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STUDY PAPER NO. 21
POSTWAR MOVEMENT OF PRICES AND
WAGES IN MANUFACTURING
INDUSTRIES
BY
HAROLD M. LEvIN50N
AND
SUPPLEMENTARY TECHNICAL MATERIAL
TO THE STAFF REPORT
BY
GEORGE W. BLEILE AND THOMAS A. WILSON
MATERIALS PREPARED IN CONNECTION WITH THE
STUDY OF EMPLOYMENT, GROWTH, AND
PRICE LEVELS
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JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
(Created pursuant to sec. 5(a) of Public Law 304, 79th Cong.)
PAUL H. DOUGLAS, Illinois, Chairman
WRIGHT PATMAN, Texas, Vice chairman
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
RICHARD BOLLING, Missouri
HALE BOGGS, Louisiana
HENRY S. REUSS, Wisconsin
FRANK M. COFFIN, Maine
THOMAS B. CURTIS, Missouri
CLARENCE E. KILBURN, New York
WILLIAM B. WIDNALL, New Jersey
STUDY OF EMPLOYMENT, GROWTH, AND PRICE LEVELS
(Pursuant to S. Con. Res. 13, 86th Cong., 1st sess.)
OTTo ECESTEIN. Technical Director
JOHN W. LEHMAN, Administrative Officer
JAMES W. KNOWLES, Special Economic Gounsel
SENATE
JOHN SPARKMAN, Alabama
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, Arkansas
JOSEPH 0. O'MAHONEY, Wyoming
JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts
PRESCOTT BUSH, Connecticut
JOHN MARSHALL BUTLER, Maryland
JACOB K. JAVITS, New York
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This is part of a series of papers being prepared for con-
sideration by the Joint Economic Committee in connection
with its "Study of Employment, Growth, and Price Levels."
The committee and the committee staff neither approve nor
disapprove of the findings of the individual authors.
in
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LETTERS OF TRANSMITTAL
JANUARY 18, 1960.
To Members of the Joint Economic Committee:
Submitted herewith for the consideration of the members of the
Joint Economic Committee and~others is study paper No. 21, "Postwar
Movement of Prices and Wages in Manufacturing Industries."
This is among the number of subjects which the Joint Economic
Committee requested individual scholars to examine and report
on in connection with the committee's study of "Employment,
Growth, and Price Levels."
The findings are entirely those of the authors, and the committee
and the committee staff indicate neither approval nor disapproval by
this publication.
PAUL H. DOUGLAS,
Chairman, Joint Economic Committee.
JANUARY 12, 1960.
Hon. PAm2 H. DOUGLAS,
Chairman, Joint Economic Committee,
U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR DOUGLAS: Transmitted herewith is one of the
series of papers prepared for the study of "Employment, Growth,
and Price Levels" by outside consultants and members of the staff.
The author of this paper is Harold M. Levinson of the University of
Michigan.
All papers are presented as prepared by the authors.
OTTO ECKSTEIN,
Technical Director,
Study of Employment, Growth, and Price Levels.
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CONTENTS
Page
I. Introduction 1
Sources and limitations
II. Wage movements in the postwar period 2
Wage patterns in the postwar period 7
III. The movement of manufacturing prices 13
Trends in specific manufacturing industries 17
Sources and limitations of data 19
IV. Summary 21
APPENDIXES
Appendix A. Sources of basic data 23
Appendix B. Cross-section correlation matrixes 49
Appendix C. Trends in individual industries relative to all manufacturing 54
TABLES
Table 1. Simple cross-section correlation coefficients between wage changes
and selected variables, 1947-58 3
Table 2. Cross-section regress equations: Wages 4
Table 3. Simple time series correlation coefficients between annual changes
in wages and selected variables, 1947-58 5
Table 4. Time series partial correlation coefficients between annual changes
in wages and employment and profits, 1947-58 6
Table 5. Changes in wages, profit rates, concentration ratios, union
strength, and employment in manufacturing industries, 1947-53 and
1953-58 7
Table 6. Wage-fringe adjustments in selected manufacturing industries,
1946-58 8
Table 7. Basic trends in the steel and automobile industries, 1947-58 -- 11
Table 8. Wholesale price indexes in manufacturing industries, 1947-58~ 14
Table 9. Simple cross-section correlation coefficients between price
changes and selected variables, 1947-58 15
Table 10. Cross-section regression equations: Prices 1 6
Table 11. Simple time series correlation coefficients between annual
changes in prices and selected variables, 1947-58 17
Table 12. Time series partial correlation coefficients between annual
changes in prices, output, and hourly earnings, 1947-58 17
Table 13. Basic trends in all manufacturing, 1947-5.8 18
Table 14. Ratio of indexes in specific industries relative to all manufactur-
ing, 1947-58 20
SUPPLEMENTAL STAFF MATERIAL TO THE STAFF REPORT
Technical Note No. 1-The service section: Data on output, employment,
prices, and income, by George W. Bleile 63
Technical Note No. 2-Productivity and output in the postwar period, by
Thomas A. Wilson 129
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STUDY~PAPER NO. 21
POSTWAR MOVEMENT OF PRICES AND WAGES IN
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
I. INTRODUCTION 1
This study paper is designed primarily to present the underlying
data and the statistical procedures developed as part of the analysis
of the postwar inflation prepared for consideration by the Joint
Economic Committee of the Congress.2 In general, the present
report does not attempt to carry the analysis of the data beyond
that already presented in the staff report; rather, the major purpose
is to make the basic data generally available, and to present the
results of the various statistical procedures which were employed in
analyzing the movement of wages, prices, and profits in manufac-
turing industries from 1947 to 1958.
SOURCES AND LIMITATIONS
In order to evaluate the major factors which might underlie these
movements in the several manufacturing sectors of the economy
during the period since 1947, data for a number of variables were
obtained for each of 19 2-digit Standard Industrial Classifications in
manufacturing. All of these basic series are presented in appendix A,
together with a description of the sources and methodology used. At
this point, however, a number of technical aspects of the data should
be noted.
Of particular importance is the fact that the underlying figures were
gathered by different Government agencies, often utilizing different
sampling techniques and different methods of classification. Thus
the data on earnings and employment were obtained on an establish-
ment basis, with each establishment assigned to a particular industry
on the basis of its principal product, measured in value terms. The
figures for profits, sales, stockholders' equity, and depreciation and
depletion, on the other hand, were obtained by the FTC-SEC on a
corporationwide basis; the data for the entire corporation were then
assigned to the industrial classification on the basis of the corporation's
1 I have received much helpful assistance from several Government agencies in the course of preparing
the present study. In particular, I would like to express my appreciation to Harry Douty and Lily Mary
David of the BLS Division of Wages and Industrial Relations; to Sidney Jaffe, Allan Searle, and Helen
Hald of the BLS Division of Prices and Cost of Living; to Jack Alterman of the BLS Division of Produc-
tivity; to Gladys Miller, Robert Stein, and Sophia Cooper of the BLS Division of Manpower and Em-
ployment; to Hyman Lewis of the BLS Office of Labor Economics; and to Louis Paradiso of the U.S.
Department of Commerce. Thomas Wilson of the staff of the Joint Economic Committee provided es-
tensive help in the statistical computations; and Stanley Heckman and Hamilton Gewehr provided general
assistance throughout.
2 For the general discussion of the postwar Inflation see the "Staff Report on Employment, Growth,
and Price Levels," ch. v. (Government Printing Office, Dec. 24, 1959).
1
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principal product, measured in terms of annual sales volume. And
finally, concentration ratios were computed from data based on the
value of product shipments directly, irrespective of the establishment
or corporation involved.
As a result of these differences in concept and scope, the several
series are not completely comparable. To a substantial degree,
however, the varying bases of classification are probably corrected
by the fact that the 2-digit industry classifications used here are
quite broad; consequently, they would normally embrace both the
primary and the great majority of secondary products produced by
any given establishment. In the case of corporatewide classification,
however, there is a greater possibility that the profits figures will be
overstated or understated. Classification on a product basis directly,
of course, raises no serious issues.
The meaning and limitations on the use of concentration ratios also
deserve some preliminary discussion. In general, concentration ratios
provide a measure of the proportion of the total value of shipments
or of total employment in a particular manufacturing industry which
is accounted for by the largest companies in that industry. As such,
they may provide a rough measure of the extent of competitive pres-
sures existing in the product market, on the presumption that the
larger the proportion of the product value which is sold by the largest
firms, the greater is the "degree of monopoly" involved. There are,
however, important limitations on the use of concentration ratios for
this purpose. On the one hand, such ratios do not reflect the pressure
of competition from substitute products, such as plastics for metals;
nor do they reflect the extent t~ which imports may compete in the
domestic market. As a result, concentration ratios may overstate the
degree of monopoly in a particular situation. On the other hand,
these ratios do not reflect the extent to which the relevant product
market may be regional or local in character, as in the case of goods
having high transportation costs. In these instances, ratios based on
product value shipments for the entire country tend to understate
the effective degree of concentration.3 Nevertheless, concentration
ratios can provide at least a generalframe of reference for evaluating
whether a particular industrial classification is "more" or "less"
competitive.
