Economic fluctuations are periodic lows and highs in measures of economic activity, such as unemployment and inflation. These fluctuations affect wages, consumer demand, and the prices of raw ...

Conventional analyses of cyclical fluctuations in the labor market ascribe a minor role to the labor force participation margin. In contrast, a flows-based decomposition of the variation in labor ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Previous business cycle models have made the assumption that all the variation in the labor input is either due to changes in hours per worker ...

Health-care companies slipped as traders rotated to more cyclical sectors. Another wave of deals in which Big Pharma companies are snapping up smaller biotechnology rivals has lifted the health-care ...