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June, 2001, Vol. 124, No. 6

Multifactor productivity trends in manufacturing industries, 1987–96

Ziaul Z. Ahmed and Patricia S. Wilder
Economists, Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Over the 1987–96 period, multifactor productivity—measured as output per unit of combined inputs—increased  in manufacturing as a whole and in most of the 108 published three-digit industries within manufacturing; within the three-digit industries, however, there was wide dispersion in the growth rates

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