Authors
CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.
Howard Reed
International Research Fellow MIT
Tom is a Gordon Y Billard Professor of Economics at MIT and an International Fellow of IFS. He is a leading researcher in a new field of theory called semi-parametric econometrics, which combines traditional economic models with flexible statistical techniques and has recently applied these methods to studying worldwide carbon monoxide emissions, household gasoline demand, British unemployment, and productivity in U.S. coal mining.
Suggested citation
R, Blundell and H, Reed and T, Stoker. (2003). 'Interpreting aggregate wage growth' (2003)
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