Productivity in industry and government, 1973-92.

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: August 1, 1994| Author: Jablonski, Mary | Copyright information

The productivity of workers in the nonfarm business sector of the U.S. economy jumped by 3.0 percent in 1992. Indeed, productivity growth in the nonfarm business sector was so widespread that 80 percent of industries with available data increased productivity in 1992, according to recently released productivity measures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

These numbers reflect a substantial improvement in productivity growth compared with the previous year. In 1991, lab...

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