II. WAGE MOVEMENTS IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD
A number of statistical analyses were carried out relating the per-
centage changes in straight time hourly earnings in the 19 manu-
facturing industries with the movements of several other variables,
including the percentage changes in production worker employment.
output, productivity per production worker man-hour, the level of
profits (as a rate of return on equity), and concentration ratios.
Some of th~ results of a complete year-to-year cross section analysis
are summarized in table 1; in addition, a complete matrix of all pos-
sible simple correlation coefficients is shown in appendix B.4 The
simple coefficients listed in table 1 suggest several important points~
Of considerable interest is the fact that no significant relationship was
`An excellent presentation of these and other limitations on the use of concentration ratios can be found
in "Concentration in American Industry," Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, at pp. 3-6.
All the regressions and correlation coetilcients presented in the following discussion are single equation
east squares estimates. All equations fitted were linear.
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evident between the year-to-year changes in earnings and percentage
changes in output, production worker employment, or productivity
per production worker man-hour. On the other hand, the data indi-
cate a strong interrelationship, particularly after 1951, between hourly
earnings, profit levels, and 1954 concentration ratios. With the ex-
ception of the year 1955-56, earnings and profits were very highly cor-
related; the relationship of earnings to concentration ratios, while
weaker, was still quite marked.
TABLE I .-Simple cross section correlation coefficients between wage changes and
selected variables in 19 manufacturing industries, 1947-58 1
Straight time earnings on- Concentration
ratios on-
Output
Produc- on
Year Produc- tivity Con- profits
tion per pro- Profits Profits centra- before Profits Profits
worker duction Output before after tion taxes before alter
employ- worker taxes taxes ratios taxes taxes
ment man-
hour
1947-48 0.417 -0.248 0. 195 0.012 0. 138 0.226 0.463 -0. 108 0.071
1948-49 -.050 .162 .024 .616 .777 .336 .237 .447 .527
1949-50 -. 563 . 362 -.372 -.087 -. 097 . 033 .654 .307 . 340
1950-51 .171 -.247 .078 .178 .127 .045 .631 .361 .371
1951-52 .087 .118 .039 .598 .707 .283 .491 .458 .463
1952-53 .249 .251 .332 .550 .689 .423 .724 .559 .537
1953-54 . 203 -. 279 -.067 . 628 . 520 . 463 -.059 . 553 . 598
1954-55 .233 .102 .383 .514 .600 .383 .500 .447 .460
1955-56 -. 197 . 354 . 086 . 055 . 146 .428 .259 . 512 . 603
1956-57 .230 .390 .372 .546 .544 .607 .726 .612 .755
1957-58 -.576 .049 -.440 .392 .484 .549 .222 .506 .698
`The 5 percent level of significance is 0.4555. The 1 percent level is 0.5751.
Sources: See apps. A and B.
The use of simple correlation techniques may, however, yield mis-
leading results. In particular, it will be noted in table 1 that profits
were often significantly, though rather sporadically; related to changes
in output. In order to test the relationship between earnings and
profits, after correcting for the effects of changes in output, partial
correlation coefficients were computed for each year. The general
conclusions indicated above were not greatly affected, although the
coefficients fell to somewhat below the 5 percent level of significance
in 1954-55 and 1956-57. The partial correlation coefficients, using
profits before taxes as the profit variable, were as follows:
1947-48 -0. 009 195354 0. 627
1948-49 . 628 1954-55 . 403
1949-50 - 223 1955-56 . 034
1950-51 . 167 1956-57 . 432
1951-52 . 665 1957-58 . 559
1952-53 . 476.
Finally, two multiple cross-section regressions were computed for the
subperiods 1947-53 and 1953-58, relating changes in hourly earnings
to (1) the average level of profits before taxes, (2) the percent change
in production worker employment, and (3) the percent change in out-
put. The results, presented in table 2, were again consistent with the
previous findings. For the earlier period, the partial correlations
coefficients were not significant for any variable; for the years 1953-58,
`The 5 percent level of significance is 0.4683; the 1 percent level Is 0.5897.
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however, the coefficient for profits was significant at well above the 5
percent level, while both employment and output were of virtually no
significance whatever.6
TABLE 2.-Cross-section regression equations: Wages
Independent variable
Regression
coefficient
Partial cor-
relation
coefficient
Beta co-
efficient
Standard
error of beta
coefficient
1947-53:
Average profit rate before taxes
Percent change:
Production worker employment
Output
1953-58:
Average profit rate before taxes
Percent change:
Production worker employment
Output
0. 7430
-. 2345
.1329
1 7498
.0034
-.0526
0. 3028
-. 2009
.1787
1 6590
- 0046
-.1055
0. 4196
-. 4007
.3798
. 6797
0049
-.1139
0. 3409
. 5044
.5398
. 2003
. 2759
.2770
Regression constants:
1947-53
1953-58 7.28
Svlultiple correlation coefficient:
1947-53 R=.4614
1953-58 R 16729
Coefficient of multiple determination:
1947-53 R'~=2129
1953-58 R2=1.4528
Degrees of freedom N-4=15
1 Significant at the 5-percent level.
In addition to these cross-section tests, some time series analyses
were also conducted for each two-digit classification. In view of the
limited number of annual observations available, and the rather sharp
structural readjustments occurring in the economy as a whole during
the immediate postwar and Korean periods, the use of time series is
subject to important limitations; nevertheless, the results were gen-
erally quite consistent with those indicated by the cross-section data.
Table 3 indicates, for each two-digit industry, the simple correla-
tion coefficients between the year-to-year percentage change in
straight-time hourly earnings and the percentage changes in employ-
ment and output; in addition, coefficients are given for the relationship
between earnings and three different measures of profit levels. There
was no important relationship evident with respect to either output
or employment. In the case of profits, however, the correlations were
consistently stronger, particularly for profits before taxes, lagged 1
year. In the latter instance, the correlation coefficients were at a
5-percent level of significance or better in 9 out of 19 industries, in-
cluding 5 which were at a 1-percent level.
I Another bit of corroborative evidence can be found in a similar study of 61 smailer (3-digit) industries
conducted by Conrad. On the basis of both simple and multiple cross-section regression analysis, he found
a "remarkably low degree of relationship" between average annual changes in production workers' wages
and output, employment, and productivity. He did not test for the role of profits. See Alfred H. Conrad,
"The Share of Wages and Salaries in Manufacturing Incomes, 1947-56," Joint Economic Committee Study
of Employment, Growth, and Price Levels, Study Paper No. 9, pp. 149-152.
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TABLE 4.-Time series partial correlation coefficients between annual changes in
wages, employment, and lagged profits, 1947-58 1
*
Jndnstry
Partial correlation 2 of per
cent change in straight-
time hourly earnings on-
Percent Pates of
change in return on
production stockholders'
worker equity before
employment taxes. lagged
1 year
20. Food
21. Tobacco
22. Textiles
23. Apparel
24. Lumber
25. Furniture
26. Paper
27. Printing and publishing
28. Chemicals
29. Petroleum
30. Rubber
31. Leather
32. Stone, clay, and glass
33. PrImary metals-
34. Fabricated metals
35. Machinery, except electrical -
36. Electrical machinery
37. TransportatIon equipment -
38. Instruments
0.398
-450
.675
-.034
.228
.595
.420
- 049
.213
.680
.550
.390
. 385
- 186
- 050
- 386
-.291
. 338
.326
0.834
-.072
.821
.395
-.282
.879
.798
.866
.240
.316
.847
.538
- 182
- 166
. 707
- 692
- 649
-. 393
- 008
I The 5 percent level of significance is 0.6319; the 1 percent level Is 0.7646.
2 These are partial correlation coefficients corresponding to the regression coefficients in the equation
W.=a+SE-f-cP, where W. is the percent cnange in straigrit time hourly earnings, E is the percent change
in production worker employment, and R is the rate of return on stockholders' equity, lagged 1 year.
Unfortunately, no recent data were available to evaluate the possible
relationship between wage changes and union strength. The most
recent study of the extent of union organization in different industries
was made in 1946 ;7 it is probable, however, that the strength of
unionism has not changed greatly in most industries since that time.
In any case, on the basis of the best estimates available, there does
not appear to be any general relationship between union strength and
wage changes. This is suggested by the figures in table 5, in which
industries are ranked in accordance with their percentage increases
in earnings during two major subperiods, together with data on
estimated union strength, average profit levels, concentration ratios,
and production worker employment in those industries. During both
of the periods 1947-53 and 1953-58, the six industries which had the
greatest increases in hourly earnings ranged from quite weakly union-
ized sectors, such as food and chemicals, to such strongly organized
industries as primary metals. Contrariwise, the half dozen industries
with the lowest increases in earnings included apparel, which was
highly organized, as well as textiles and leather at the othcr extreme.
Union strength per se therefore, does not appear to have been an
important factor explaining developments in the wage structure; it
must be stressed, however, that it does not necessarily follow from
this that collective bargaining has not had an effect on the wage level.
For it may be that wages are increased in the more strongly unionized
industries by more than would otherwise be the case, and that other
industries, both union and nonunion, adopt the same "pattern."
