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Re: Those questionable productivity numbers

Peter Dorman wrote:

Has Dean Baker or anyone else done a detailed analysis of the impact of
"quality" adjustments to the last few years' productivity and output data?
It would be nice to have some sensitivity analysis...


Robert Gordon touches on this in his series of papers on
productivity. See
<http://faculty-web.at.nwu.edu/economics/gordon/researchhome.html>
for the latest. The NIPA revisions, which include these quality
adjustments, have changed the conclusions of his June 1999 paper
somewhat.

Doug


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