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Productivity growth in ‘high-tech' manufacturing industries
Christopher Kask Edward Sieber
Economist, Formerly with the Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Among manufacturing industries employing a substantial proportion of research and development and technology-oriented workers, the information technology industries exhibited particularly strong productivity growth over the 1987–99 period.
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