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Are UK Regional Productivity Disparities Really Narrowing? An Investigation into Recent Productivity Data Revisions

Fokke Reitze Gouma (), Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés ()

International Productivity Monitor, 2025, vol. 48, 63-84

Abstract: Recent UK data revaluations by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) on regional productivity data suggest that, after decades of interregional productivity divergence, the UK may finally once again be returning to something of an interregional productivity convergence framework. The aim of this article is to examine these data carefully, and to identify precisely what the recent ONS data really do tell us about UK regional productivity growth. We argue that the published data produce results from which it is difficult to infer anything about regional productivity convergence or divergence.

Keywords: Regional Productivity; Convergence; Data Revision; United Kingdom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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