The Relationship Between Total Output and Man-Hour Output in American Manufacturing Industry

Henry M. Oliver

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1941, vol. 55, issue 2, 239-254

Abstract: Introduction: the problem, 239. — I. Data and methods used, 240.— The findings: for groups of industries, 244; for specific industries, 244; for different periods, 245. — Evidence from comparisons of a less formal sort, 246. — II. Calculations based upon indices of man-hour output not precise, 247. — III. Errors due to failure to distinguish between directly and indirectly productive labor, 249. — IV. Summary of conclusions, 252.

Date: 1941
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