Quarterly Review 1621

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The Labor Market in Real Business Cycle Theory
Gary D. Hansen
Randall Wright - Consultant
Spring 1992

Abstract

The standard real business cycle model fails to adequately account for two facts found in the U.S. data: the fact that hours worked fluctuate considerably more than productivity and the fact that the correlation between hours worked and productivity is close to zero. In this paper, in a unified framework, the authors describe and analyze four extensions of the standard model, by introducing nonseparable leisure, indivisible labor, government spending, and household production.

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