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

Jordi Gali ()

No 11130, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

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 nonstationary in those models, while preserving the property of balanced growth. Second, I show that the postwar 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.

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Date: 2005-02
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