Thus the lack of any evident relationship between wage changes and
7 "Extent of Collective Bargaining and Union Recognition, 1946," Monthly Labor Review, May 1947.
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union strength is not sufficient to demonstrate that unionism is purely
a passive factor.
TABLE 5.-Changes in wages, profit rates, concentration ratios, union strength, and
employment in manufacturing industries, 1947-53 and 1953-58
Industry
Percent
change in
straight
time
earnings
Average
profit
rates,
before
taxes
Concentra-
tion ratios
Estimated
union
strength,
percent
Percent
change in
production
worker
employ-
ment
1947-53
49.2
26.0
59. 4
25-SO
5. 2
47.6
19.1
99.1
50-75
1.4
47. 4
22. 8
81. 1
75-100
5. 3
46.0
20. 2
22. 4
25-50
-6. 0
45. 5
26. 2
5.0
50-75
8.8
45.0
23.3
2.3
75-100
7. 2
44. 9
24. 6
69. 9
50-75
17. 7
44. 3
26. 6
57. 9
50-75
4. 1
44.0
24. 4
1. 5
25-50
-10. 6
43. 9
26.3
19.3
50-75
13. 2
43. 8
26. 6
31. 1
75-100
7. 5
42.7
23.9
-
8.1
41. 9
26.0
7.3
25-SO
6. 6
40. 1
33. 1
83.2
75-100
47. 2
38. 6
20. 0
100.0
25-SO
-13. 5
38.2
31.2
72.2
75-100
31.0
37. 5
25. 5
51. 2
75-100
0. 2
31.4
20.3
11.9
0-25
-10.8
31.1
15.5
2.3
25-50
-6.8
18.0
13. 6
5. 7
75-100
7. 1
1953-58
31.2 21.0 81.1 75-100 -21.
28. 7 24.0 100.0 25-50 -15.
26. 7 24. 3 59. 4 25-50 -7.
26.3 19.9 5.0 50-75 -0.
25.2 17. 7 22.4 25-50 -8.
24.9 18.9 19.3 50-75 -14.5
24. 6 20. 9 31. 1 75-100 -20. 2
24. 6 23. 8 69. 9 50-75 -15. 8
24. 3 14. 9 99. 1 50-75 -15. 8
24. 1 24. 6 72. 2 75-100 -18. 9
24. 1 30.7 82. 3 75-100 -27. 1
23.0 22. 7 51. 2 75-100 -15. 6
22. 9 24. 4 57.9 50-75 -9. 2
21.6 20.3 -15.7
18.1 21.6 2.3 75-100 (1.4
16. 1 18. 7 7. 3 25-50 -7. 1
15.9 14.0 1.5 25-50 -20.2
14. 9 15. 6 2. 3 25-50 -8. 4
13. 7 12. 8 5. 7 75-100 -6. 9
9.7 9.2 11.9 ((-25 -22.0
WAGE PATTERNS IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD
The general forces underlying wage changes, as developed in the
preceding section, are also given support by an analysis of the collective
bargaining settlements negotiated in several manufacturing industries,
or in companies generally representative of entire industries, during
the postwar period. These settlements are summarized in table 6 for
each year and for major subperiods. For purposes of analysis, they
are separated into two broad groups according to the general degree
of concentration in the industries involved. In addition, the "key"
bargains are designated for each period.8
8 The term "key" bargain is used here to designate the collective agreement which is widely alleged to
establish a standard, or "pattern," of wage-fringe adjustments which is accepted by other industries or com-
panies as the basis for subsequent agreements. The steel and automobile settlements are usually given this
status because of their size and the strength of the union in them, even though other settlements may, in
point of time, precede them.
Chemicals
Petroleum refining
Primary metals
Food
Paper
Printing
Instruments.
Stone, clay, and glass
Lumber -
Fabricated metals -
Nonelectrical machinery
All manufacturing
Furniture
Transportation equipment
Tobacco
Electrical machinery --
Huhhcr~
Textiles
Leather
Apparel
Primary metals
Tobacco
Chemicals -
Paper
Food
Fabricated metals~
Nonelectrical machinery
Instruments
Petroleum refining
Electrical machinery
Transportation equipment
Rubber
Stone, clay, and glass
All manufacturing
Printing
Furniture
Lumber
Leather
Apparel
Textiles
Sources: See app. A.
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TABLE 6.-Wage-fringe adjustments in selected manufacturing industries, 1946-58
Company or industry
High concentration:
United States Steel (key)
General Motors (key)
International Harvester
Rubber (4 companies)
General Electric
Armour
Aluminum Co. (steelworkers)..
Anaconda Copper
Lockheed Aircraft
Glenn Martin
North American Aviation
Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Pacific Shipbuilding
Sinclair Oil
American Viscose
Low concentration:
Full Fashioned Hosiery
Northern Cotton Textiles
American Woolen
Men's Clothing
Women's Clothing
International Shoe
Massachusetts Shoe
Total settlements, 1946-SO
62½ cents plus noncontributory pensions, plus contributory Insur-
ance.
56 cents plus 6 holidays plus noncontributory pensions, plus con-
tributory Insurance (includes 11-cent automatic increase).
53½ cents plus 6 holidays plus noncontributory pensions, plus con-
tributory insurance (includes 3-cent automatic increase).
52½ cents plus 6 holidays, plus noncontributory pensions, plus con-
tributory insurance.
52 cents plus 7 holidays, plus contributory pensions, plus contribu-
tory Insurance.
55½ cents plus 6 holidays.
58 cents plus 6 holidays, plus noncontributory pensions, plus noncon-
tributory insurance.
57 cents plus 6 holidays, plus contributory insurance.
50 cents plus noncontributory insurance (6 holidays, plus noncon-
tributory pensions previously in effect).
43 cents plus 7 holidays, plus contributory insurance.
47½ cents plus 6 holidays (contributory insurance previously in
effect.
37 cents plus noncontributory pensions, plus contributory insurance.
47 cents (new construction).
79 cents (includes 25 cents negotiated in 1945) plus contributory in-
surance (6 holidays plus contributory pensions previously in effect).
55 cents plus 6 holidays, plus contributory pensions (noncontributory
insurance previously in effect).
46 cents plus 5 holidays, plus noncontributory pensions (noncontribu-
tory insurance previously in effect).
54 cents plus 6 holidays (noncontributory insurance previously in
effect).
57 cents plus 6 holIdays (noncontributory insurance previously in
effect).
52½ cents (6 holidays, plus noncontributory pensions, plus noncon-
tributory insurance previously in effect).
56 cents (6½ holidays for time workers, plus noncontributory pen-
sions, plus noncontributory insurance previously in effect).
42 cents plus 6 holidays.
42½ cents plus 6 holidays (noncontributory insurance previously in
effect).
Total settlements, 1951-54
High concentration:
United States Steel (key)
General Motors (key)
International Harvester -
Rubber (4 companies)
General Electric
Armour
Aluminum Co. (steelworkers). -
Anaconda Copper
Lockheed Aircraft
Glenn Martin
North American Aviation
Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Pacific Shipbuilding
Sinclair Oil
American Viscose
Low concentration:
Full Fashioned Hosiery
Northern Cotton Textiles
American Woolen
Men's clothing
Women's clothing
International Shoe
Massachusetts Shoe
29½ cents plus 6 holidays.
32 cents (includes 31-cent automatic increase).
28 cents (all automatic).
32 cents.
33 cents (estimated; includes 9-cent automatic increase).
31½ cents plus noncontributory pensions, plus noncontributory in-
surance.
35½ cents (estimated).
33 cents plus noncontributory pensions.
36 cents (includes 3-cent automatic increase).
43½ cents plus noncontributory pensions (includes 24-cent automatic
increase).
38½ cents plus noncontributory pensions (includes 1.5-cent automatic
increase).
52~-~ cents plus 6 holidays.
55 cents (new construction) plus noncontributory insurance.
313/a cents plus 1 holiday (estimated; includes 3-cent automatic in-
crease).
15 cents (includes il-cent automatic increase).
25 percent reduction in rates (estimated).
4 cents (includes 3-cent automatic increase).
4 cents.
12½ cents.
14 cents.
10½ cents plus noncontributory insurance.
8 cents plus ½ holiday.
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TABLE 6.-Wage-fringe adjustments in selected manufacturing industries,
1946-oS-Continued
Association bargaining discontinued after 1954.
73/~ cents.2
Out of business after 1954.
123/~ cents plus 1 holiday.
14 cents.
143/2 cents plus noncontributory pensions.
18 cents plus 3/~ holiday.
1 SUB = Supplementary unemployment benefit.
2 Association bargaining discontinued after 1954. The Berkshire-Hathaway Co. was substituted because
it had been a major concern in the previous association.
Source: Wage Chronology Series, Bureau of Labor Statistics and data published by the Bureau of Na-
tional Affairs. Some added information was obtained from personal correspondence.
Two important Characteristics of postwar wage patterns can
be noted from the table. First, the general level of settlements during
the period 1946-50 were very similar for the great majority of firms
and industries covered; in particular, no important differe'nces were
evident as between the high versus the low concentration sectors.
