PRODUCTIVITY • May 2019 • Volume 8 / Number 8
Productivity trends in the wired and wireless telecommunications industries
This Beyond the Numbers article will examine the history and sources of labor productivity growth in the telecommunications industries. The article will compare growth rates in other industries, labor productivity trends of wired telecommunications to wireless, and determine the most important services provided by each industry.
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