FHSA accounts do not provide information on prices of administrative inputs.
We used the New Earnings Survey Department of Employment, several years to Ž .
construct an index of administrative labour input prices as the regional average
gross weekly earnings for full-time non-manual workers on adult rates in public
administration. To allow for other sources of variation in input prices we also
included dummy variables for three types of area, relative to inner London: outer
London, metropolitan areas roughly other large city areas and shire counties Ž .
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