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JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Volume 2, Issue 2-3, Pages 361-371Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1162/154247604323068050
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This paper contributes to the debate initiated by Gali in 1999. I provide a theory with capital income taxation, labor hoarding as well as long-run shifts in the social attitudes to the workplace-modelled as leisure at the workplace-to argue that there are other shocks that may influence labor productivity in the long run. I introduce medium-run identification and show it to be superior to long-run identification or standard short-run identification, when applied to artificial data. With U.S. data and medium-run identification, I find the robust result that technology shocks lead to a hump-shaped response of total hours worked, which is mildly positive following a near-zero initial response. (JEL: E32, E24, C32, C15)
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