We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker … remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then plummeted after 1970. The productivity boom from … consistent with an extensive series of key facts about the nature of the construction sector. The post-1970 productivity decline …

According to unpublished data compiled by BLS, productivity in the construction industry reached a peak in 1968 and … this productivity decline between 1968 and 1978 by estimating a production function to assign weights to various factors … responsible for productivity change and deriving a new price deflator for construction which does not rely on labor or material …

The 21st century global decline in productivity growth is not well understood. One possible contributor is a decline in … economic dynamism. We explore the contribution of firm formation and employee movement to productivity using administrative … working proprietors, to study the relationships among entry, worker flows and firm productivity. Entrants are more productive …

Aggregate data show a large and decades-long decline in construction sector productivity. This decline in such a large … sector has had a material effect on secular productivity growth for the economy as a whole. Prior work has focused on the … role of potential measurement problems in construction, particularly output deflators in the measurement of productivity …

erosion of the productivity advantage of union contractors, which dropped substantially between 1972 and 1977 and vanished by …

Previous studies using micro data to estimate the impact of unions on productivity in construction in the early 1970's … have found productivity to be higher for union than nonunion contractors in the private sector. The validity of these …-nonunion productivity differences over a sample of retail stores and shopping centers built in the late 1970's. It finds that square footage …