Measures of per capita hours and their implications for the technology-hours debate

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1071-1097

  Francis, Neville ^a   Ramey, Valerie A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Demographic shifts; Technology shocks

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949116286     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2009.00247.x     Document Type: Article

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