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Enrico Marelli , Marcello Signorelli and Joanna Tyrowicz

Crises and Joint Employment-Productivity Dynamics: A Comparative Perspective for European Countries. Enrico Marelli , Marcello Signorelli and Joanna Tyrowicz. Motivation. Motivation. B usiness cycle theory: any change in labor usage can be decomposed into

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Enrico Marelli , Marcello Signorelli and Joanna Tyrowicz

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  1. Crises and Joint Employment-Productivity Dynamics: A Comparative Perspective for European Countries Enrico Marelli, Marcello Signorelli and JoannaTyrowicz

  2. Motivation

  3. Motivation • Businesscycle theory: • any change in labor usage can be decomposed into • a movement along a marginal productivity schedule • and a shift of the schedule • Mulligan (2009) decomposes this differential for the current crisis and compares to the previous ones

  4. Intuition • At the „hip” of the cycletwothingscoincide: • high demand for products • high demand for labour and high labourproductivity • Just after the „hip” demand no longerincreases => adjustmentsnecessary • either on labourdemand with unchangeddemand/productivityschedules • or on productivity – upwardshift of the demand/productivityschedules • Overlongerhorizon • adjustment of type (a) leads to permamentreduction in employment (tillnextpositivedemandshock) • adjustment of type (b) impliesgrowinglabourproductivity => efficiency and TFP

  5. Outline • Method • Data • Findings • Conclusions

  6. Method • Have to find a „hip” in the cycle… • … anchor on the „hip” the changes in productivity and employment • how to measureproductivity? • how to measureemployment? • At the end we expectrathercoherent: • shifts OF the demand/productivityschedules and • shifts ALONG the demand/productivityschedules • We do that for EU countries for as manycountries as thereis data

  7. Method – step by step • Identify the boom and the bust • Findpeak and anchorthere • Computecummulatedchange of labouruse and productivity • Graphthem one against the other • Repeat for allcountries for allcycles

  8. Method – 1. finding the hip • Short term and long term fluctuations - HP filter • Afterfilteringaway the trend – identifypeaks Second Third First ?

  9. Method – 2. measuringproductivity and employment • Employment • Ideally: hoursworked in economy • Reality: not available for any of the EU countries • Working/employed/FTE – hugedifferences • Eventually: working, no FTE • Labourproductivity: • Essentially: output per hourworked • Reality: no output (GDP) no hoursworked (heads) • Eventually: GDP/working

  10. Method – 3. link labourproductivity and employment • Refresh Mulligan • Nice RBC-coherentpattern • In reality for Europeaneconomies? ???

  11. Data

  12. Results - identified „hips”

  13. Results – identified „hips”

  14. Results – identified „hips”

  15. Results– groups of countries • Analysis revealsfewadjustmentpatterns in the lastcrisis • (a) a canonical RBC; • (b) reduced (or absent) change in employment and reductions in productivity; • (c) a contemporaneous reduction in both productivity and employment (profoundrecession); • (d) a growth or preservation of both employment and productivity. • Thesereactionsare not like in the past.

  16. Group 1 – RBC consistent • Note: solid black line (late 2000s); dashed black line (late 1990s for Hungary and early 1990s for Spain)

  17. Group 2 – eventually RBC consistent

  18. Group 3 – productivity drop

  19. Group 4 – both drop

  20. Group 5 – allquiet

  21. Conclusions • We applied simpletool to seeifrecentcrisisis RBC type in Europe • We alsocompareit to previouscrises • Many of the past were RBC in nature • Now – onlyfewcountrieshave „adjustment” patterns as economistswouldlikeit • Policies to stop employmentadjustmentat the expense of productivity • Somecountries „on the safeside” evenif GDP contracts • Somecountries in deeprecession

  22. Thankyou for yourattention!

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