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Labor supply and the business cycle: The “bandwagon worker effect” Martín Román, Ángel Luis Cuéllar Martín, Jaime Moral de Blas, Alfonso The relationship between labour force participation and the business cycle is a common topic in economic literature. However, few studies have examined if the cyclical sensitivity of labour force participation is influenced by social effects. In this paper, we construct a theoretical model defining a relatively new hypothesis, the bandwagon worker effect (BWE). We use spatial econometrics techniques to test the existence of the BWE in the local labour markets in Spain. Our results reveal a positive spatial dependence in the cyclical sensitivity of labour force participation that decreases as we fix a laxer neighbourhood criterion, which verifies the existence of the BWE. 2026-01-14T11:51:18Z 2026-01-14T11:51:18Z 2020 info:eu-repo/semantics/article https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/81503 https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12542 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional