Josh Martin
@joshmartinecon.bsky.social
Economic Adviser at Bank of England. Current PhD at King's College London. Previously ONS. Interests: Productivity, intangibles, capital, stats. Member of ESCoE, The Productivity Institute. Only personal views.
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What kinds of careers can you build in and around research, and how do you get started?
Career stories from ESCoE researchers and staff members.
@joshmartinecon.bsky.social @stuartgmcintyre.bsky.social
Career stories from ESCoE researchers and staff members.
@joshmartinecon.bsky.social @stuartgmcintyre.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
What kinds of careers can you build in and around research, and how do you get started?
Career stories from ESCoE researchers and staff members.
@joshmartinecon.bsky.social @stuartgmcintyre.bsky.social
Career stories from ESCoE researchers and staff members.
@joshmartinecon.bsky.social @stuartgmcintyre.bsky.social
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Ahead of his presentation @productivity.bsky.social's recent conference @manchester.ac.uk, we spoke to @joshmartinecon.bsky.social about his new work with Cliodhna Taylor (ONS) on labour productivity estimates with more industry detail.
Full video: tinyurl.com/mw53uhpa
@kingsbschool.bsky.social
Full video: tinyurl.com/mw53uhpa
@kingsbschool.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Ahead of his presentation @productivity.bsky.social's recent conference @manchester.ac.uk, we spoke to @joshmartinecon.bsky.social about his new work with Cliodhna Taylor (ONS) on labour productivity estimates with more industry detail.
Full video: tinyurl.com/mw53uhpa
@kingsbschool.bsky.social
Full video: tinyurl.com/mw53uhpa
@kingsbschool.bsky.social
New #productivity data - we build labour productivity estimates for over 180 industries in the UK, more than doubling the detail available from official stats. #econsky
Paper with @escoeorg.bsky.social - www.escoe.ac.uk/publications...
Blog - www.escoe.ac.uk/uk-labour-pr...
Paper with @escoeorg.bsky.social - www.escoe.ac.uk/publications...
Blog - www.escoe.ac.uk/uk-labour-pr...
UK labour productivity estimates for 184 industries - ESCoE
New research from ESCoE and The Productivity Institute produces UK productivity estimates for 184 industries.
www.escoe.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
New #productivity data - we build labour productivity estimates for over 180 industries in the UK, more than doubling the detail available from official stats. #econsky
Paper with @escoeorg.bsky.social - www.escoe.ac.uk/publications...
Blog - www.escoe.ac.uk/uk-labour-pr...
Paper with @escoeorg.bsky.social - www.escoe.ac.uk/publications...
Blog - www.escoe.ac.uk/uk-labour-pr...
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How can we measure productivity across the economy in greater detail?
In this blog, ESCoE PhD student @joshmartinecon.bsky.social reflects on a new technical report with ESCoE & @productivity.bsky.social's Data Lab, co-authored with ONS's Cliodhna Taylor: tinyurl.com/yc5zecat
In this blog, ESCoE PhD student @joshmartinecon.bsky.social reflects on a new technical report with ESCoE & @productivity.bsky.social's Data Lab, co-authored with ONS's Cliodhna Taylor: tinyurl.com/yc5zecat
UK labour productivity estimates for 184 industries - ESCoE
New research from ESCoE and The Productivity Institute produces UK productivity estimates for 184 industries.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
How can we measure productivity across the economy in greater detail?
In this blog, ESCoE PhD student @joshmartinecon.bsky.social reflects on a new technical report with ESCoE & @productivity.bsky.social's Data Lab, co-authored with ONS's Cliodhna Taylor: tinyurl.com/yc5zecat
In this blog, ESCoE PhD student @joshmartinecon.bsky.social reflects on a new technical report with ESCoE & @productivity.bsky.social's Data Lab, co-authored with ONS's Cliodhna Taylor: tinyurl.com/yc5zecat
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The programme is now out and includes ESCoE's @joshmartinecon.bsky.social and @yannisgalanakis.bsky.social, with a keynote from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's Jonathan Haskel: tinyurl.com/7st5fv73
@jschneebacher.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk
@jschneebacher.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk
📢 Call for papers!
Join the 4th CMA- @durham-university.bsky.social workshop on productivity, business dynamism & market power.
📍 Durham University
📅 20–21 Nov 2025
🗓️ Submit by 25 Sept: tinyurl.com/ybsmsvdv
Join the 4th CMA- @durham-university.bsky.social workshop on productivity, business dynamism & market power.
