Born to be Unemployed: Unemployment and Wages over the Business Cycle

Yona Rubinstein and Daniel Tsiddon

Working Papers from Tel Aviv

Abstract: This work decomposes the human capital bundle into two characteristics: "knowledge", associated with one's own education ane experience, and "general skills", associated with parent's education. Using this decomposition we provide a new set of observations on the cyclicability ofboth wages and employment.

Keywords: HUMAN CAPITAL; EMPLOYMENT; WAGES; BUSINESS CYCLES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 J31 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 pages
Date: 1999
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