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The Allocation of Talent over the Business Cycle and its Effect on Sectoral Productivity

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  • Michael Boehm
  • Martin Watzinger
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    It is well documented that graduates enter different occupations in recessions than in booms. In this article, we examine the impact of this reallocation for long-term productivity and output across sectors. We develop a model in which talent flows to stable sectors in recessions and to cyclical sectors in booms. We find evidence for the predicted change in productivity caused by the business cycle in a setting where output can be readily measured: economists starting or graduating from their PhD in a recession are significantly more productive over the long term than economists starting or graduating in a boom.

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    Paper provided by Centre for Economic Performance, LSE in its series CEP Discussion Papers with number dp1143.

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    Date of creation: May 2012
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    Keywords: Talent allocation; sectoral productivity; business cycle; roy model; PhDeconomists;

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    1. Borjas, George J. & Doran, Kirk B., 2012. "The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians," Working Paper Series rwp12-004, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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