📍 Durham University
📅 20–21 Nov 2025
🗓️ Submit by 25 Sept: tinyurl.com/ybsmsvdv
October 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The programme is now out and includes ESCoE's @joshmartinecon.bsky.social and @yannisgalanakis.bsky.social, with a keynote from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's Jonathan Haskel: tinyurl.com/7st5fv73
@jschneebacher.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk
@jschneebacher.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk
Pleased to have this paper out, which documents an application to the UK of the Bernanke-Blanchard model of wages, inflation and expectations. This is the UK work that feeds into the Bernanke & Blanchard cross-country paper.
Insights on recent UK inflation and associated data #econsky
Insights on recent UK inflation and associated data #econsky
How can we use economic statistics to explain recent UK inflation?
A new ESCoE Discussion Paper by Jonathan Haskel, @joshmartinecon.bsky.social and Lennart Brandt uses a range of economic statistics to shed light on the recent UK inflation experience.
Read the blog: tinyurl.com/npc595r7
A new ESCoE Discussion Paper by Jonathan Haskel, @joshmartinecon.bsky.social and Lennart Brandt uses a range of economic statistics to shed light on the recent UK inflation experience.
Read the blog: tinyurl.com/npc595r7
Using economic statistics to explain recent UK inflation - ESCoE
This blog explores how combining multiple datasets and using economic modelling reveals the main drivers of 2021–2024 inflation.
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September 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Pleased to have this paper out, which documents an application to the UK of the Bernanke-Blanchard model of wages, inflation and expectations. This is the UK work that feeds into the Bernanke & Blanchard cross-country paper.
Insights on recent UK inflation and associated data #econsky
Insights on recent UK inflation and associated data #econsky
Session in skills, training snd health at @productivity.bsky.social conference, presentation by @duranvj.bsky.social on the role on training on productivity across European countries. Training has a positive but small direct effect, but a large interaction effect with other intangibles.
September 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Session in skills, training snd health at @productivity.bsky.social conference, presentation by @duranvj.bsky.social on the role on training on productivity across European countries. Training has a positive but small direct effect, but a large interaction effect with other intangibles.
Session in skills, training snd health at @productivity.bsky.social conference, presentation by @duranvj.bsky.social on the role on training on productivity across European countries. Training has a positive but small direct effect, but a large interaction effect with other intangibles.
September 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Session in skills, training snd health at @productivity.bsky.social conference, presentation by @duranvj.bsky.social on the role on training on productivity across European countries. Training has a positive but small direct effect, but a large interaction effect with other intangibles.
Session on knowledge capital at @productivity.bsky.social Productivity Research Conference, Matthias Schief (@oecd-ocde.bsky.social) presents work on the impact of AI on productivity, using a task-based analysis. Wide range of effects across different industries, and GE effects between industries.
September 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Session on knowledge capital at @productivity.bsky.social Productivity Research Conference, Matthias Schief (@oecd-ocde.bsky.social) presents work on the impact of AI on productivity, using a task-based analysis. Wide range of effects across different industries, and GE effects between industries.
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"We need to be better at factoring natural capital and the environment into our measurement of productivity" - @joshmartinecon.bsky.social during the panel session at the Productivity Research Conference.
Read his TPI blog "Greening productivity measurement": www.productivity.ac.uk/news/greenin...
Read his TPI blog "Greening productivity measurement": www.productivity.ac.uk/news/greenin...
September 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"We need to be better at factoring natural capital and the environment into our measurement of productivity" - @joshmartinecon.bsky.social during the panel session at the Productivity Research Conference.
Read his TPI blog "Greening productivity measurement": www.productivity.ac.uk/news/greenin...
Read his TPI blog "Greening productivity measurement": www.productivity.ac.uk/news/greenin...
Session on productivity and macroeconomics at @productivity.bsky.social conference - Issam Samiri develops a model of labour supply in cities, accounting for commuting, with implications for the distribution of workers and productivity. #econsky
September 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Session on productivity and macroeconomics at @productivity.bsky.social conference - Issam Samiri develops a model of labour supply in cities, accounting for commuting, with implications for the distribution of workers and productivity. #econsky
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Is the productivity puzzle still a puzzle? 🧩
The opening panel session at @productivity.bsky.social's conference featured ESCoE Advisory Board member @bartvanark.bsky.social, Research Associate Mary O’Mahony and PhD student @joshmartinecon.bsky.social.
The opening panel session at @productivity.bsky.social's conference featured ESCoE Advisory Board member @bartvanark.bsky.social, Research Associate Mary O’Mahony and PhD student @joshmartinecon.bsky.social.
