Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/312053 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11543
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
We propose a new data resource that attempts to overcome limitations of standard firm-level datasets for the UK (like the ARD/ABS) by building on administrative data covering the population of UK firms with at least one employee. We also construct a similar dataset for France and use both datasets to: 1) Provide some highlights of the data and an overall picture of the evolution of aggregate UK and French productivity and markups: 2) Analyse the spatial distribution of productivity in both countries at a fine level of detail – 228 Travel to Work Areas (TTWAs) for the UK and 297 Zones d'emploi (ZEs) for France – while focusing on the role of economic density. Our findings suggest that differences in firm productivity across regions are magnified in the aggregate by an increasing productivity return of density along the productivity distribution.
Subjects: 
firm-level dataset
merging
BSD
FAME
VAT
FICUS
FARE
productivity
markups
UK
France
regional disparities
density
JEL: 
R12
D24
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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