Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17964 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2007-41
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper argues that the production constraints in the basic NAIRU model should be distinguished by type: capital constraints and labour constraints. It notes the failure to incorporate this phenomenon in standard macro models. Using panel data for UK manufacturing over eighty quarters it is shown that capital constraints became relatively more important during the 1980s as industry failed to match the increase in labour flexibility with rising capital investment.
Subjects: 
capital labour constraints nairu panel
data structural
breaks
JEL: 
C23
E24
E22
D24
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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