positive technology shock, and (c) measured productivity increases temporarily in response to a positive demand shock. More …Using data for the G7 countries, I estimate conditional correlations of employment and productivity, based on a …) technology shocks appear to induce a negative comovement between productivity and employment, counterbalanced by a positive …

", as proxied by productivity growth shocks - in line with the Real Business Cycle framework -, and we provide empirical … evidence of a "demand granularity", based on investment growth shocks instead. The role of demand in explaining aggregate …