...d datasets7sChapter 4:sSummary and Conclusionss13sReferencess15siiis1 [this page is blank] 1. Introductions1.1 The benefits from microeconometric analysis of plant level datasets are wellsdocumented (=-=Griffith, 1999-=-; Harris, 2002). Such analysis has also been used tosinform government policy (Harris and Robinson, 2002a; 2002b).sMuch of thisswork for the UK has been based on the Annual Respondents Database (ARD),...
...that employ more skilled workers benefit in terms of higherslevels of (total factor) productivity. The Employers Skills Survey datasets fors1999 and 2001 have previously been merged with the ARD (see =-=Hawkes, 2002-=-)sfor use in analysing the impact of skills on productivity (see, for example,sHaskel et. al., 2003). Thus, the merging of the ESS and ARD produces aspotentially significant resource for conducting ap...