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

Jordi Galí
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No 187, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

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.

Keywords: real business cycles; technology shocks; market frictions; balanced growth path; stationarity of hours (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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