Trends in Hours, Balanced Growth and the Role of Technology in the Business Cycle

Jordi Gali ()

No 4915, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: The present paper revisits a property embedded in most dynamic macroeconomic models: the stationarity of hours worked. First, I argue that, contrary to what is often believed, there are many reasons why hours could be non-stationary in those models, while preserving the property of balanced growth. Second, I show that the post-war evidence for most industrialized economies is clearly at odds with the assumption of stationary hours per capita. Third, I examine the implications of that evidence for the role of technology as a source of economic fluctuations in the G7 countries.

Keywords: non-stationary hours; real business cycles; technology shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-lab and nep-mac
Date: 2005-02
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