According to unpublished data compiled by BLS, productivity in the construction industry reached a peak in 1968 and … this productivity decline between 1968 and 1978 by estimating a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 …

industry, we revisit the construction produc-tivity puzzle by analyzing the construction value chains of 12 European countries … productivity con-tributions to the construction industry and the rest of the value chain, and show that the traditional focus on … other industries, and the productivi-ty growth in the construction value chains has, for the most part, been seen in them …