Session in skills, training snd health at @productivity.bsky.social conference, presentation by @duranvj.bsky.social on the role on training on productivity across European countries. Training has a positive but small direct effect, but a large interaction effect with other intangibles.

Session in skills, training snd health at @productivity.bsky.social conference, presentation by @duranvj.bsky.social on the role on training on productivity across European countries. Training has a positive but small direct effect, but a large interaction effect with other intangibles.

Session on knowledge capital at @productivity.bsky.social Productivity Research Conference, Matthias Schief (@oecd-ocde.bsky.social) presents work on the impact of AI on productivity, using a task-based analysis. Wide range of effects across different industries, and GE effects between industries.

"We need to be better at factoring natural capital and the environment into our measurement of productivity" - @joshmartinecon.bsky.social during the panel session at the Productivity Research Conference. Read his TPI blog "Greening productivity measurement": www.productivity.ac.uk/news/greenin...

Session on productivity and macroeconomics at @productivity.bsky.social conference - Issam Samiri develops a model of labour supply in cities, accounting for commuting, with implications for the distribution of workers and productivity. #econsky

Is the productivity puzzle still a puzzle? 🧩 The opening panel session at @productivity.bsky.social's conference featured ESCoE Advisory Board member @bartvanark.bsky.social, Research Associate Mary O’Mahony and PhD student @joshmartinecon.bsky.social.

About to get going at the @productivity.bsky.social Productivity Research Conference 2025. Two days of discussions on all things #productivity coming up.

An interesting issue on the UK productivity puzzle, including an article by @joshmartinecon.bsky.social (@bankofengland.bsky.social and ESCoE/ @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social PhD student). @productivity.bsky.social

Some good summer reading! A new issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor (Spring 2025) with a Symposium of articles on the UK #productivitypuzzle. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sympos... Also a great article on #AI impacts on productivity by OECD. CSLS and @productivity.bsky.social

I worked in government statistics for some years, including a spell in ONS, and there are a few things to say here.

Final day of @escoeorg.bsky.social conference on economic measurement being kicked off by Sébastien Roux. He describes work by @insee.fr to develop augmented national accounts statistics, incorporating environmental factors by treating emissions as a production input. #EconStats2025

Session on productivity at @escoeorg.bsky.social conference #EconStats2025 - @emarvasi.bsky.social explores the nexus between intangible capital, market power, & productivity. Accounting for intangibles important for estimating mark-ups - they are lower and flatter, esp for US intan-intensive inds.

Now at ESCoE conference #EconStats2025, a panel discussion on trade and productivity with a range of speakers. Trade a topic of renewed interest, and productivity always important! Traders are more productive than non-traders, but much of that is selection effects.

Day 2 of the @escoeorg.bsky.social conference on economic measurement, kicking off with a panel on competition, dynamism and growth with @jschneebacher.bsky.social, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, @richarddavies.bsky.social and @teraallas.bsky.social. #EconStats2025

Next session at @escoeorg.bsky.social conference on productivity. Paper from @aaronputseys.bsky.social using a novel firm-to-firm transactions dataset to measure intangible investments, and exploring the J-curve-type mismeasurement of TFP at the firm level. Very interesting. #EconStats2025

Now at #EconStats2025 ESCoE conference, a panel session on the relevance to GDP in the modern economy. Featuring Richard Heys (ONS), @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and @chrisgiles.ft.com. United dislike for the famous Robert Kennedy quote, but divided views on the ongoing merits of GDP.

At @escoeorg.bsky.social conference #EconStats2025, I was pleased to kick off a session on labour markets. In joint work with @benbgeiger.bsky.social I explored the role of proxy responses on the UK LFS for trends in inactivity and sickness. Proxy responses are prevalent, but trends broadly robust.

Excited for this year's ESCoE annual conference on economic measurement! @escoeorg.bsky.social Three days of great research and discussion kicking off now. Rebecca Riley opens the conference, noting that recent challenges demonstrate the demand for statistics, and the opportunities ahead of us.

Today I'm at the Earnings Symposium organised by ONS, @escoeorg.bsky.social, ADR UK and @wagedynamics.bsky.social First presentations by ONS staff on the various data sources on wages - AWE, ASHE and PAYE RTI. Later sessions on applications with the data, including me on firm-level wage dynamics.

Jonathan Haskel announced as the new Chair of the Stakeholder Advisory Panel on Consumer Price Statistics for the UK Statistics Authority. Great appointment! uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/announc...

The call for papers for the workshop on "Firm Dynamics, Market Structures and Productivity in the Macroeconomy" closes on 14 April! This year's edition is co-organised by @qmul.ac.uk, @boeresearch.bsky.social, @bristoluni.bsky.social and @kent.ac.uk. Details: sophiepiton.com/papers/2025_...

This evening I'm at the @productivity.bsky.social and @escoeorg.bsky.social and RES event on firm-level productivity in the UK, as part of #NationalProductivityWeek. Will we "unlock productivity" as the title threatens?! (Think we'd need a little more than 2 hours...)

I'm at ONS & Department for Business and Trade event this morning in business dynamism, #productivity and growth. First, @twickersham.bsky.social describes new ONS work on dynamism and firm-level productivity. Most of the productivity slowdown post-GFC due to the middle of the firm distribution.

Final session of the conference, and Cliodhna Taylor (ONS) is talking about inclusive income and wealth - empirical estimates of "Beyond GDP" in a National Accounts framework, using existing available UK data. Big effects from including household production and human capital.

Session on "new insights" at ESCoE and UNSW conference on economic measurement. #EconStats2024 Ting Li and Mary Farrugia present an experimental linked account on digital economy and health activity. Lots of detailed work.

In a session on National Accounts measurement at @escoeorg.bsky.social & UNSW economic measurement conference. #EconStats2024 Grant Fitzner (ONS) describes work on measuring public service #productivity estimates, including conceptual challenges with preventative services in eg health, defence.

We're back for the second and final day of the @escoeorg.bsky.social and University of New South Wales conference on economic measurement here in Sydney. #EconStats2024 Up first, Jonathan Haskel gives the second keynote of the conference on productivity and innovation, with cross-country data.

More price measurement at ESCoE and UNSW economic measurement conference here in Sydney! #EconStats2024 Australia one of only 2 OECD countries without a monthly CPI (also NZ). But now being developed, as explained by Leigh Merrington and Jason Atkinson (Australian Bureau of Statistics).

Another session on prices at UNSW & @escoeorg.bsky.social conference on economic measurement #EconStats2024 Leigh Merrington (Australian Bureau of Statistics) talks about analytical measures of inflation. The CPI international manual is 500 pages long, but has only half a page on core inflation!

Contributed session on price measurement (wonk warning!) Bert Balk (Erasmus University Rotterdam) summarises methods in multilateral indices, notably extension methods, noting that they (re-)introduce chain drift bias.

Paul Schreyer (former OECD and current @escoeorg.bsky.social) gives the first keynote, on a range of topics around digital, environmental, capital and income. Very current topics in economic measurement and at the heart of SNA2025 updates. #EconStats2025

Welcomes from Kevin Fox (University of New South Wales) and David Gruen (Australian Bureau of Statistics) to Australia and the conference, noting the contributions and traditions of people in Australia for millennia. #EconStats2024