During this period, five separate rounds of wage-fringe increases
occurred. With few exceptions, manufacturing industries or com-
panies, regardless of their product market characteristics, followed
similar patterns. In the few instances of substantial downward
modification of the pattern, as in aircraft and shipbuilding, the
differences were made up in the 1951-54 period.
Beginning in 1951, however, very substantial deviations began to
develop, primarily in line with the competitive characteristics of the
industry. In the nonconcentrated sectors-textiles, clothing, and
leather (shoes)-settlements fell very far below the pattern. In
addition, the one company in the concentrated sector which fell
below--American Viscose, manufacturers of rayon yarn-was subject
to severe competition from the development of other synthetic fibers.
In effect, those manufacturing industries which were subject to
increasing competitive pressures in the product market and in which
profits were being seriously curtailed, did not match the pattern
established by the more profitable, and in most cases more
concentrated, industries.
Company or industry
Total settlements, 1955-58
High concentration:
United States Steel (key)
General Motors (key)
International Harvester
Rubber (4 companies)
General Electric
Armour
Aluminum Co. (steelworkers)~
Anaconda Copper
Lockheed Aircraft
Glenn Martin
North American Aviation
Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Pacific Shipbuilding
Sinclair Oil
American Viscose
Low concentration:
Full Fashioned Hosiery
Northern cotton textiles (Berk-
shire-Hathaway).
American Woolen
Men's clothing
Women's clothing
International Shoe
Massachusetts Shoe
593/~ cents plus SUB 1 plan, plus 1 holiday (includes 34-cent automatic
increase).
473's cents plus SUB plan, plus 1 holiday (includes 31-cent automatic
increase).
49 cents plus SUB plan, plus 1 holiday (includes 32-cent automatic
increase).
43 cents plus SUB plan, plus 1 holiday.
40 cents (estimated; includes 37-cent automatic increase).
54 cents (includes 28-cent automatic increase).
63 cents plus SUB plan, plus 1 holiday (includes 36-cent automatic
increase).
37 cents plus 1 holiday (includes 14-cent automatic increase).
39 cents plus 1 holiday (estimated; includes 1-cent automatic increase).
41 cents (estimated; includes 38-cent automatic increase).
36 cents plus~ 1 holiday (includes 19-cent automatic increase).
66 cents plus 1 holiday.
51 cents plus 6 holidays.
413/~ cents (estimated) plus 1 holiday.
133/2 cents (includes 83/2-cent automatic increase).
50505-GO-----2
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This general situation continued through 1955-58. The textile and
clothing industrirs, including American Viscose, and the shoe firms
continued to reach agreements far below the level set in the better
situated industries. Within the latter, more diversification also
developed, although the bulk of settlements ranged between 40 and
50 cents per hour. The major exceptions were in industries organized
by the steel union-steel, aluminum, and Atlantic coast shipbuilding
(Bethlehem Steel Co.); in these sectors, wage increases were 59~, 63,
and 66 cents, respectively (plus fringes), over the 4-year period.
The second point to be noted from the data is the increasing impor-
tance of automatic wage changes, incorporated into long-term.
contraQts in the form of cost-of-living adjustments and annual
improvement factors. During the 1946-50 period, this approach was
introduced by General Motors, but was rarely followed elsewhere.
In 1951-54, however, largely as a result of the sharp rise in the cost of
living which accompanied the outbreak of the Korean war in 1950, the
annual improvement factor-cost of living approach was adopted in
automobiles, farm equipment, aircraft, electrical equioment, and a
few others. The steel union, however, continued to follow the more
traditional approach, as did several other leading companies and
unions.
During 11955-58, however, most of the latter group also went over
to automatic adjustments. As a result, virtually every strongly
unionized company in the concentrated sectors listed in table 6 had
negotiated long-term contracts in 1955 and 1956, providing for auto-
matic annual wage increases plus automatic costs-of-living adjustments
through 1957, 1 958, and, in some cases, 1959. The only exceptions
were rubber, shipbuilding, and oil (Sinclair). On the other hand, none
of the low concentration sectors followed this policy after 1955.
The sequence of wage developments during the 1955-58 period is
also of very consid erable interest. In the sum mer of 1955, the major
"key" bargain was negotiated in the automObile industry, in which
sales and profits were at record or near record levels. The contract
extended for 3 years to mid-1958, and included an annual improve-
ment factor of appro~mately 6 cents per hour, a cost-of-living clause,
and additional fringes estimated to be worth approximately 12 cents
per hour. Shortly thereafter, the steel industry negotiated a straight
wage increase of 15 cents, under a wage reopener clause, in a contract
which expired in 1956. Output and profits in steel had also risen
sharply from the 1954 recession low; the relevant data for both the
automobile and steel industries are shown in table 7. Before the year
was out, the leading firms in several other major industries in which
market conditions and profits were adequate had negotiated similar
contracts, with many adopting the 3-year approach of the automobile
industry.
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TABLE 7.-Basic trends in the steel and automobile industries, 1947-58
11
Profits before
taxes on
Year equity
(percent)
Profits after
taxes on
equity
(percent)
Profits before
taxes as per-
cent of sales
Production
Output worker em-
(1947-49= ployment
100) (1947-49=
100)
IRON
1947 19.8
1948 17.0
1949 17.0
1950 28.1
1951 34.0
1952 17.6
1953 25.5
1954 16.0
1955 27.1
1956 25. 1
1957 22.7
1958 14.2
AND STEEL
12.1 10.9
14.7 12.3
9.9 10.9
14.2 15.1
12.3 16.0
8.5 9.3
10.7 12.4
8.1 10.5
13.5 14.5
12.7 12.9
11.4 13.0
7.2 10.5
101
106
92
118
131
117
139
109
146
143
139
105
101
105
93
104
110
95
110
97
107
104
105
86
MOTOR VEHICLES
1947
1948 -
1949
1950 .
27.9
32.9
35.8
51.8
39.5
36.8
37.9
29.4
46.1
27. 1
28. 1
14.4
15.6
18.7
20.9
24.6
14.1
13.6
13.6
13.9
21.1
13. 0
14. 0
8.1
10.4
11.8
13.2
17.1
13.2
12. 6
11.0
10.8
15.1
10. 8
10. 8
7.0
95
101
104
132
120
102
126
109
153
125
128
99
100
101
98
109
110
100
119
97
116
100
98
74
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
Sources: See app. A. The output index for "Iron and Steel" is the Federal Reserve Board index of indus-
trial production, with 1947 weights.
In mid-1956, the "key" bargain open for negotiation was in steeL
Both production and profits were at about their 1955 levels, a major
investment boom was developing in plant and equipment, and the
precedent set by the previous year's settlements in automobiles and
other industries was strong. The result was an extremely favorable
contract for the steelworkers-a 3-year contract extending into 1959,
including a 9-cent annual improvement factor, automatic cost-of-
living adjustments, and major fringe benefits. Similarly, favorable
long-term contracts were signed in the aluminum industry; in most
others, the terms were somewhat less liberal, but also involved long-
term commitments to annual wage increases.
The results of these two major "patterns," established in the auto-
mobile and steel industries during the period of high output and
profits, continued to be felt throughout the declining years of 1957
and 1958. In both of these years, despite marked declines in output
and employment throughout the economy, wage increases were auto-
matic in several major manufacturing industries. Further, the wide-
spread use of cost-of-living escalators magnified tile effects of quite
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small (originating) increases in the Consumer Price Index. The auto-
mobile contract, which terminated in the midst of the sharp reces-
sion of 1958, was again renewed for a 3-year period, and again included
an automatic annual improvement factor of 2~ percent per year
(about 7 cents) plus cost-of-living adjustments. Thus the recession
did not appear to have had any appreciable effect on the annual rate
of increase in negotiated rates; the direct costs of additional fringe
benefits negotiated in the 1958 automobile contract, however, were
very low. And in 1959, the steel contract was again being negotiated
in the context of a developing boom.
The probability that the rate of increase in wages after 1958 has
not been appreciably affected by the 3-year automobile contract is
given added support by a comparison of the wage-fringe increases
negotiated during the first 6 months of 1959 as compared to the same
period in 1955. These periods were generally comparable, since they
both represented approximately the same phase of sharp recovery
from previous recessions. From December 1954 to June 1955, unem-
ployment declined from 5.0 to 4.1 percent, seasonally adjusted; in the
same period, December 1958 to June 1959, the rate fell from 6.1 to
4.9 percent.
NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENTS, FIRST SIX MONTHS 1955 AND 1959
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The above chart relates to settlements involving 1,000 or more workers con-
cluded during the 6-month period. It includes all wage changes negotiated
during the January-June period that are scheduled to go into effect during the
contract year-i.e., the 12-month period following the effective date of the agree-
ment. In summarizing percentage increases, it has been necessary to estimate
Thousands of wonkers
900
Wage ho euçe
S coreoseohorge
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their value in terms of cents on the basis of available information on wage levels
in the industry.
This chart excludes-
Settlements involving fewer than 1,000 workers.
Settlements in construction, the service trades, finance, and government.
Instances in which contract reopening privileges were not exercised.
Wage increases and changes in supplementary practices that went into
effect during the period but that were negotiated earlier-for example,
deferred wage increases, cost-of-living adjustments, or annual improvement
factor increases.
