NEW YORK: After fresh evidence last Friday of dramatically weak job creation, economists suspect productivity gains are yet again accounting for the bulk of US economic growth.
As economists, politicians and around eight million unemployed Americans wait for the labour market to show a solid rebound, it once again seems that efficiency gains are coming at the expense of new jobs.
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