Article: Productivity continued to increase in many industries during 1984. (output per employee hour in steel, coal and iron mining, transportation, and utilities)

Productivity continued to increase in many industries during 1984

Productivity, as measured by output per employee hour, grew in 1984 in about three quarters of the industries for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly publishes data. Productivity increases were large in many industries. In a significant number, these gains followed major productivity growth in 1983. The expansion in industry productivity is consistent with the situation in the nonfarm business sector of the economy in which output per hour increased 1.6 percent between 1983 and 1984, after gaining 3.4 percent in 1982-83. Table 1 shows productivity trends in industries measured by the ...

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