A perspective on the U.S.-Canada manufacturing productivity gap.
The writers discuss the different statistical methods used by the United States and Canada in calculating manufacturing productivity growth. They found that the methods used by the two countries were generally quite similar, and they concluded that a significant proportion of the difference in prod...
| Published in: | Monthly Labor Review Vol. 124; no. 2; pp. 31 - 49 |
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US Department of Labor
February 2001
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