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Wage Growth Predicts Productivity Growth

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Oct 04, 2018
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Tip of the hat to Ted Fertik for bringing Servaas Storm's unpacking of total-factor-productivity growth (TFP) to my attention. Storm shows that TFP can be regarded mechanically as a weighted sum of the growth rates of labor and capital productivity, roughly in a 3:1 ratio in that order. TFP, of course, is a measure of our ignorance. It nudges us to look…

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