September 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Is the productivity puzzle still a puzzle? 🧩
The opening panel session at @productivity.bsky.social's conference featured ESCoE Advisory Board member @bartvanark.bsky.social, Research Associate Mary O’Mahony and PhD student @joshmartinecon.bsky.social.
The opening panel session at @productivity.bsky.social's conference featured ESCoE Advisory Board member @bartvanark.bsky.social, Research Associate Mary O’Mahony and PhD student @joshmartinecon.bsky.social.
About to get going at the @productivity.bsky.social Productivity Research Conference 2025. Two days of discussions on all things #productivity coming up.
September 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
About to get going at the @productivity.bsky.social Productivity Research Conference 2025. Two days of discussions on all things #productivity coming up.
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An interesting issue on the UK productivity puzzle, including an article by @joshmartinecon.bsky.social (@bankofengland.bsky.social and ESCoE/ @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social PhD student).
@productivity.bsky.social
@productivity.bsky.social
Some good summer reading!
A new issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor (Spring 2025) with a Symposium of articles on the UK #productivitypuzzle. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sympos...
Also a great article on #AI impacts on productivity by OECD.
CSLS and @productivity.bsky.social
A new issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor (Spring 2025) with a Symposium of articles on the UK #productivitypuzzle. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sympos...
Also a great article on #AI impacts on productivity by OECD.
CSLS and @productivity.bsky.social
Symposium on the UK Productivity Puzzle: Insights from Data, Regions and Sectors
The latest issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor features a symposium of four insightful and timely contributions addressing the UK productivity puzzle—assuming, of course, that one still con...
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July 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
An interesting issue on the UK productivity puzzle, including an article by @joshmartinecon.bsky.social (@bankofengland.bsky.social and ESCoE/ @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social PhD student).
@productivity.bsky.social
@productivity.bsky.social
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Some good summer reading!
A new issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor (Spring 2025) with a Symposium of articles on the UK #productivitypuzzle. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sympos...
Also a great article on #AI impacts on productivity by OECD.
CSLS and @productivity.bsky.social
A new issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor (Spring 2025) with a Symposium of articles on the UK #productivitypuzzle. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sympos...
Also a great article on #AI impacts on productivity by OECD.
CSLS and @productivity.bsky.social
Symposium on the UK Productivity Puzzle: Insights from Data, Regions and Sectors
The latest issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor features a symposium of four insightful and timely contributions addressing the UK productivity puzzle—assuming, of course, that one still con...
www.linkedin.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Some good summer reading!
A new issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor (Spring 2025) with a Symposium of articles on the UK #productivitypuzzle. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sympos...
Also a great article on #AI impacts on productivity by OECD.
CSLS and @productivity.bsky.social
A new issue of the #InternationalProductivityMonitor (Spring 2025) with a Symposium of articles on the UK #productivitypuzzle. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sympos...
Also a great article on #AI impacts on productivity by OECD.
CSLS and @productivity.bsky.social
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I worked in government statistics for some years, including a spell in ONS, and there are a few things to say here.
June 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I worked in government statistics for some years, including a spell in ONS, and there are a few things to say here.
Final day of @escoeorg.bsky.social conference on economic measurement being kicked off by Sébastien Roux. He describes work by @insee.fr to develop augmented national accounts statistics, incorporating environmental factors by treating emissions as a production input. #EconStats2025
May 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Final day of @escoeorg.bsky.social conference on economic measurement being kicked off by Sébastien Roux. He describes work by @insee.fr to develop augmented national accounts statistics, incorporating environmental factors by treating emissions as a production input. #EconStats2025
Session on productivity at @escoeorg.bsky.social conference #EconStats2025 - @emarvasi.bsky.social explores the nexus between intangible capital, market power, & productivity. Accounting for intangibles important for estimating mark-ups - they are lower and flatter, esp for US intan-intensive inds.
May 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Session on productivity at @escoeorg.bsky.social conference #EconStats2025 - @emarvasi.bsky.social explores the nexus between intangible capital, market power, & productivity. Accounting for intangibles important for estimating mark-ups - they are lower and flatter, esp for US intan-intensive inds.
Now at ESCoE conference #EconStats2025, a panel discussion on trade and productivity with a range of speakers.
Trade a topic of renewed interest, and productivity always important! Traders are more productive than non-traders, but much of that is selection effects.
Trade a topic of renewed interest, and productivity always important! Traders are more productive than non-traders, but much of that is selection effects.
May 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Now at ESCoE conference #EconStats2025, a panel discussion on trade and productivity with a range of speakers.
Trade a topic of renewed interest, and productivity always important! Traders are more productive than non-traders, but much of that is selection effects.
