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Research on Productivity and the Productivity Gap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

R.C.O. Matthews
R.C.O. Matthews*
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Clare College and Political Economy, Cambridge
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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 124 , May 1988, pp. 66 - 72
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Copyright © 1988 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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