Don J Webber
Biographic Data
| ID | 255436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don J Webber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don J |
| FAMILY NAME | Webber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBBER D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1488-3436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Geographies of feeling stuck behind and populist voting in The Netherlands
Consensus, Diversity and the Wisdom of the Crowd: Predicting Final Rank Positions of the English Premier League
This study assesses the Wisdom of the Crowd premise using a natural experiment. We collected primary data relating to predictions of the final football club rank positions in the English Premier League over two consecutive seasons using an innovative game and compared these predictions with predictions made by sporting pundits, football blogs and inferred from betting odds. Our results question the Wisdom of the Crowd premise, and we show that sc…
Do city region policies neglect rural areas
A city region established around a smaller city typically has a higher percentage of its region being rural relative to city regions based around larger cities. Appreciation of this observation leads to the realisation that much of the existing literature focuses on city regions based around larger cities with small rural hinterlands. This paper develops a conceptual model outlining linkages within and beyond city regions and identifies that not …
Cultural proximity bias in AI-acceptability: The importance of being human
House price affordability, the global financial crisis and the (ir)relevance of mortgage rates
Although house prices and wages are both influenced by distinct factors that shape their own evolutions, they are also intrinsically connected through house price affordability. Further, macroeconomic policies centred around adjustments in the mortgage rate are of prime importance in ensuring that the housing market does not overheat. This study contributes to the understanding of the link between housing market affordability and mortgage rates b…
Achieving wider impact in business and management: Analysing the case studies from REF 2014
Universities, across the globe, are increasingly judged on social and economic impact. An important initiative in the UK is the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, which assessed the wider impact of university research. The Impact Case Studies, produced for REF 2014, provide a rich new source of information to explore the wider impact of Business and Management (B&M) research. Each B&M case study, from a structured sample of 194, was read a…
Regional Growth Paths and Resilience: A European Analysis
Research highlighting the differential resilience of economies to shocks opens up the possibility that long-run growth paths are associated with how regions cope with and recover from such shocks. To date, however, there has been limited exploration into whether long-run evolutionary growth paths or trajectories influence regional economic resilience and what types of trajectories might be more associated with resilience. This article explores th…
Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region
Productivity is the preferred measure of firm-level efficiency and perceived to reflect resource use rates. Semi-structured interviews with restaurant managers in a tourism-dominated low productivity rural area reveal that they are motivated to supply products that they believe in and to sustain a quality of life that meets their needs rather than striving to achieve higher productivity. Pricing strategies, managerial objectives and local market …
A Review of People’s Behavior in and around Floodwater
A study was undertaken to review international literature pertaining to people’s behavior in and around floodwater. The review focused on people’s voluntary entry of floodwater. From the literature, five predominant reasons for entering floodwater were identified, including undertaking a recreational activity; attempting to reach a destination; retrieving property, livestock, or pets; undertaking employment duties; and rescuing or assisting with …
Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental health? A panel data analysis
The Role of Structural Change in European Regional Productivity Growth
O’Leary E. and Webber D. J. The role of structural change in European regional productivity growth, Regional Studies. Recent literature suggests that inter-sectoral structural change has a negligible impact on aggregate productivity growth. Through the application of dynamic shift–share methods, this paper presents a re-examination of this perspective using data for 181 European regions from 1980 to 2007. Results suggest that the effect of the in…
Mental and physical health: Re-Assessing the Relationship With Employment Propensity
There is significant research demonstrating the labour market disadvantage experienced by the disabled community. Yet, relationships between wider ill-health concepts and employment are poorly investigated. This article presents an empirical investigation into the impacts of poor mental and physical health on the propensity to be employed. The results indicate that activity-limiting physical health and accomplishment-limiting mental health issues…
Environmental Kuznets curves: Mess or meaning