Trade a topic of renewed interest, and productivity always important! Traders are more productive than non-traders, but much of that is selection effects.
Day 2 of the @escoeorg.bsky.social conference on economic measurement, kicking off with a panel on competition, dynamism and growth with @jschneebacher.bsky.social, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, @richarddavies.bsky.social and @teraallas.bsky.social. #EconStats2025
May 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Day 2 of the @escoeorg.bsky.social conference on economic measurement, kicking off with a panel on competition, dynamism and growth with @jschneebacher.bsky.social, @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, @richarddavies.bsky.social and @teraallas.bsky.social. #EconStats2025
Next session at @escoeorg.bsky.social conference on productivity. Paper from @aaronputseys.bsky.social using a novel firm-to-firm transactions dataset to measure intangible investments, and exploring the J-curve-type mismeasurement of TFP at the firm level. Very interesting. #EconStats2025
May 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Next session at @escoeorg.bsky.social conference on productivity. Paper from @aaronputseys.bsky.social using a novel firm-to-firm transactions dataset to measure intangible investments, and exploring the J-curve-type mismeasurement of TFP at the firm level. Very interesting. #EconStats2025
Now at #EconStats2025 ESCoE conference, a panel session on the relevance to GDP in the modern economy. Featuring Richard Heys (ONS), @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and @chrisgiles.ft.com.
United dislike for the famous Robert Kennedy quote, but divided views on the ongoing merits of GDP.
United dislike for the famous Robert Kennedy quote, but divided views on the ongoing merits of GDP.
May 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Now at #EconStats2025 ESCoE conference, a panel session on the relevance to GDP in the modern economy. Featuring Richard Heys (ONS), @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and @chrisgiles.ft.com.
United dislike for the famous Robert Kennedy quote, but divided views on the ongoing merits of GDP.
United dislike for the famous Robert Kennedy quote, but divided views on the ongoing merits of GDP.
At @escoeorg.bsky.social conference #EconStats2025, I was pleased to kick off a session on labour markets.
In joint work with @benbgeiger.bsky.social I explored the role of proxy responses on the UK LFS for trends in inactivity and sickness. Proxy responses are prevalent, but trends broadly robust.
In joint work with @benbgeiger.bsky.social I explored the role of proxy responses on the UK LFS for trends in inactivity and sickness. Proxy responses are prevalent, but trends broadly robust.
May 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
At @escoeorg.bsky.social conference #EconStats2025, I was pleased to kick off a session on labour markets.
In joint work with @benbgeiger.bsky.social I explored the role of proxy responses on the UK LFS for trends in inactivity and sickness. Proxy responses are prevalent, but trends broadly robust.
In joint work with @benbgeiger.bsky.social I explored the role of proxy responses on the UK LFS for trends in inactivity and sickness. Proxy responses are prevalent, but trends broadly robust.
Excited for this year's ESCoE annual conference on economic measurement! @escoeorg.bsky.social
Three days of great research and discussion kicking off now.
Rebecca Riley opens the conference, noting that recent challenges demonstrate the demand for statistics, and the opportunities ahead of us.
Three days of great research and discussion kicking off now.
Rebecca Riley opens the conference, noting that recent challenges demonstrate the demand for statistics, and the opportunities ahead of us.
May 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Excited for this year's ESCoE annual conference on economic measurement! @escoeorg.bsky.social
Three days of great research and discussion kicking off now.
Rebecca Riley opens the conference, noting that recent challenges demonstrate the demand for statistics, and the opportunities ahead of us.
Three days of great research and discussion kicking off now.
Rebecca Riley opens the conference, noting that recent challenges demonstrate the demand for statistics, and the opportunities ahead of us.
Today I'm at the Earnings Symposium organised by ONS, @escoeorg.bsky.social, ADR UK and @wagedynamics.bsky.social
First presentations by ONS staff on the various data sources on wages - AWE, ASHE and PAYE RTI.
Later sessions on applications with the data, including me on firm-level wage dynamics.
First presentations by ONS staff on the various data sources on wages - AWE, ASHE and PAYE RTI.
Later sessions on applications with the data, including me on firm-level wage dynamics.
April 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Today I'm at the Earnings Symposium organised by ONS, @escoeorg.bsky.social, ADR UK and @wagedynamics.bsky.social
First presentations by ONS staff on the various data sources on wages - AWE, ASHE and PAYE RTI.
Later sessions on applications with the data, including me on firm-level wage dynamics.
First presentations by ONS staff on the various data sources on wages - AWE, ASHE and PAYE RTI.
Later sessions on applications with the data, including me on firm-level wage dynamics.