Rising Labor Productivity during the 2008-9 Recession

Casey B. Mulligan

NBER Working Paper No. 17584
Issued in November 2011

---- Acknowledgements -----

I appreciate several conversations with Lee Ohanian and Rob Shimer, and the comments of Gary Becker, Emir Kamenica, Kevin Murphy, Marcus Nunes, and Jesse Shapiro and participants at the Money and Banking Workshop at the University of Chicago. I also appreciate the financial support of the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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