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June 2010

Effects of imported intermediate inputs on productivity

Lucy P. Eldridge, Michael Harper

A framework for estimating the effects of imported intermediate inputs on U.S. major-sector labor productivity is used together with the Solow multifactor productivity equation to show that private business sector multifactor productivity may have grown about 0.1 percent more slowly than what the BLS published series indicates.

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