Business cycle fluctuations and the life cycle
Subtitle: how important is on-the-job skill accumulation?
By: Gary D. Hansen, Selo Imrohoroglu
Contributors: Imrohoroglu, Selo; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13603; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13603.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
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Description: "We study the effects of on-the-job skill accumulation on average hours worked by age and the volatility of hours over the life cycle in a calibrated general equilibrium model.  Two forms of skill accumulation are considered: learning by doing and on-the-job training.  In our economy with learning by doing, individuals supply more labor early in the life cycle and less as they approach retirement than they do in an economy without this feature.  The impact of this feature on the volatility of hours over the life cycle depends on the value of the intertemporal elasticity of labor supply.  When individuals accumulate skills by on-the-job training, there are only weak effects on both the steady-state labor supply and its volatility over the life cycle"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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