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Shiftwork, Capital Hours and Productivity Change

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  1. Murray F. Foss

    1. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Part One

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Two Views of Capital Hours

      • Murray F. Foss
      Pages 3-57

    3. Continuous Process, Data, and a Research Agenda

      • Murray F. Foss
      Pages 59-83

  3. Part Two

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Section 1

      1. Section 1
        • Murray F. Foss
        Pages 87-109

    3. Changes in the Workweek of Fixed Capital: U.S. Manufacturing, 1929 to 1976

      1. Section 2
        • Murray F. Foss
        Pages 111-127
      2. Changes in the Plant Workweek from 1929 to 1976 and their Relation to Key Ratios
        • Murray F. Foss
        Pages 129-151
      3. Reasons for Changes in Average Weekly Plant Hours from 1929 to 1976
        • Murray F. Foss
        Pages 153-170
      4. Concluding Remarks
        • Murray F. Foss
        Pages 171-227

    4. Changing Utilization of Fixed Capital: An Element in Long-Term Growth

      1. Section 3
        • Murray F. Foss
        Pages 229-268
      2. Estimating Average Weekly Plant Hours in Manufacturing for the Period between 1929 and 1976
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        Pages 269-284
      3. Evaluating the Manufacturing Results for Interim Years
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        Pages 285-308
      4. Nonmanufacturing Industries
        • Murray F. Foss
        Pages 309-329
      5. Office Equipment and Computers
        • Murray F. Foss
        Pages 331-366

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 391-399
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About this book

This volume brings together and expands on a body of research that I began in the early 1960s and have continued up to the present. It deals mainly with shiftwork-work that is performed during other than normal daytime hours. Shiftwork is a characteristic of economic life in the United States and abroad that has increased in importance over the years; according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, one out of five full-time and part-time employees in the United States works on shifts. My interest in this field concerns fixed capital, specifically, changes in weekly hours worked by capital over long periods of time, and the signifi­ cance of those changes in the measurement oflong-run productivity change. In studies of growth, the measurement of capital input-by capital stocks or the services yielded by those stocks-typically makes no allowance for the changing hours worked by capital. Capital services are assumed to be propor­ tional to the stocks. Consequently, in analyses of output growth in a growth­ accounting framework, the effect of longer capital hours is a component of multifactor or total factor productivity growth.

Authors and Affiliations

  • American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, USA

    Murray F. Foss

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Shiftwork, Capital Hours and Productivity Change

  • Authors: Murray F. Foss

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6201-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9955-1Published: 30 June 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7843-3Published: 11 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-6201-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 399

  • Topics: Labor Economics, Economic Growth, Microeconomics

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