Chart 1 provides a comparison of the number of employees covered
by negotiated contracts who received wage increases within specified
ranges in the first 6 months of 1955 and 1959. In 1955, 72 percent
of employees received wage increases of 5 to 11 cents, compared to
only 60 percent in early 1959. However, a full 30 percent received
more than 1 1 cents in 1959, contrasted to only 8 percent in 1955;
contrariwise, 15 percent received less than 5 cents in 1955 compared
to 8 percent in 1959. An estimate of the weighted average of wage
increases for 1955 was 7.6 cents; in 1959, 9.2 cents. This increase of
about 20 percent approximates the rise in hourly earnings from 1955
to 1959; relatively, therefore, the 1959 increase was no greater than
1955. On the other hand, the rate of unemployment was almost one
percentage point greater in the first 6 months of 1959 as compared
to 1955. And finally, 69 percent of the 1959 settlements also liberalized
one or more fringe benefits as contrasted to 60 percent in the first 6
months of 1955, although the costs of the 1959 fringes may well have
been below those of 1955. The weight of evidence, however, indicates
that the rate of advance in wage-fringe costs has not been slower
during the 1959 upswing.
One final possible qualification should be noted. The data on
which these comparisons are based excludes contracts which con-
tained reopening clauses that were not utilized-that is, contracts in
which no increases occurred because the union chose not to request
one. They also exclude several types of settlements noted in the
chart. It is doubtful that this would affect the data in any important
way.
III. THE MOVEMENT OF MANUFACTURING PRICES
An analysis similar to that applied to wage movements was also
carried out for price movements in 16 two-digit manufacturing indus-
tries. Since the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not compute whole-
sale price indexes on a basis consistent with most two-digit classifica-
tions, it was necessary to construct such indexes by recombining
various subgroups of the wholesale price index. The sources and
methods used are described in appendix A. The resulting price
indexes are shown in table 8 9; in all, they account for close to 80
percent of the weights in the entire wholesale price index, and for
approximately 95 percent of the total weight in the "all manufactures"
index. The major additional items included in the entire wholesale
price index are, of course, farm products.
Only 16 industrial sectors are represented because of lack of adequate price data for the remaining 3-
printing and publishing, transportation equipment, and instruments. Wherever feasible in the following
discussion, price and other data for the three-digit industry, motor vehicles, is used in place of transporta-
tion equipment. All of the statistical tests, however, are based only upon the 16 two-dIgit sectors.
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A complete year-to-year cross-section analysis, relating the per-
centage change in price to several variables, was conducted. The
simple correlation coefficients for several of the more important
possible relationships are listed in table 9. In addition, the complete
matrix of all possible simple correlation coefficients is provided in
appendix B.
TABLE 9.-Simple cross-section correlation coefficients between price changes and
selected variables in 16 manufacturing industries, 1947-58 1
Year
Percentage change in wholesale price index on-
Gross
hourly
earnings
Produc-
tivity per
production
worker
man-hour
Output
Average
profits
before
taxes
Average
profits
after
taxes
Ooncentra-
tion ratios
1947-48
1948-49
1949-50
1950-51
1951-52
1952-53
1953-54
1954-55
1955-56
1956-57
1957-58
0.093
.214
-.055
.101
.375
.546
.620
.551
-. 098
.551
.308
0. 024
.328
.170
-.415
.035
-.171
-.215
-.201
-. 418
-.100
.329
0.375
-.416
.073
-.199
-.065
.176
-.247
.587
. 283
.397
.115
0.339
.439
-.041
.294
.536
.490
.715
.448
. 404
.585
.629
0. 560
.335
.113
-.066
.624
.432
.505
.395
- 442
.711
.276
0.329
.287
-.019
-.526
.581
.595
.387
.196
. 193
.617
-.114
1 The 5-percent level of significance Is 0.4973. The 1-percent level is 0.6226.
Source: See apps. A and B.
A number of interesting points are indicated. Perhaps of greatest
importance is the lack of any evident relationship between changes
in prices and changes in output, at least up to 1954. After 1954, the
correlation became weakly positive, except for the one year of sharp
recovery, 1954-55, when a significant relationship appeared.
The remaining findings may be briefly summarized as follows:
1. Changes in prices were not strongly related to changes in produc-
tivity per production worker man-hour. It is of some interest, how-
ever, that several negative correlations appeared, indicating that
lower price increases were often associated with greater increases in
productivity.
2. Price changes were unrelated to changes in gross hourly earnings
during the early part of the period up to 195 1-52. After that point,
however, the correlation became very much stronger.
3. Price adjustments were clearly related to profit levels throughout
most of the postwar period; the relationship was strongest, however,
after 1951.
4. The relationship of price changes to concentration ratios was
quite irregular. Up to 1951, it was low or negative; in fact, the strong
negative correlation in 1950-51 suggests that prices in nonconcen-
trated industries rose more than in concentrated. Prom 1951 to
1957, however, the coefficient was consistently positive, though the
strength of the relationship varied considerably. And finally, the
correlation became weakly negative in the 1957-58 recession.1°
10 The first three of theseresults, relating to output, productivity, and earnings, were also found by Conrad,
op. cit. Using both simple and multiple regression analysis to test price changes against changes In wages,
output, productivity, and employment, he concluded that "only the price-wage relationship and the price-
employment change relationship approach economic significance"; his data show a much lower partial
correlation coefficient for the latter relationship, however. His analysis included 61 three-digit industries.
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A closer evaluation of the relationship of prices to output and
wages was obtained by a multiple cross-section regression analysis
covering the two subperiods 1947-53 and 1953-58. The percentage
change in the wholesale price index was tested against (1) the per-
centage change in output and (2) the percentage change in direct
labor costs per unit of output per total worker man-hour. The
latter variable thus takes account of the effects of productivity on
labor costs as well. The results are shown in table 10. Output was
not a significant variable during either subperiod (after taking ac-
count of changes in unit direct labor costs); on the other hand, direct
labor costs were highly correlated with price changes during the 1953-
58 period, but much less strongly so from 1947 to 1953. In general,
these findings are consistent with those indicated by the simple correla-
tion analysis.
TABLE 1O.-Cross-section regression equations: Prices
Independent variable
Regression
coefficient
Partial
correlation
coefficient
Beta coeffi-
cient
Standard
error of beta
coefficient
1947-53:
Percent change:
Output
Direct labor costs per unit of output
per total worker man-hour -
1953-58:
Percent change:
Output
Direct labor costs per unit of output
per total worker man-hour
0.1891
.4982
.2395
1 9367
0.2516
.3730
.3681
1~ 7630
0.2365
.3661
.3261
. 0724
0.2522
.2522
.2284
. 2284
Regression constants:
1947-53 6.84
1953-58 3.76
Multiple correlation coefficient:
1947-53 R = .4209
1953-58 R =1.7916
Coefficient of multiple determination:
1947-53 B 2 .1772
1953-58 B 2=1 6266
Degrees of freedom~ N-3=13
1 Significant at the 5 percent level.
Similar relationships were shown by time series analyses, although
the small number of observations and the major structural shifts
which occurred in the economy during the 1947-58 period limit the
usefulness of time series for this purpose. In table 11, the simple
correlation coefficients are given for each two-digit industry, indicat-
ing the relationship between price changes and several other variables
from 1947 to 1958. Table 12 summarizes the results of a multiple
regression analysis, relating the percent change in prices to (1) the
percent change in output, and (2) the percent change in gross hourly
earnings. In both cases, the price-output relationship was very
weak, while the price-gross hourly wage relationship was strong. In
8 of the 16 industries, the price-wage correlation was significant at
the 5-percent level; in 2 more, it was close to that level of significance.
In addition, the simple correlation coefficients between price changes
and profit levels were at or close to 5-percent significance level in
nine industries. Thus the time series data tend to corroborate the
general results of the cross-section analysis.
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I'ABLE 11.-Simple time series correlation coefficients between annual changes in
prices and selected variables, 1947-58'
Industry
Percent change in wholesale price index on-
Percent
change:
Gross hourly
earnings
Percent
change:
Ouptut
Percent
change:
Productivity
per produc-
tion worker
man-hour
Rate of
return on
equity,
before taxes
20. Food
11. Tobacco
22. Textiles
23. Apparel
24. Lumber
25. Furniture
26. Paper
28. Chemicals
29. Petroleum
~0. Rubber
31. Leather
32. Stone, clay, and glass
33. Primary metals
34. Fabricated metals
35. Machinery, except electrical
36. Electrical machinery
0.400
.132
. 651
. 816
-.187
. 655
.497
.378
. 565
.245
. 574
. 826
. 692
. 755
. 727
. 652
-0. 287
-.117
. 413
-. 028
.780
-. 065
.275
. 357
. 587
.543
-. 318
. 265
. 442
. 159
.419
. 236
-0. 517
.270
-. 683
-. 232
.213
-. 414
-.065
-. 145
. 476
-.562
-. 270
-. 093
. 062
-. 053
-. 545
-. 498
0. 152
.031
. 608
. 126
.914
. 655
.771
. 599
. 685
.724
-. 016
. 228
. 675
- 620
. 495
. 280
1 The 5 percent level of significance is 0.6021 the 1 percent level is 0.7348.
Sources: See app. A.
