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Show Real Wage Increase Means Productivity Underlying all gains in real wages are the increases in. productivity produc-tivity we Americans have been able to make year after year. This rise in output-per-man, it's estimated, has averaged about 2 Ms per cent a year in the manufacturing manufactur-ing industries during the past half century, due to improved machines mach-ines and better use of them by workers. And real wages not just dollar dol-lar wages can keep going up so long as we can keep increasing our production-per-employee. |