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Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations?

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  • Gali, J.

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Using data for the G7 countries, I estimate conditional correlations of employment and productivity, based on a decomposition of the two series into technology and non-technology components.

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Paper provided by C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University in its series Working Papers with number 96-28.

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Length: 24 pages
Date of creation: 1996
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Keywords: TECHNOLOGY; EMPLOYMENT; BUSINESS CYCLES;

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  • E20 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
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  • E30 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
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