There may be relationship between output and environmental degradation. The shape of this relationship is proposed to be an inverted ‘U’ shape for a number of pollutants. The purpose of this paper is to review empirical literature on the environmental Kuznets curve and to draw any lessons that might be useful to policy makers. Evidence is tabulated for a wide range of pollutants. In aggregate, there appears to be a relationship between specific e…
Economic Performance in Rural England
Curry N. and Webber D. J. Economic performance in rural England, Regional Studies. Measuring rural economic performance is obscured by the simultaneous use of two spatial platforms: the ‘city-region’ and the ‘rural definition’. The characteristics of these spatial platforms for measuring rural economic performance are explored through plant-level productivity data. In general, English rural districts are less productive, but particularly where th…
Regional productivity differentials in England: Explaining the gap
Voting Patterns, Party Spending and Relative Location in England and Wales
CUTTS D. and WEBBER D.J. Voting patterns, party spending and relative location in England and Wales, Regional Studies. There is growing evidence that context can influence how people make voting decisions, and some of the contexts are spatially defined. Votes are cast in constituencies, but electors in one constituency may be influenced by 'events' in neighbouring constituencies, such as the intensity of party campaigning. By examining the determ…
Business Productivity and Area Productivity in Rural England
Webber D., Curry N. and Plumridge A. Business productivity and area productivity in rural England, Regional Studies. Rural area productivity and rural business productivity measure different things. This paper presents a empirical analysis of labour productivity differentials across the new Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) definition of ‘rural’. Labour productivity is 21% (13%) lower in sparse (less sparse) rural areas c…
Which SMEs Use External Business Advice? A Multivariate Subregional Study
The authors examine factors that influence the propensity of a firm to take up external business support across four large English towns, using random effects nominal probit regression analysis to capture sector heterogeneity. The results suggest a strong positive association between the orientation of the firm towards growth and its propensity to use external business advice. ‘Push’ factors, including the existence of recruitment difficulties, a…
Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View
Regional Factor Price Convergence Across Four Major European Countries
Neo-classical growth models predict that the free movement of goods and factors will result in the spatial convergence of output and an ensuing convergence of factor prices. Based on distribution free statistics, this paper presents an empirical examination of average factor prices for labour across 58 regions of the EU over the period 1980-94. Using methods of concordance and discordance that identify the presence of switching, persistence, stra…
Rising Wage Inequality: The 1980s Experience in Urban Labor Markets
Journal Article Rising Wage Inequality: The 1980s Experience in Urban Labor Markets. Get access By (Thomas) Hyclak. (Kalamazoo, Michigan: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2000*. Pp. x+159. US $33.00 hardback, US $14.00 paperback. ISBN 0 88099 208 5, 0 88099 207 7.) Don J. Webber Don J. Webber School of Economics, University of the West of England, Bristol and Policy Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on:…
Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers
Recent WTO and IMF/World Bank meetings have attracted mass protests and voices of opposition from a wide variety of people. Opposition to trade and globalisation policies come from individuals and groups and is liked to preferences and perceptions. Scepticism about the costs and benefits of globalisation are on the increase and date back long before Ross Perot (a 1993 US presidential candidate) famously voiced his opposition to the reduction of i…
Who's not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U.S. Labor Market
There is a large body of academic literature providing theoretical and empirical explanations for the sources of change in labour markets. Why then should we spend time reading another one? This book is different. Pryor and Schaffer set out to examine all the potential causes of changes in the US labour market and to determine the relative importance of each. The authors modify their data obtained from the Current Population and National Adult Li…
Trade Elasticities for the G‐7 Countrie
Any policy change in currency value should be grounded on analyses of trade elasticities as the impact of any changes in the demand for imports and exports will influence national incomes and/or prices and have repercussions on trade balances. Outcomes of such active international policy can only be predicted with certainty if these trade elasticities are relatively stable over time or if changes in trade elasticities are foreseen. The objective …
Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental health? A panel data analysis
Voting Patterns, Party Spending and Relative Location in England and Wales
CUTTS D. and WEBBER D.J. Voting patterns, party spending and relative location in England and Wales, Regional Studies. There is growing evidence that context can influence how people make voting decisions, and some of the contexts are spatially defined. Votes are cast in constituencies, but electors in one constituency may be influenced by 'events' in neighbouring constituencies, such as the intensity of party campaigning. By examining the determ…
