Excess Labor and the Business Cycle

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Ray C. Fair

Yale University - Cowles Foundation; Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance

Date Written: March 1984

Abstract

This paper compares the Medoff-Fay estimates of labor hoarding during troughs, which are based on data from manufacturing plants, with aggregate estimates of excess labor on hand.The two sets of estimates seem consistent, which provides a strong argument in favor of the excess labor hypothesis. This is one of the few examples in macroeconomics where a hypothesis has been so strongly confirmed using detailed micro data.

Suggested Citation

Fair, Ray C., Excess Labor and the Business Cycle (March 1984). NBER Working Paper No. w1292, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=321335

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