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Article: Multifactor productivity: refrigeration and heating equipment industry. (analysis and statistics for 1967-94)(includes a bibliography and an appendix on measurement methods)
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
- Author:
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Multifactor productivity gains averaged 1.5 percent per year over the 1967-94 period; to comply with Federal legislation, the industry shifted from chlorofluorocarbons, an important input in the production process, to environmentally safer substitutes
Multifactor productivity in the refrigeration and heating equipment industry increased at an average annual rate of 1.5 percent over the 1967-94 period.(1) This industry's output includes air conditioners, refrigeration equipment and systems, electric heat pumps, furnaces, refrigerated display cases, soda fountains, beer dispensers, and snowmaking machinery. Multifactor productivity is a measure used to analyze the ...