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Article: Productivity in industry and government, 1989.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1991
- Author:
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Productivity, as measured by output per employee hour, increased in 1989 in about 60 percent of the industries for which data are currently available. By comparison, in 1988, more than 75 percent of these same industries posted gains in productivity. In 1989, most industries that experienced productivity increases also showed gains in output. Similarly, for those industries with negative or no productivity growth, most showed declines in output.
This article includes indexes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry and government productivity measurement program and extends labor productivity measures through the year 1989; industry multifactor ...