Mental and physical health: Re-Assessing the Relationship With Employment Propensity
There is significant research demonstrating the labour market disadvantage experienced by the disabled community. Yet, relationships between wider ill-health concepts and employment are poorly investigated. This article presents an empirical investigation into the impacts of poor mental and physical health on the propensity to be employed. The results indicate that activity-limiting physical health and accomplishment-limiting mental health issues…
Regional Growth Paths and Resilience: A European Analysis
Research highlighting the differential resilience of economies to shocks opens up the possibility that long-run growth paths are associated with how regions cope with and recover from such shocks. To date, however, there has been limited exploration into whether long-run evolutionary growth paths or trajectories influence regional economic resilience and what types of trajectories might be more associated with resilience. This article explores th…
The Role of Structural Change in European Regional Productivity Growth
O’Leary E. and Webber D. J. The role of structural change in European regional productivity growth, Regional Studies. Recent literature suggests that inter-sectoral structural change has a negligible impact on aggregate productivity growth. Through the application of dynamic shift–share methods, this paper presents a re-examination of this perspective using data for 181 European regions from 1980 to 2007. Results suggest that the effect of the in…
Business Productivity and Area Productivity in Rural England
Webber D., Curry N. and Plumridge A. Business productivity and area productivity in rural England, Regional Studies. Rural area productivity and rural business productivity measure different things. This paper presents a empirical analysis of labour productivity differentials across the new Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) definition of ‘rural’. Labour productivity is 21% (13%) lower in sparse (less sparse) rural areas c…
Regional productivity differentials in England: Explaining the gap
Do city region policies neglect rural areas
A city region established around a smaller city typically has a higher percentage of its region being rural relative to city regions based around larger cities. Appreciation of this observation leads to the realisation that much of the existing literature focuses on city regions based around larger cities with small rural hinterlands. This paper develops a conceptual model outlining linkages within and beyond city regions and identifies that not …
House price affordability, the global financial crisis and the (ir)relevance of mortgage rates
Although house prices and wages are both influenced by distinct factors that shape their own evolutions, they are also intrinsically connected through house price affordability. Further, macroeconomic policies centred around adjustments in the mortgage rate are of prime importance in ensuring that the housing market does not overheat. This study contributes to the understanding of the link between housing market affordability and mortgage rates b…
Economic Performance in Rural England
Curry N. and Webber D. J. Economic performance in rural England, Regional Studies. Measuring rural economic performance is obscured by the simultaneous use of two spatial platforms: the ‘city-region’ and the ‘rural definition’. The characteristics of these spatial platforms for measuring rural economic performance are explored through plant-level productivity data. In general, English rural districts are less productive, but particularly where th…
Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers
Recent WTO and IMF/World Bank meetings have attracted mass protests and voices of opposition from a wide variety of people. Opposition to trade and globalisation policies come from individuals and groups and is liked to preferences and perceptions. Scepticism about the costs and benefits of globalisation are on the increase and date back long before Ross Perot (a 1993 US presidential candidate) famously voiced his opposition to the reduction of i…
Achieving wider impact in business and management: Analysing the case studies from REF 2014
Universities, across the globe, are increasingly judged on social and economic impact. An important initiative in the UK is the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, which assessed the wider impact of university research. The Impact Case Studies, produced for REF 2014, provide a rich new source of information to explore the wider impact of Business and Management (B&M) research. Each B&M case study, from a structured sample of 194, was read a…
Which SMEs Use External Business Advice? A Multivariate Subregional Study
The authors examine factors that influence the propensity of a firm to take up external business support across four large English towns, using random effects nominal probit regression analysis to capture sector heterogeneity. The results suggest a strong positive association between the orientation of the firm towards growth and its propensity to use external business advice. ‘Push’ factors, including the existence of recruitment difficulties, a…
Regional Factor Price Convergence Across Four Major European Countries
Neo-classical growth models predict that the free movement of goods and factors will result in the spatial convergence of output and an ensuing convergence of factor prices. Based on distribution free statistics, this paper presents an empirical examination of average factor prices for labour across 58 regions of the EU over the period 1980-94. Using methods of concordance and discordance that identify the presence of switching, persistence, stra…
