The labor market effects of technology shocks

Fabio Canova, David Lopez-Salido and Claudio Michelacci ()

No 719, Working Papers from Banco de España

Abstract: We analyze the effects of neutral and investment-specific technology shocks on hours worked and unemployment. We characterize the response of unemployment in terms of job separation and job finding rates. We find that job separation rates mainly account for the impact response of unemployment while job finding rates for movements along its adjustment path. Neutral shocks increase unemployment and explain a substantial portion of unemployment and output volatility; investment-specific shocks expand employment and hours worked and mostly contribute to hours worked volatility. We show that this evidence is consistent with the view that neutral technological progress prompts Schumpeterian creative destruction, while investment specific technological progress has standard neoclassical features.

Keywords: search frictions; technological progress; creative destruction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E00 J60 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 68 pages
Date: 2007-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-dge, nep-lab, nep-mac and nep-tid
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Working Paper: The Labour Market Effects of Technology Shocks (2007)
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