instead to demand factors as the main force behind the strong positive comovement between output and labor input measures …

positive technology shock, and (c) measured productivity increases temporarily in response to a positive demand shock. More …Using data for the G7 countries, I estimate conditional correlations of employment and productivity, based on a …) technology shocks appear to induce a negative comovement between productivity and employment, counterbalanced by a positive …

. We consider the following shocks: technological change, a demand shift, bad management, and three kinds of international … protection. Demand for import protection increases significantly in all cases, except for the “bad management” shock. Trade … shocks generate more demand for protectionism, and among trade shocks, outsourcing to a developing country elicits greater …

This paper examines the effect of technological change and other factors on the relative demand for workers with … different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is … U.S. labor market in each decade since 1940 and from 1990 to 1995. The results suggest that the relative demand for …

productivity growth indexes for industrial sectors in the 1960's and 1970's the study explores effects of differential pace of … sectors whose productivity grew faster in preceding years. The growth of sectoral capital intensity produces similar effects …