TABLE 12.-Time series partial correlation coefficients between annual changes in
prices, output, and hourly earnings, 1947-58 1
Industry
Partial correlation 2 of
percent change in price on-
Change in
output
Change in
gross hourly
earnings
20.Food
21. Tobacco
22. Textiles
23. Apparel
24. Lumber
25.Furniture
26. Paper
28. Chemicals
29. Petroleum
30. Rubber
31. Leather
32. Stone, clay, and glass
33. Primary metals
34. Fabricated metals
35. Machinery, except electrical
36. Electrical machinery
-0.037
-.114
.290
.202
. 807
-.036
.331
.319
. 534
. 501
-.277
-. 081
. 238
-.108
-. 138
. 276
0.416
.129
.604
.825
-. 375
.653
.523
.342
. 508
.027
.558
. 813
. 623
.751
. 663
. 661
The 5 percent level of significance is 0.6319; the 1 percent level Is 0.7646.
2 These are partial correlation coefficients corresponding to the regression coefficients in the equation
P=a+bO+cWo, where P is the percent change in wholesale price, 0 is the percent change in output, and
Wo is the percent change in gross hourly earnings.
TRENDS IN SPECIFIC MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
On the basis of the data on prices, wages, productivity, and profits,
indexes were computed for each two-digit industry for which data
were available, reflecting trends in the wholesale price index, direct
labor costs per unit of output per total worker man-hour, and re-
turns to capital (profits before taxes plus depreciation and depletion
charges) per dollar of sales. These indexes are described in appendix
A. In order to compare the movements of each of these variables
both within each industry and among industries, ratios were computed
to show the trends of each variable in each two-digit industry relative
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to the trend in manufacturing as a whole. The resulting ratios ar
included in appendix C.
While these indexes are probably indicative of general trends iii
manufacturing industries, their limitations should be carefully noted,
It has already been pointed out that the scope and method of classi-
fying these various series differ, depending largely upon the naturc
and availability of the data involved. Thus profits are on a corporate
basis, earnings, employment, and output are on an establishment
basis, and prices on a product basis. In addition, the series included
are not exhaustive, i.e., they do not reflect all the costs (including
profits) which go to make up the final price. In particular, no data
are available on the costs of materials; also, indirect taxes may be an
important element of price in a few instances, as in tobacco products.
Finally, the indexes of direct labor costs per unit of output very prob-
ably understate the actual rate of increase in labor costs, since they
are based on the trend in gross hourly earnings of production workers
only; no figures are available to show average hourly labor costs of
both production and nonproduction workers. The resulting indexes
probably understate the rate of increase in labor costs because (1) the
rate of increase of employment of nonproduction workers has con-
siderably exceeded that of production workers; in fact, the total
number of production workers employed in manufacturing in 1958
was considerably lower than in 1947, whereas employment of non-
production workers had risen by over 50 percent, and (2) because the
average level of hourly compensation for nonproduction workers very
probably exceeded the average hourly earnings of production workers.
Thus, the shift in "employee mix" would result in a greater rate of
increase in labor costs than would be reflected in the trend of earnings
for production workers alone.
Since the following data is presented in terms of basic trends rela-
tive to manufacturing as a whole, some preliminary discussion of the
underlying movement of prices, costs, and profits in all manufactur-
ing may be helpful. These figures are presented in table 13. It is
clear that the manufacturing price level has risen steadily since 1947,
with the exception of a fairly substantial reduction of 3.2 percent in
the 1949 recession and a smaller downward readjustment after the
sharp speculative rise which accompanied the outbreak of the Korean
war in mid-1951.
TABLE 13.-Basic trends in manufacturing, 1947-58
[1947-49=100]
Year
Wholesale
price index:
All manu-
factures
Direct labor
costs per
unit of
output
Profits plus
depreciation
and depletion
as percent
of sales
Materials
and compo-
ments for
manufac-
turing
Production
worker
employment
Nonproduc-
tion worker
employment
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
95.9
103.8
100.3
104. 1
115.5
112.9
112.8
113.7
- 115.0
119. 5
123.2
~124.5
96.3
101.6
101. 6
99.8
109.2
111.6
114.6
114.5
112. 1
115.8
118.8
120.4
102.3
105.0
92. 7
119. 0
114.6
99.7
100.6
98.0
- 112.8
109.3
102.3
1 92.7
96.4
104.0
99. 6
104. 5
118.4
113.4
115.2
115.4
118.2
123.7
126.9
127.2
103.4
102.8
93.8
99. 6
106.4
106.3
111.8
101.8
105. 6
106. 7
104.4
94.2
97.4
101.8
100.8
103. 5
115.2
124.6
133.0
133.0
136.8
144.8
151.2
148.8
Sources: See app. A. The "Materials and components" index is from the Economic Report of the Pres.
dent, January 1959, p. 103. ____ --
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SOURCES AND LIMITATIONS OF DATA
During the early part of this period from 1947 to 1950, labor costs
and profits all rose considerably. From 1950 to 1954, profit margins
declined, then again rose sharply with the strong recovery of 1955.
During the subsequent period to 1957, they declined moderately,
then fell considerably in the 1958 recession. By the end of the period
(1956-58), the proportion of the sales dollar going into profits plus
depreciation and depletion was at approximately the same level as in
1947-49. The pattern of movement, however, has been for gross
margins to rise sharply at the beginning of boom periods and to
recede gradually during the subsequent years of "leveling off."
The index of direct labor costs per unit of output has shown a
continuing upward trend over the period, except for relatively small
declines in 1950 and 1955, undoubtedly reflecting the increase in
productivity which normally accompanies a strong upswing in out-
put.'1 Table 13 also shows the very considerable shift in employment
toward nonproduction workers. It has already been noted that one
probable result of this shift in employment patterns has been to raise
the rate of increase in total labor costs per unit faster than is reflected
in the index of unit direct labor costs. An additional implication
of the rising importance of nonproduction worker employment is the
fact that labor costs have become less responsive to cutbacks in
production during recessions; this is clearly shown by the very much
greater cutbacks in production worker than in nonproduction worker
employment during the recessions of 1949, 1954, and 1958. By
the same token, as Schultze has pointed out, one major reason for
the rapid rise in labor costs per unit from 1955 to. 1957 was the more
than 10 percent increase in nonproduction worker employment as
contrasted to the rise of only 3.5 percent in manufacturing produc-
tion; the result, of course, was to hold down the rate of increase in
productivity per total worker man-hour.'2 One must presume,
however, that in the long run, producers expect the shift in employee-
mix to represent a profitable choice; in the 1955-58 period, however,
it probably had a considerable adverse effect on unit labor costs and
profit margins.
The data included in appendix C provide a basis for comparing
the general trends of prices, wages, profits, and other variables over
time, both within and between industries. In table 14, ratios of the
specific industry indexes to the index of all manufacturing are shown
for several important variables, as of 1957." The year 1957 is used
in order to avoid the effects on the data of the 1958 recession. For
purposes of analysis, the industries have also been classified according
to the extent of concentration and the strength of unionization in
each. It should be stressed, however, that these trends cannot be
considered as anything more than suggestive; considerably more
detailed studies would be required within each sector before a more
11 It must be stressed here that the trend indicated by the index of profits margins cannot be meaningfully
compared to the trend indicated by the index of labor costs per unit of output, since the basis of computing
the indexes isquite different. The index of profit margins is a measure of profits deflated by sales. The
index of labor costs per unit, on the other hand, is a measure of direct labor costs deflated by man-hour
productivity. The profits index reflects a percentage, whereas the labor cost Index reflects an absolute
amount.
12 See Charles L. Schultze, "Recent Inflation in the United States," Joint Economic Committee Study
of Employment, Growth, and Price Levels, Study Paper No. 1.
13 It should be noted that we are here comparing the ratios of indexes, rather than the indexes of each
variable directly. Thus the problem cited in footnote 11 does not arise.
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firm evaluation of the role of concentration and unionization can be
made.
TABLE 14.-Ratio of indexes in specific industries relative to all manufacturing, 1957
[1947-49 ratio=100J
Straight
Labor
Concen-
Esti-
Industry
Whole-
sale
price
Output
time
hourly
earnings
costs per
unit of
output
Returns
to
capital
tration
ratios
(percent)
mated
union
strength
(percent)
Ailmanufacturing
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
Highly concentrated, strongly
unionized industries:
.
Primary metals
132
90
107
119
113
81
75-100
Rubber
119
91
99
107
109
51
75-100
Stone, clay, and glass
118
99
102
103
117
58
50- 75
Electrical machinery
Motor vehicles
113
110
135
87
98
98
94
NA.
