Robert John Dixon’s research while affiliated with University of Melbourne and other places

... The complex relationship between agricultural production and employment in this sector has been a debated topic. Several studies, including Lim et al. (2021), Altunöz (2019), and Ibragimov and Ibragimov (2017), have found a connection between production output and employment. This study employs a time series analysis to investigate this relationship at the sectoral level. ...

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Agricultural Production and Agricultural Employment Rate in South Africa: Time Series Analysis Approach

... In times of recessions, the Okun coefficient tends to be higher than in periods of economic expansion due to decisions of firm owners to escape any hesitation in the layoff of workers during a recession. On the other side, in times of economic expansion firm owners prefer to increase overtime working hours than to increase employment (Lim, et al., 2018). A country-level analysis for EU28 also indicates similar results, higher Okun In the literature several factors can be recognized as influential ones to the Okun coefficient: ...

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Okun's law and assessment of stimulus to the economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina

... Autor et al. (2017) also find an increasing industry concentration in several sectors over the period 1980-2010. De Loecker and Eeckhout (2017, as well as Dixon and Lim, (2017) use firm-level markups as another indicator for market power and they find significantly increasing average markups over the last few decades in the US. ...

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Markups and Concentration in the Context of Digitization: Evidence from German Manufacturing Industries

... In other words, investigating the gender economic inclusive response to economic growth is worthwhile in understanding if the recent growth resurgence of the country has benefited women in terms of their involvement in the formal economic sector. Moreover, building on the approach adopted by Dixon et al. (2017), an extension of this study would be to estimate Okun's relationship using unemployment rates disaggregated by age, gender, industry, and region. ...

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Female Unemployment and Economic Growth in Cameroon: An Estimation of a Nonlinear Okun's Law Specification by the ARDL Cointegration Model

... It was a derogatory term applied to economics in the mid-19th century by Thomas Carlyle who opposed its laissez-faire, free market orientation, particularly with respect to mobilization of labor. Carlyle favored enslavement of Blacks in the West Indies over the hiring of free labor to perform the work required in colonial plantation agriculture (see Dixon 2006). 2. Anderson and Dunn (2006) provide a compelling illustration of Galbraith's want-creation hypothesis in the practices of the corporations making tobacco products. ...

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Alternatives to the scarcity principle

... This rate is consistent with RBA estimates of the current NAIRU (Ellis 2019), although some estimates point to a value as low as 3.3 per cent (Lye and McDonald 2019). As a point of comparison, the estimated timevarying equilibrium unemployment rate was about 5.0 per cent prior to the GFC (Lim, Dixon and Tsiaplias 2009). ...

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The Australian Economy in 2019–20: Slower Growth, Record Low Interest Rates and a Changing Housing Landscape

... Several studies have focused on the urban-regional dichotomy of the labour market and noted, for example, that regional differences in participation and unemployment rates persist and that urban labour markets are growing both in size and diversity at faster rates than regional labour markets. (Dixon and Shepherd, 2011;Cunningham and Davis, 2011) Using multi-level survey and census data for Australian non-metropolitan regions Baum et al. (2008) observed that the risk of labour underutilisation in non-metropolitan regions was associated with a range of individual characteristics and circumstances together with the characteristics of the local labour market. Thus, policy designed to address issues of labour underutilisation needs to focus on both supply and demand-sides of the labour market in order to be effective. ...

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EARNINGS OUTCOMES IN METROPOLITAN AND REGIONAL LABOUR MARKETS– A GENDER-BASED ANALYSIS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES AND VICTORIA

... Although a number of people have examined flow probabilities between various labour market states (Fahrer and Heath (1992), Leeves (1997), Dixon, et al. (2003)) no one appears to have examined the net flows between states, at least over long periods. 2 The next section of the paper sets out how the data set has been constructed and its origins. To keep things straight-forward we look only at seasonally adjusted data for persons. ...

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An Examination of Net Flows in the Australian Labour Market

... Similarly, Creedy and Dixon (1998) find that the welfare loss associated with monopoly power for 14 commodity groups (including food, beverages and housing costs) is 46% higher for the poorest decile compared to the richest decile in Australia. Creedy and Dixon (2000) also elicit a similar result for New Zealand. In Kenya, Argent and Begazo (2015) find that allowing sugar and maize prices to fall by 20% by relaxing government policies that restrict competition would lead to welfare gains for all income groups. ...

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Effects of Competition Policy on Macroeconomic Outcomes

... We found that the conclusions from the simple correlation method and the 'beta' method are very similar to those from our reported R 2 results from regression analysis. 22 These results for our full sample are in line with the findings of Dixon et al. (2007) for a 1979:3– 2007:3 sample. They demonstrate that shocks to the unemployment entry rate were more important for unemployment dynamics in Australia than shocks to the unemployment exit rate. ...

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Cyclical Flows in Australian Labour Markets*