Navarro, Lucas; Soto, Raimundo - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 43 (2006) 127, pp. 193-220
We study the cyclical behavior of labor productivity in eighty industries of the Chilean manufacturing sector in the 1979-2001 period. We find that labor productivity at the sector level is procyclical but it is a-cyclical when using aggregate data. We pr