Presented by Josh Martin, Bank of England and ESCoE
There is always much demand for productivity estimates for detailed industries. This webinar will present new work to construct labour productivity estimates for 184 industries spanning the entire UK economy – more than double the granularity available from official datasets.
The estimates are based on only publicly-available data sources and transparent and reproducible methods in order to enable the estimates to be used, adapted and updated by other researchers. The methods ensure a high degree of consistency with official productivity statistics and conformity with National Accounts concepts. While this level of granularity presents potential data quality concerns, the trade-off between granularity and quality in the estimates is more favourable than that inherent in official productivity statistics.
The webinar will present the first update to the estimates since their initial release in October 2025, as well as some policy applications and analysis on the distribution of productivity across the economy.
Presenter bio
Josh Martin is an Economic Advisor working on productivity and labour market analysis at the Bank of England. He previously worked at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) between 2016 and 2022 in a variety of roles, most recently as Head of Productivity statistics. His previous work at the ONS included measuring intangible assets and infrastructure, measuring the productivity of public services, and microdata analysis. He has a keen interest in measuring capital, having worked extensively on improving ONS’ capital investment and stocks data. Josh was awarded an NBER Summers Fellowship in 2024.
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