92
100
72
96
75-100
75-100
Petroleum
102
96
102
100
91
99
50- 75
Highly concentrated, weakly
unionized industries:
Tobacco
103
79
104
08
139
100
25- 50
Chemicals
89
137
107
87
121
59
25- 50
Low concentration, strongly
unionized industries:
Nonelectrical machinery - -
125
93
102
119
96
31
75-100
Fabricated metals
115
92
102
122
74
19
50- 75
Paper
105
107
103
106
83
5
50- 75
Apparel
83
82
82
95
83
8
75-100
Low concentration, weakly
unionized industries:
Furniture
106
96
06
99
77
7
25- 50
Lumber
Leather
Food
97
88
86
75
78
83
96
90
104
91
96
107
58
102
90
2
2
22
25- 50
25- 50
25- 50
Textiles
74
73
85
81
52
12
0- 25
Source: App. C.
Nevertheless, at least some tentative observations may be made
with respect to these figures. Perhaps the most striking are the trends
in the primary metals industry. From 1947 to 1957, the wholesale
price index rose to a level almost one-third higher than the price index
for all manufacturing. Direct labor costs per unit rose by nearly 20
percent more, and returns to capital by 13 percent more than in all
manufacturing. Yet these strong upward movements in relative
prices, wages, and profit margins developed during a period in which
output rose by considerably less than in manufacturing as a whole.'4
Among the remaining industries within the highly concentrated,
strongly unionized group, no similar clear trends are evident. In
general, their price indexes rose by more than the average; this was not
consistently related, however, to the movement of hourly earnings,
labor costs, or returns to capital. Straight-time hourly earnings
increased in all of these sectors by almost exactly the same amount as
in manufacturing as a whole. In rubber and stone, clay, and glass,
however, labor costs and capital returns both rose more than all
manufacturing average; in electrical machinery and petroleum, on the
other hand, the opposite was generally the case.
The two industries characterized by high concentration and weak
union organization-tobacco and chemicals-reveal some interesting
trends. In each of them, hourly earnings rose by more than the manu-
14 For a much more comprehensive analysis of these trends and the causal factors underlying them, see
Otto Eckstein and Gary Fromm, "Steel and the Postwar Inflation", Joint Economic Committee Study
of Emp'oyment, Growth, and Price Levels Study Paper No. 2.
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facturing average; productivity also increased sufficiently, however,
that labor costs per unit rose by less than the average, particularly in
chemicals. Also, the wholesale price index in these two sectors showed
rio significant relative upward movement (chemicals dropped con-
siderably, in relative terms). The most striking figure which emerges,
however, is the very considerable rise in total returns to capital;
~n both industries, these margins rose by very much more than in all
manufacturing and by considerably more than any other individual
sector.
Among the low concentration, strongly unionized industries, some-
what opposite trends are suggested. Once again, hourly earnings fol-
[owed the all manufacturing trend; labor costs per unit, however, rose
by quite a bit more than the average, except in apparel, and the same
bendency is evident in the fact that prices in all of these sectors except
~ppare1 rose by more than in all manufacturing. Porfit margins,
iowever, tended to decline.
Finally, those industries characterized both by a considerable
~mount of competition in the product market and by weak union
)rgarnzation all showed fairly similar characterstics. In general,
iourly earnings and labor costs per unit rose by somewhat less than
n all manufacturing; profit margins, on the other hand, fell quite
;ubstantially behind in most instances. [n addition, output in these
ndustries increased by considerably less than in manufacturing, al-
~hough it will be recalled that no significant correlation was found
Jetweell output, prices, and wages on the basis of year to year changes,
r changes during major subperiods.
IV. SUMMARY
The primary purpose of the preceding discussion has been to pre-
;ent a body of data and to describe the statistical procedures utilized
n analyzing that data as part of an evaluation of the forces under-
ying the postwar inflation in the United States. Among the most
mportant of the findings of this statistical analysis are the following:
1. No important relationship was found between percent changes
n straight time earnings and either percent changes in output, per-
~ent changes in production worker employment, or percent changes in
)utput per production worker man-hour. On the other hand, the
lata indicated a strong interrelationship, particularly after 1951, be-
ween percent changes in straight time hourly earnings, profit levels
measures as a rate of return on stockholders' equity), and 1954 con-
~entration ratios. These general relationships were supported by
)oth simple and multipe cross-section and time series analyses. They
vere also given support by an analysis of wage "patterns" during the
)ostwar period.
2. Based on the most recent available estimates of union strength,
there was no generally applicable relationship between union strength
rnd wage increases in various industries. While these estimates are
~onsiderably outdated, it is probable that union strength has not
thanged greatly in most industries over the past decade.
3. One of the factors underlying the upward movement of hourly
~arnings during the 1956-58 period was the long-term contracts
)rigmating in the automobile and steel settlements of 1955 and 1956,
vhich provided for automatic annual productivity increases and cost-
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of-living adjustments through 1957, 1958, and 1959. These contracts
established a pattern for several other major industries in the economy.
4. No important re1ationship~ were found between percent changes
in price and percent changes in output, particularly up to 1954; even
after 1954, the only statistically significant relationship appeared in
the 1954-55 upswing. In addition, price changes were unrelated to
percent changes in productivity per production worker man-hour.
5. Changes in price were most clearly related to profit levels
throughout most of the postwar period. A strong relationship to
changes in gross hourly earnings also developed after 1951. No con-
sistently strong relationship was found between price changes and
concentration ratios.
In closing, it should again be noted that important limitations exist
with regard to the n tture, scope, and comparability of the data.
Nevertheless, it is hoped that the preceding discussion wifi provide
a more complete analysis of the data than has been previously
available.
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APPENDIXES
APPENDIX A
SOURCES OF BASIC DATA
The data underlying the analysis of the movement of manufacturing wages
nd prices from 1947 to 1958 are presented in tables A-i to A-21, for each two-
igit standard industrial classification. The sources and methodology used in
btarning the data are the following:
I. WHOLESALE PRICE INDEXES
For all two-digit classifications except printing and publishing, transportation
quipment, and instruments, wholesale price indexes were computed by recorn-
ining the appropriate wholesale price index groups and subgroups, weighted
y their relative importance in 1954. In some cases, these special indexes were
omputed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the use of the author; in others,
~dexes were computed by the author based upon information provided by the
~ureau of Labor Statistics regarding the appropriate subgroups to be included.
4ost of the indexes are not completely comprehensive, in that they do not include
11 the wholesale price index subgroups which properly should be included; in
ddition, in order to minimize computations, some small subgroups were some-
imes included which should properly have been excluded. The final indexes,
owever, comprise at least 80 percent of the total weights of items which would
e represented by as accurate an index as could be constructed from current
ems included in the wholesale price index. The composition of each two-
igit standard industrial classifications group is as follows:
Relative
importance
in WPI,
December
1957 (based
on 1954
SIC group WPI groups weights)
0. Food 12. 73
02 Processed foods
Source: Wholesale Price Index.
1. Tobacco . 97
14-1 Cigarettes
14-2 Cigars
14-3 Other tobacco products
Source: Computed by author.
2. Textile mill products 3 18
03-1 Cotton
03-2 Wool
03-3 Manmade fiber textile
products
03-4 Silk
Less: 03-31 Filament yarns and fibers
Source: Computed by BLS for author.
3. Apparel and other finished textile products 3. 22
03-51 Womens'; misses', and
juniors
03-52 Mens' and boys'
03-54 Infants' and children's
03-55 Underwear and nightwear
Source: Computed by author.
28
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Relative
Importanc
in WPI,
December
1957 (base
on 1954
SIC 9TOU~ WPI groups weights)
24. Lumber and wood products 2. 97
08 Lumber and wood products
Source: Wholesale Price Index.
25. Furniture and fixtures 1. 3C
12-1 Household furniture
12-2 Commercial furniture
Source: Computed by author.
26. Paper and allied products 5. 17
09 Pulp, paper, and allied products
Source: Wholesale Price Index.
27. Printing and publishing Not availabk
28. Chemicals and allied products 5. 8~
06 Chemicals and affied products
Source: Wholesale Price Index.
29. Petroleum refining and related products 4. 2~l
05-5 Refined petroleum products
Less: 05-56 Crude petroleum
05-57 Natural gas
Source: Special published BLS Index.
30. Rubber and related products 1. 3~
07 Rubber and rubber products
Less: 07-11 Natural rubber
07-12 Synthetic rubber
Source: Computed by BLS for author.
31. Leather and leather products 1. 27
04 Hides, skins, leather, and
leather products
Less: 04-1 Hides and skins
Source: Computed by BLS for author.
32. Stone, clay, and glass products 2. 1~
11-48 Abrasives
12-61 Dinnerware
12-62 Glassware
12-63 Glass containers
13-1 Flat glass
13-22 Cement
13-31 Building block
13-32 Concrete pipe
13-4 Structural clay products
13-5 Gypsum
Source: Computed by author.
33. Primary metals 7* i~
10-13 Semifinished steel
products
10-14 Finished steel products
10-15 Foundry and forge shop
produ cts
10-16 Pig iron and ferroalloys
10-22 Nonferrous refinery
shapes
10-24 Nonferrous secondary
shapes
10-25 Nonferrous mill shapes
10-26-01 Bare copper wire
Source: Computed by BLS for author.
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25
Relative
importance
in WPI,
December
1957 (based
on 1954
SIC group WPlgroups weights)
34. Fabricated metal products 5. 28
10-3 Metal containers
10-4 Hardware
10-5 Plumbing equipment
10-6 Heating equipment
10-7 Fabricated structural
products
10-8 Fabricated nonstructural
products
Source: Computed by BLS for author.
