Do technology shocks drive hours up or down? A little evidence from an agnostic procedure

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 478-488

  Pesavento, Elena ^a   Rossi, Barbara ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hours Worked; Positive Productivity; Technology Shocks

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844504355     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100505040356     Document Type: Article

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