Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Why did UK Manufacturing Productivity Growth Slow Down in the 1970s and Speed Up in the 1980s?.
Author-Name: Cameron, G.
Keywords: INNOVATIONS ; HUMAN CAPITAL ; ECONOMIC GROWTH
Length: 32 pages
Abstract: After a dramatic slowdown in the 1970s, productivity growth in UK manufacturing in the 1980s returned to something like its pre-slowdown trend. This paper constructs a quarterly dynamic model of TFP growth in UK manufacturing using cointegration techniques, correcting for a variety of measurement biases.
Classification-JEL: C13 ; C22 ; O30 ; O47
Creation-Date: 1999
Handle: RePEc:nuf:econwp:1999-W24

Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Instant Exit from the War of Attrition.
Author-Name: Myatt, D.P.
Keywords: GAME THEORY
Length: 17 pages
Abstract: This paper takes a new look at the classic concession game. It argues that exit from an asymmetric war of attrition is likely to be instant. Selecting a unique equilibrium using a "craziness" pertubation device, it finds a notion of stochastic strength determines the outcome, with a stochastically weaker player giving up immediately.
Classification-JEL: C70
Creation-Date: 1999
Handle: RePEc:nuf:econwp:1999-W22

Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: The Effects of Labour Market Institutions on the Employment Dynamics over the Cycle.
Author-Name: Nunziata, L.
Keywords: LABOUR MARKET ; EMPLOYMENT ; BUSINESS CYCLES
Length: 51 pages
Abstract: The object of this paper is the analysis of the effects of labour market institutions on the employment dynamics over the cycle. In the first part a theoretical framework is provided with particular emphasis on working time regulations. The conclusions of the model are empirically tested in the second part, using a sample of 20 OECD countries.
Classification-JEL: E32 ; J21 ; E24
Creation-Date: 1999
Handle: RePEc:nuf:econwp:1999-W26

Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Multidimensional Inequality Measurement: a Proposal.
Author-Name: List, C.
Keywords: INCOME DISTRIBUTION ; SOCIAL CHOICE ; POVERTY
Length: 23 pages
Abstract: Two essential intuitions about the concept of multidimensional inequality have been highlighted in the emerging body of literature on this subject: first, multidimensional inequality should be a function of the uniform inequality of a multivariate distribution of goods or attributes across people (Kolm, 1977); and second, it should also be a function of the cross-correlation between distributions of goods or attributes in different dimensions (Atkinson and Bourguignon, 1982; Walzer, 1983). The present paper proposes a general method of designing a wider range of multidimensional inequality indices that also respect both intuitions, and illustrates this method by defining two classes of such indices: a generalization of the Gini coefficient, and a generalization of Atkinson ; s one-dimensional measure of inequality.
Classification-JEL: D31 ; D63 ; I31
Creation-Date: 1999
Handle: RePEc:nuf:econwp:1999-W27