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March 1986

Beauty and barber shops: the trend of labor productivity

Horst Brand, Ziaul Z. Ahmed

Output per hour of persons employed in these shops rose at an annual rate of 0.8 percent between 1972 and 1984, in line with the productivity trend for other personal service industries.

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