This paper examines the nature of the productivity slowdown in the 1970s in the U.K. manufacturing industry by using a disaggregated industrial analysis. The extent of the slowdown in a particular industry is related to the capital and energy intensity of the industry and also to the previous...

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. The analyses reported relate to greater...