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

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Recent UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) revaluations of regional productivity data suggest that, after decades of interregional productivity divergence, the UK may once again be returning to 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 yield results that make it difficult to infer anything about regional productivity convergence or divergence.

Source: Research Explorer (The University of Manchester)

Authors: Gouma, Fokke Reitze, Mccann, Philip, Ortega-Argiles, Raquel; id_orcid 0000-0002-7783-2230

Language: English

Topic: Economic Growth and Productivity

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

Funder: Economic and Social Research Council

Award: The Productivity Institute

OpenAlex ID: W7128285090

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