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The Employment Effects of Changes in the Structure of UK Trade (1985)
Journal Article
Driver, C., Kilpatrick, A., & Naisbitt, B. (1985). The Employment Effects of Changes in the Structure of UK Trade. Journal of Economic Studies, 12(5), 19-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002610

This article uses a 22‐industry breakdown of the UK manufacturing sector to examine the effects on employment of various changes in the structure, but not the overall level, of exports, imports, and trade balances within an input‐output framework. Th... Read More about The Employment Effects of Changes in the Structure of UK Trade.

Testing the Gershuny hypothesis (1984)
Journal Article
Driver, C. (1984). Testing the Gershuny hypothesis. Futures: for the interdisciplinary study of futures, visioning, anticipation and foresight, 16(5), 508-512. https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-3287%2884%2990081-8

This article tests the Gershuny hypothesis using UK input-output data. Gershuny has suggested that in many countries the share of consumer expenditure devoted to private or marketed services has not risen over time. Rather, consumers have tended to s... Read More about Testing the Gershuny hypothesis.

State aid and industrial characteristics (1980)
Journal Article
Davies, H., Dorward, N., Driver, C., & Topple, M. (1980). State aid and industrial characteristics. Applied Economics, 12(4), 413-427. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036848000000003

This paper sheds some empirical light on the relationship between disbursements of aid to British industry and the characteristics of the receiving industries. The technique of canonical correlation is used to test the hypothesis that the provision o... Read More about State aid and industrial characteristics.