Changing productivity trends.

FRBSF Economic Letter | August 31, 2007| | Copyright

As important as productivity growth is to the health of the economy, much remains to be understood about how and why its trend growth rate changes. This Economic Letter discusses some of the points of debate in the research on these issues.

The data and some early explanations

Figure 1 plots productivity growth over the last 50 years based on calculations by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of multifactor productivity (MFP) for the nonfarm business sector, which "... measures the changes in output per unit of combined inputs." Like most other such constructs, ...

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