Output Growth, the Real Wage, and Employment Fluctuations.

S-Tier
Journal: American Economic Review
Year: 1991
Volume: 81
Issue: 5
Pages: 1215-37

Authors (2)

Hercowitz, Zvi (Tel Aviv University) Sampson, Michael (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

4.022 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 4.0x S-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to contribute to the integration of business-cycle analysis with long-term growth. A real-business-cycle model with endogenous growth is developed and estimated with U.S. data. In the present framework, wage movements do not have to be transitory to generate fluctuations in labor effort. The reduced form is a constrained bivariate output/hours (or real-wage/hours) vector autoregressive process. The bivariate setup provides a useful framework for analyzing the persistence of output fluctuations, given that the theory implies that hours of work contain information about future output movement. Copyright 1991 by American Economic Association.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:aea:aecrev:v:81:y:1991:i:5:p:1215-37
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25