Data Feature: Earnings Biases in the United Kingdom Regional Accounts: Some Economic Policy and Research Implications
发现1970年代末至1980年代末，英国区域账户数据显示的东南部收入溢价和区域收入差距增长远小于其他数据来源，并指出这可能源于税务局在区域间分配税务记录的问题，对区域消费和趋同研究及欧盟结构基金分配有影响。
Between the late 1970s and late 1980s, the UK Regional Accounts data suggest a much smaller rise in the South East earnings premium and consequently a much smaller increase in the regional dispersion of earnings than do the other sources of data. We discuss several possible explanations for this discrepancy and conclude it was probably due to problems at the Inland Revenue in allocating tax records across the regions. The historical unreliability of the Regional Accounts has implications for economic research on regional consumption and convergence and may have caused the poorest regions to miss out on EU Structural Funds.