction of an establishment-level manufacturing productivity panel dataset,its use and its combination with other datasets.
Published in web format: 11 November 2003 at 9:30 am
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