Reference : Unwrapping some euro area growth puzzles: Factor substitution, productivity and unemp...
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http://hdl.handle.net/10993/27867
Unwrapping some euro area growth puzzles: Factor substitution, productivity and unemployment
English
Klump, Rainer mailto [University of Luxembourg > Rectorate > Rectorate]
McAdam, Peter [European Cent Bank, DG Res, Frankfurt, Germany.]
Willman, Alpo [Univ Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.]
2008
JOURNAL OF MACROECONOMICS
Louisiana State Univ Pr
30
2
645-666
Yes (verified by ORBilu)
0164-0704
Baton Rouge
[en] CES production function ; elasticity of substitution ; factor-augmenting technical progress ; IT revolution ; Okun's law ; US ; euro area
[en] In this paper, we estimate a long run supply-side system incorporating a CES production function with time-varying factor-augmenting technical progress for the euro area over the period 1970-2005. We find that the elasticity of substitution lies below unity at 0.7, that labor-augmenting technical progress is dominant in the long run while capital-augmenting technical progress plays an important role in the interim period. Importantly, we also find evidence of a structural break in the pattern of biased technical progress towards the end of the 1990s. Our results help to solve two puzzles in Europe's recent growth experience which differ markedly from the US experience. The first is related to the effects of the IT boom in the 1990s on productivity growth in Europe. The second puzzle concerns the changes in the "Okun's law" relationship, linking growth to the reduction of unemployment, which are observable in Europe since the late 1990s. (C) 2007 Published by Elsevier Inc.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/27867
10.1016/j.jmacro.2007.06.005

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