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June 2002

Comparing 50 years of labor productivity in U.S. and foreign manufacturing

Aaron E. Cobet, Gregory A. Wilson

Although manufacturing labor productivity increased less in the United States than in other G-7 countries over the last 50 years, the growth rate has accelerated in the United States after 1973, while slowing down in the other countries.

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