Who's not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U.S. Labor Market
There is a large body of academic literature providing theoretical and empirical explanations for the sources of change in labour markets. Why then should we spend time reading another one? This book is different. Pryor and Schaffer set out to examine all the potential causes of changes in the US labour market and to determine the relative importance of each. The authors modify their data obtained from the Current Population and National Adult Li…
Who's not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U.S. Labor Market
There is a large body of academic literature providing theoretical and empirical explanations for the sources of change in labour markets. Why then should we spend time reading another one? This book is different. Pryor and Schaffer set out to examine all the potential causes of changes in the US labour market and to determine the relative importance of each. The authors modify their data obtained from the Current Population and National Adult Li…
Trade Elasticities for the G‐7 Countrie
Any policy change in currency value should be grounded on analyses of trade elasticities as the impact of any changes in the demand for imports and exports will influence national incomes and/or prices and have repercussions on trade balances. Outcomes of such active international policy can only be predicted with certainty if these trade elasticities are relatively stable over time or if changes in trade elasticities are foreseen. The objective …
Regional Factor Price Convergence Across Four Major European Countries
Neo-classical growth models predict that the free movement of goods and factors will result in the spatial convergence of output and an ensuing convergence of factor prices. Based on distribution free statistics, this paper presents an empirical examination of average factor prices for labour across 58 regions of the EU over the period 1980-94. Using methods of concordance and discordance that identify the presence of switching, persistence, stra…
Rising Wage Inequality: The 1980s Experience in Urban Labor Markets
Journal Article Rising Wage Inequality: The 1980s Experience in Urban Labor Markets. Get access By (Thomas) Hyclak. (Kalamazoo, Michigan: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2000*. Pp. x+159. US $33.00 hardback, US $14.00 paperback. ISBN 0 88099 208 5, 0 88099 207 7.) Don J. Webber Don J. Webber School of Economics, University of the West of England, Bristol and Policy Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on:…
Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers
Recent WTO and IMF/World Bank meetings have attracted mass protests and voices of opposition from a wide variety of people. Opposition to trade and globalisation policies come from individuals and groups and is liked to preferences and perceptions. Scepticism about the costs and benefits of globalisation are on the increase and date back long before Ross Perot (a 1993 US presidential candidate) famously voiced his opposition to the reduction of i…
Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View
Which SMEs Use External Business Advice? A Multivariate Subregional Study
The authors examine factors that influence the propensity of a firm to take up external business support across four large English towns, using random effects nominal probit regression analysis to capture sector heterogeneity. The results suggest a strong positive association between the orientation of the firm towards growth and its propensity to use external business advice. ‘Push’ factors, including the existence of recruitment difficulties, a…
Business Productivity and Area Productivity in Rural England
Webber D., Curry N. and Plumridge A. Business productivity and area productivity in rural England, Regional Studies. Rural area productivity and rural business productivity measure different things. This paper presents a empirical analysis of labour productivity differentials across the new Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) definition of ‘rural’. Labour productivity is 21% (13%) lower in sparse (less sparse) rural areas c…
Regional productivity differentials in England: Explaining the gap
Voting Patterns, Party Spending and Relative Location in England and Wales
CUTTS D. and WEBBER D.J. Voting patterns, party spending and relative location in England and Wales, Regional Studies. There is growing evidence that context can influence how people make voting decisions, and some of the contexts are spatially defined. Votes are cast in constituencies, but electors in one constituency may be influenced by 'events' in neighbouring constituencies, such as the intensity of party campaigning. By examining the determ…
Environmental Kuznets curves: Mess or meaning
There may be relationship between output and environmental degradation. The shape of this relationship is proposed to be an inverted ‘U’ shape for a number of pollutants. The purpose of this paper is to review empirical literature on the environmental Kuznets curve and to draw any lessons that might be useful to policy makers. Evidence is tabulated for a wide range of pollutants. In aggregate, there appears to be a relationship between specific e…
Economic Performance in Rural England
