Challenges to Mismeasurement Explanations for the US Productivity Slowdown
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- Chad Syverson, 2016. "Challenges to Mismeasurement Explanations for the U.S. Productivity Slowdown," NBER Working Papers 21974, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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