A view on the long - run evolution of hours worked and labor productivity in Switzerland ( 1950 - 2010 )
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The discussion about the long-run evolution of labor productivity in Switzerland is awed because the available data on the input of labor is incoherent and incomplete. It is the aim of this paper to establish a consistent aggregate series of total hours worked covering 195
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