Productivity in industrial inorganic chemicals.
Part of a special section on trends in labor productivity in four industries. Productivity in the inorganic chemicals industry remained virtually unchanged between 1972 and 1986, compared with an average annual rate of increase of 2.7 percent for manufacturing as a whole. Neither the output of the...
| Publicado en: | Monthly Labor Review Vol. 111; pp. 33 - 41 |
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US Department of Labor
March 1988
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| Sumario: | Part of a special section on trends in labor productivity in four industries. Productivity in the inorganic chemicals industry remained virtually unchanged between 1972 and 1986, compared with an average annual rate of increase of 2.7 percent for manufacturing as a whole. Neither the output of the inorganic chemicals industry nor employee hours registered significant changes over the period. Certain industry components registered significant gains. Alkali manufacture, for example, showed a 3.2 percent gain in productivity as a result of a decline in employee hours. Productivity gains for the industry as a whole were retarded by slack demand and incomplete exploitation of economies of scale. |
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