Procyclical Productivity in Manufacturing

Lucas Navarro and Raimundo Soto

Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía, 2006, vol. 43, issue 127, 193-220

Abstract: We study the cyclical behavior of labor productivity in eighty industries of the Chilean manufacturing sector in the 1979-2001 period. We find that labor productivity at the sector level is procyclical but it is a-cyclical when using aggregate data. We pr

Keywords: Productivity; procyclical; manufacturing; aggregation bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 E32 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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