Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82490 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 161
Publisher: 
Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm
Abstract: 
Recent work on the effects of permanent technology shocks argue that the basic RBC model cannot account for a negative correlation between hours worked and labor productivity. In this paper, I show that this conjecture is not necessarily correct. In the basic RBC model, I find that hours worked fall and labor productivity rises after a positive permanent technology shock once one allows for the possibility that the process for the permanent technology shock is slightly persistent in growth rates. A more serious limitation of the RBC model is its inability to generate a persistent rise in hours worked after a positive permanent technology shock along with a rise in labor productivity that are in line with what the data suggests. These results call for a reconsideration of the real and nominal frictions and policy response that need to be introduced in the basic RBC model in order to improve the model’s ability to match the data.
Subjects: 
permanent technology shocks
hours worked per capita
labor productivity
real business cycle model
vector autoregressions
JEL: 
E24
E32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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