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Productivity Gains During Business Cycles: What’s Normal?

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Productivity links the labor force to the economy’s real output, a key position that makes productivity growth one of the most eagerly forecast and analyzed economic statistics. A prime example is the current business cycle, in which the pattern of productivity gains has struck many observers as extraordinary.

07.01.1998EC 7/1/1998

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Schweitzer, Mark E. 1998. “Productivity Gains During Business Cycles: What’s Normal?” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Commentary 7/1/1998.

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