The curious death of manufacturing productivity: A case of counting in the wrong place?

Published on October 6, 2025

Chad Syverson, the George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at Booth, in combination with co-authors, explores why manufacturing labor productivity has appeared to slow down, how it can be accounted for, and a common oversight that might lead to better insight to the industry.

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