The Largest Contributor to Increases in the Productivity of American

question 199

Multiple Choice

The largest contributor to increases in the productivity of American labor is

• A) the reallocation of labor from agriculture to manufacturing.
• B) improvements in labor quality.
• C) increases in the quantity of capital.
• D) technological advance.

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