Robert Dixon

The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster: A Case Study in the Analysis of Binary Data Using Scatter Diagrams and Logit Regression

Robert Dixon

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC REVIEW

Modelling the Spread of the Coronavirus: A View from Economics

Peter Lloyd, Robert Dixon

Journal article  |  2021  |  The Australian Economic Review

This article reviews the modelling of the spread in Australia of COVID‐19 from the point of view of the discipline of Economics. A..

Beyond Okun's Law: Output Growth and Labor Market Flows

Guay Lim, Robert Dixon, Jan van Ours

Journal article  |  2021  |  Empirical Economics: a quarterly journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach based on labor..

#FlattenTheCurve

Robert Dixon

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Australian Economic Review

In this paper I adapt a common model used in economics to study the diffusion of innovations to model the transmission of a virus...

Is the decline in labour's share in the US driven by changes in technology and/or market power? An empirical analysis

Robert Dixon, GC Lim

Journal article  |  2020  |  Applied Economics

In this paper, we provide a perspective on the explanations suggested for the decline in labour’s share in the Nonfinancial Corpor..

Beyond Okun’s law: Introducing labour market flows

Jan van Ours, Guay Lim, Robert Dixon

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

One version of Okun’s law specifies a relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth. This column uses..

Post-Keynesian Essays from Down Under, vol 1, 2, 3, 4

Robert Dixon

Journal article  |  2018  |  ECONOMIC AND LABOUR RELATIONS REVIEW

Marx 200 years on

Robert Dixon

Journal article  |  2018  |  ECONOMIC AND LABOUR RELATIONS REVIEW

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, the last of the classical political economists. This article aims..

LABOR'S SHARE, THE FIRM'S MARKET POWER, AND TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY

Robert Dixon, Guay C Lim

Journal article  |  2018  |  ECONOMIC INQUIRY

We investigate the relationship between labor's share, firm's market power, and the elasticity of output with respect to labor inp..

Revisiting the Okun relationship

R DIXON, G Lim, JC van Ours

Journal article  |  2017  |  Applied Economics

Our article revisits the Okun relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the relationship the..