Also some nice productivity graphs here: http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2006/08/does_manufactur.html
BTW, manufacturing is about 16% of USA GDP, what statistics are pertinent to measure productivity of the remaining ~ 80%? Laurent On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 21:31 -0800, Sandwichman wrote: > Maybe not exactly what you have in mind, but you might be interested > in a little book from 1994 called "Labor Statistics and Class > Struggle" in which the author, Marc Linder, reviews the history of > "unit labor costs" in the BLS. Unit labor costs measure how much firms > must pay out in current (nominal) wages per hour to produce a fixed > unit of physical (real) output. Linder presents a graph at the > beginning of the book comparing nominal and real labor costs in > manufacturing, 1947 to 1993. > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I pretty much know what happened over the last 2-3 decades, but what was the > > correlation between productivity and wage growth before the mid seventies? I > > anyone could provide a graph, that would be even more helpful. > > > > Thanks, > > Max > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
