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In brief... Is technology to blame for jobless recoveries?

Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels


Since the early 1990s, the United States has been plagued by weak employment growth when emerging from recessions ? so-called `jobless recoveries?. Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels look at multiple recoveries elsewhere in the world over a 40-year period to see if the same applies ? and whether modern technology is responsible.


1 March 2017     Paper Number CEPCP496

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