Curry N. and Webber D. J. Economic performance in rural England, Regional Studies. Measuring rural economic performance is obscured by the simultaneous use of two spatial platforms: the ‘city-region’ and the ‘rural definition’. The characteristics of these spatial platforms for measuring rural economic performance are explored through plant-level productivity data. In general, English rural districts are less productive, but particularly where th…
The Role of Structural Change in European Regional Productivity Growth
O’Leary E. and Webber D. J. The role of structural change in European regional productivity growth, Regional Studies. Recent literature suggests that inter-sectoral structural change has a negligible impact on aggregate productivity growth. Through the application of dynamic shift–share methods, this paper presents a re-examination of this perspective using data for 181 European regions from 1980 to 2007. Results suggest that the effect of the in…
Mental and physical health: Re-Assessing the Relationship With Employment Propensity
There is significant research demonstrating the labour market disadvantage experienced by the disabled community. Yet, relationships between wider ill-health concepts and employment are poorly investigated. This article presents an empirical investigation into the impacts of poor mental and physical health on the propensity to be employed. The results indicate that activity-limiting physical health and accomplishment-limiting mental health issues…
A Review of People’s Behavior in and around Floodwater
A study was undertaken to review international literature pertaining to people’s behavior in and around floodwater. The review focused on people’s voluntary entry of floodwater. From the literature, five predominant reasons for entering floodwater were identified, including undertaking a recreational activity; attempting to reach a destination; retrieving property, livestock, or pets; undertaking employment duties; and rescuing or assisting with …
Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental health? A panel data analysis
Regional Growth Paths and Resilience: A European Analysis
Research highlighting the differential resilience of economies to shocks opens up the possibility that long-run growth paths are associated with how regions cope with and recover from such shocks. To date, however, there has been limited exploration into whether long-run evolutionary growth paths or trajectories influence regional economic resilience and what types of trajectories might be more associated with resilience. This article explores th…
Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region
Productivity is the preferred measure of firm-level efficiency and perceived to reflect resource use rates. Semi-structured interviews with restaurant managers in a tourism-dominated low productivity rural area reveal that they are motivated to supply products that they believe in and to sustain a quality of life that meets their needs rather than striving to achieve higher productivity. Pricing strategies, managerial objectives and local market …
House price affordability, the global financial crisis and the (ir)relevance of mortgage rates
Although house prices and wages are both influenced by distinct factors that shape their own evolutions, they are also intrinsically connected through house price affordability. Further, macroeconomic policies centred around adjustments in the mortgage rate are of prime importance in ensuring that the housing market does not overheat. This study contributes to the understanding of the link between housing market affordability and mortgage rates b…
Achieving wider impact in business and management: Analysing the case studies from REF 2014
Universities, across the globe, are increasingly judged on social and economic impact. An important initiative in the UK is the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, which assessed the wider impact of university research. The Impact Case Studies, produced for REF 2014, provide a rich new source of information to explore the wider impact of Business and Management (B&M) research. Each B&M case study, from a structured sample of 194, was read a…
Cultural proximity bias in AI-acceptability: The importance of being human
Do city region policies neglect rural areas
A city region established around a smaller city typically has a higher percentage of its region being rural relative to city regions based around larger cities. Appreciation of this observation leads to the realisation that much of the existing literature focuses on city regions based around larger cities with small rural hinterlands. This paper develops a conceptual model outlining linkages within and beyond city regions and identifies that not …
Geographies of feeling stuck behind and populist voting in The Netherlands
Consensus, Diversity and the Wisdom of the Crowd: Predicting Final Rank Positions of the English Premier League
This study assesses the Wisdom of the Crowd premise using a natural experiment. We collected primary data relating to predictions of the final football club rank positions in the English Premier League over two consecutive seasons using an innovative game and compared these predictions with predictions made by sporting pundits, football blogs and inferred from betting odds. Our results question the Wisdom of the Crowd premise, and we show that sc…
Economics (20 works) · Political science (12 works) · Geography (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Econometrics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Productivity (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Business (4 works)