• Title of article

    Productivityandunemploymentoverthebusinesscycle

  • Author/Authors

    Regis Barnichon، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    13
  • From page
    1013
  • To page
    1025
  • Abstract
    The lowcorrelationbetweencyclicalunemploymentandproductivityoverthepost- war periodhidesalargesignswitchinthemid-1980s:fromsignificantlynegativethe correlationbecamesignificantlypositive.Usingasearchmodelofunemploymentwith nominalrigiditiesandvariablelaboreffort,Ishowthattechnologyshockscangenerate a positiveunemployment-productivitycorrelationwhereasnon-technologyshocks (i.e. aggregatedemandshocks)tendtodotheopposite.Inthiscontext,Iidentifytwo eventsthatcanquantitativelyexplaintheincreaseinthecorrelation:(i)asharpdropin the volatilityofnon-technologyshocksinthemid-1980s,and(ii)adeclineinthe responseofproductivitytonon-technologyshocks,whichfromprocyclicalbecame acyclicalinthelast25years
  • Journal title
    Journal of Monetary Economics
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Journal of Monetary Economics
  • Record number

    846445