Improving the policy impact of academic work - in topics of productivity industry employment skills and other areas of NIESR expertise

提高学术工作的政策影响——在生产力行业就业技能和 NIESR 专业知识的其他领域的主题

基本信息

批准号：
ES/K007416/1
负责人：
Jonathan Portes
金额：
$ 6.96万
依托单位：
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FK007416%2F1
关键词：
Improving policy impact academic work

项目摘要

This Knowledge Exchange fellowship has two strandsi. The Engagement focus aims to increase government use of academic work, by increased engagement between BIS and NIESR through a) a series of seminars for policy people, b) review of processes for government research and data management, and c) improved communication of the policy perspective.ii. The Research focus aims to undertake analysis of firm level data and explore the potential to extend the findings in the literature in order a) to gain greater impact on policy development from academic knowledge, and b) identify and develop potential for further policy relevant research from these areas of NIESR expertise.The Engagement focus of the project contains different elements:a. Seminars. NIESR has agreed to arrange a series of 4 seminars on BIS policy topics over the 12 months of the fellowship. These will involve experts from the academic community, including ESRC centres such as SKOPE, and will be open to government officials from BIS and other departments. The topics are likely to include areas such as macro-economic projections, migration and the labour market, and sources of productivity gain.b. Research and data processes. The opportunity of the Fellowship will be used to improve academic links with government processes for research and data where possible. The aim is to develop and provide greater feedback to academic bidders on the features of weaker bids, and how to strengthen them. c. Policy context. As well as policy relevant seminars, other steps will be taken to ensure that BIS priorities are conveyed to the academic community. The approach will be to arrange a workshop for academics, hosted by NIESR, and invite policy leads from government to provide feedback on what has worked for them. The Research focus will use firm-level micro-data to explore the relation between the dynamic economy (firms closing and opening, growing and contracting, improving and declining) and productivity, the labour market, and one or more of skills, innovation, high growth firms, sectors and clusters. The approach is to explore the potential of these data for greater insight and impact, rather than direct data analysis - in recognition of the challenges presented by the patchy documentation, and inconsistent data records.The starting point is the finding that the great majority of productivity gain arises from 'external restructuring' of firms or plants (80-90% of Total Factor Productivity according to Disney et al (2003), and greater according to Harris and Moffat (2012). At first sight this seems surprising - it suggests that little productivity gain occurs within existing firms or plants.The implication is sometimes drawn that economic churn amongst firms is the route for growth rather than improvement within firms. The picture could in fact be different. The empirical literature appears to focus mainly on churn among plants rather than firms and there is little detail on how much of the gain occurs between plants but within firms, and how much between firms. This is the first question that will be explored. The second stage will consider how this decomposition varies over time, under different macro-economic circumstances. The literature suggests there is some but not much variation. One would expect the components of change to differ at times of growth from times of contraction or recession. The third stage will assess the feasibility of separating the decomposition by firm size, as churn is likely to operate rather differently for small firms than for middle or larger ones. Policy on investment in areas such as skills or innovation will be informed and influenced by the findings.The fourth stage will explore the potential for future work in one or more policy areas - skills and training (building on work by Haskel et al 2003, Dearden et al 2005, and Galindo-Rueda et al 2005), in innovation, or employment.

这种知识交流奖学金有两个strandsi。参与重点旨在通过a）通过一系列政策人士的研讨会来增加政府对学术工作的利用，b）审查政府研究和数据管理过程，c）改善了政策观点的沟通。研究重点旨在对公司级别的数据进行分析，并探索扩展文献中发现的潜力，以便a）从学术知识中对政策制定产生更大的影响，b）从NIESR的这些领域确定并发展潜力，从NIESR的这些领域进行进一步的政策相关研究。项目的参与重点包含不同的要素：a。研讨会。 NIESR已同意在研究金的12个月内安排一系列关于BIS政策主题的4个研讨会。这些将涉及学术界的专家，包括Skope等ESRC中心，并向BIS和其他部门的政府官员开放。主题可能包括宏观经济预测，移民和劳动力市场等领域，以及生产力增长的来源。研究和数据过程。奖学金的机会将用于在可能的情况下与政府流程进行研究。目的是向学术竞标者开发并提供更多有关较弱的投标特征以及如何加强它们的反馈。 c。政策上下文。除政策相关的研讨会外，还将采取其他步骤来确保将BIS优先级传达给学术界。该方法将是安排由NIESR主持的学者研讨会，并邀请政府的政策领导，以提供有关对他们有用的事情的反馈。该研究重点将使用公司级的微数据来探索动态经济（公司关闭和开放，成长和签约，改善和下降）和生产力，劳动力市场以及一个或多种技能，创新，高增长公司，领域，部门和团结的关系。这种方法是探索这些数据的潜力，以实现更大的见解和影响，而不是直接数据分析 - 认识到片段文档所带来的挑战，并且数据记录不一致。起点是发现，大部分生产力的增长是从公司或工厂的“外部重组”引起的（根据Diseney Et and and Interiation and Interiation and Interiation and there and the Arties and there and there and there and ther（2003年）。似乎令人惊讶 - 这表明在现有的公司或工厂内，生产力很少。第二阶段将在不同的宏观经济环境下考虑这种分解如何随时间变化。文献表明有一些但没有太大变化。人们会期望变化的组成部分在增长时与收缩或衰退时期有所不同。第三阶段将评估将分解按公司规模分开的可行性，因为小公司的搅拌可能与中间或大型公司相当不同。在研究结果中，有关技能或创新领域投资的投资政策将受到调查结果的了解和影响。第四阶段将探索一个或多个政策领域的未来工作的潜力 - 技能和培训（Haskel等人2003年，Dearden等，Dearden等，2005，Galindo -Rueda等2005），创新或就业。