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Volume Title: New Developments in Productivity Measurement

Volume Author/Editor: John W. Kendrick and Beatrice N. Vaccara, eds.
Volume Publisher: UMI
Volume ISBN: 0-226-43080-4
Volume URL: http://www.nber.org/books/kend80-1
Publication Date: 1980
Chapter Title: A Study of High and Low "Labor Productivity" Establishments in U.S.Manufacturing
Chapter Author: Benjamin Klotz, Rey Madoo, Reed Hansen
Chapter URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c3914
Chapter pages in book: (p. 239 - 292)








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