35. Machinery, except electrical 7. 81
11-1 Agricultural machinery
11-2 Construction machinery
11-3 Metalworking machinery
11-4 General purpose machinery
11-5 Miscellaneous machinery
Source: Computed by BLS for author.
36. Electrical machinery 7. 11
11-7 Electrical machinery
12-5 TV, radio, and phonographs
10-26 Wire and cable
Source: Computed by BLS for author.
37. Transportation equipment Not available
371. Motor vehicles 5. 55
11-8 Motor vehicles
Source: Wholesale Price Index.
38. Instruments Not available
Total weights included in indexes above 77. 26
Total weight in WPI represented by "all manufactures"
index 82.95
II. GROSS AND STRAIGHT TIME HOURLY EARNINGS
Data on gross hourly earnings were obtained directly from published data of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figures are based upon reports from cooperating
establishments, and pertain only to production and related workers.
Straight time earnings were derived from the gross figures by applying adjust..
ment factors contained in the May 1950 Monthly Labor Review. The adjust-.
ment factor is designed to exclude only the premium pay for overtime at the rate
of time and a half for work in excess of 40 hours per week.
III. PRODUCTION AND NONPRODUCTION WORKER EMPLOYMENT
Both series were derived directly from data published by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. The number of production workers is published directly on the basis
of reports from cooperating establishments. The number of nonproduction
workers was obtained by subtracting production workers from the number of total
employees in each 2-digit industry.
iv. OUTPUT
These indexes are based on the 1947 Standard Industrial Classification. All
but the index for motor vehicles were provided by the Federal Reserve Board at
the request of the Joint Economic Committee. They differ from the regularly
published indexes of industrial production of the Reserve Board in that the latter
were based on 1947 value added weights, whereas the indexes used here are based
on 1954 value added weights. The 1954 weighted indexes were developed as
part of the Reserve Board's testing procedures; they do not constitute official
Federal Reserve Board indexes, nor does the Board necessarily endorse the use of
1954 weights.
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It may also be noted that the Board has recently published revised indexes,
using 1957 weights for the period beginning with January 1953, and based upon
the new 1957 Standard Industrial Classifications.
The index for motor vehicles is based upon the published Federal Reserve
Board index, with 1947 weights.
V. PRODUCTIVITY
A. Output per production worker man-hour.--This series was computed by di-
viding the Federal Reserve Board output index (1954 weights) by an index of
production worker man-hours. Production worker man-hours was computed
by multiplying production worker employment by average weekly hours, as
published by the BLS.
B. Output per total worker rnan-hour.-----This series was computed by dividing
the Federal Reserve Board output index (1954 weights) by an index of total
worker man-hours. Total worker man-hours represents the sum of production
worker man-hours (see A, above) plus the product of nonproduction worker
employment times 40 hours per week.
VI. PROFITS: RATES OF RETURN AND MARGINS
A. Rate of return on stockholders' equity.-The basic data on profits before and
after taxes, and on stockholders' equity were obtained from the Quarterly Financial
Report for Manufacturing Corporations, published by the Federal Trade Com-
mission and Securities Exchange Commission. The entire profits and other data
for each corporation are included within any given SIC group on the basis of the
corporation's major source of gross sales receipts.
The series is based as nearly as possible on the sample used by the FTC-SEC
during the period 1956-57. Three breaks in the sample coverage occurred in the
first quarter of 1951, the first quarter of 1956, and the first quarter of 1958. In
each case, the data were revised to the 1956-57 sample by linking the series on
the basis of as many overlap quarters as were available. Annual profits are the
sum of the four quarter figures; stockholders' equity is as of the end of the fourth
quarter.
B. Profit margins, and depreciation and depletion charges per dollar of sales.-
Basic data on sales, and depreciation and depletion charges were obtained from
FTC-SEC Quarterly Financial Reports, utilizing the same techniques described
in A, above.
VII. DIRECT LABOR COSTS PER UNIT OF OUTPUT
The indexes of direct labor costs per unit of output per production worker
man-hour, and of direct labor costs per unit of output per total worker man-hour
were derived by dividing the index of gross average hourly earnings by the index
of productivity per production worker man-hour and per total worker man-hour,
respectively.
VIII. CONCENTRATION RATIOS
These ratios have been computed on the basis of data contained in the report
on "Concentration in American Industry," prepared for the Subcommittee on
Antitrust and ~\`Ionopoly of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 85th Congress,
1st session. The figures used were taken from table 37, "Share of product ship-
ments accounted for by largest companies, 1954."
In arriving at the ratios used, the total values of product shipments in each
4-digit industry (within the given 2-digit classification) showing a 50 percent or
more concentration ratio for the eight largest companies constituted the numer-
ator. The denominator represented the total value of product shipments for
the entire 2-digit industry. The resulting concentration ratios, therefore, reflect
the proportion of the total value of product shipments in each 2-digit group repre-
sented by "concentrated" 4-digit industries (those in which the eight largest
firms accounted for 50 percent or more of the total value of product shipments in
1954) in that group. The concentration ratios for 1954 were:
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20 Food and kindred - 22. 4
21 Tobacco 100.0
22 Textile mill 11. 9
23 Apparel 5. 7
24 Lumber 1. ~
25 Furniture and fixtures 7. 3
26 Paper 5.0
27 Printing and publishing 2. 3
28 Chemicals 59. 4
29 Petroleum refining 99. 1
30 Rubber 51. 2
31 Leather 2.3
32 Stone, clay, glass 57. 9
33 Primary metals 81. 1
34 Fabricated metals 19.3
35 Machinery, nonelectrical 31. 1
36 Electrical machinery 72. 0
37 Transportation equipment 83. 2
371 Motor vehicles 96. 3
38 Instruments 69. 9
Tables A-i to A-21 are presented below.
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APPENDIX B
CROSS-SECTION CORRELATION MATRIXES
1. Percent change: Straight-time hourly earn-
ings
2. Percent change: Production worker em-
ployment
3. Percent change: Output per production
worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Average return on equity before taxes
6. Average return on equity after taxes
7. Concentration ratio
1. Percent change: Straight-time hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production worker em-
ployment
3 Percent change: Output per production
worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Average return on equity before taxes
6. Average return on equity after taxes
7. ConcentratIon ratio
1. Percent change: Straight-time hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production worker em-
ployment
3. Percent change: Output per production
worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Average return on equity before taxes
6. Average return on equity after taxes
7. Concentration ratio
49
TABLE B-i .-Matrixes of simple cross-section correlation coefficients: Wages (N= 19)
Variable 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1947-48
1.0
0. 417
1.0
-0.248
-. 357
1.0
0. 195
609
- 486
1.0
1. Percent change: Straight-time hourly earn-
ings
2. Percent change: Production workers em-
ployment
3. Percent change: Output per production
worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Average return on equity before taxes
6. Average return on equity after taxes
7. Concentration ratio -
1. Percent change: Straight-time hourly earn-
ings
2. Percent change: Production worker em-
ployment
3. Percent change: Output per production
worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Average return on equity before taxes
6. Average return on equity after taxes
7. Concentration ratio
0.012
121
.394
463
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0.138
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367
472
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396
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282
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107
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447
527
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.340
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50 PRICES AND WAGES IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
1. Percent change: Straight-time hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production worker em-
ployment
3. Percent change: Output per production
worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Average return on equity before taxes
6. Average return on equity after taxes
7. Concentration ratio
1. Percent change: Straight-time hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production worker em-
ployment
3. Percent change: Output per production
worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Average return on equity before taxes
6. Average return on equity after taxes
7. Concentration ratio
1. Percent change: Straight-time hourly
earnings 1.0
2. Percent change: Production worker em-
ployment .
3. Percent change: Output per production
worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Average return on equity before taxes:
6. Average return on equity after taxes
7. Concentration ratio
1. Percent change: Straight-time hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production worker em-
ployment
3. Percent change: Output per production
worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Average return on equity before taxes:___
6. Average return on equity after taxes
7. Concentration ratio:;
1. Percent change: Straight-time hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production worker em-
ployment
3. Percent change: Output per production
worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Average return on equity before taxes
6. Average return on equity after taxes
7. Concentration ratio
1.0
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0.354
0.086
0.055
0. 146
0.428
1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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.182
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1.0
1956-57
TABLE B-i .-Matrixes of simple cross-section correlation coefficients: Wages
(N=19)-Contjnued
Variable
1121 3j 41516 I~
1952-53
1.0
0.249
1.0
0.251
.082
1.0
0.332 0.550
- 897 - 782
.488 154
1.0 .724
1.0
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- 582 - 370
.205 .080
.603 .360
.806 .559
1.0 .537
1.0
1953-54
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1.0
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.416
1.0
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.111
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1.0
0. 520
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-.006
-.020
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1.0
0.463
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-.264
-.471
.553
.598
1.0
1954-55
0.233 0. 102
1.0 -.155
1.0
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0. 514
- 413
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1.0
0.383
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.306
- 199
-447
- 460
1.0
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0.390
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1.0
0.372
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- 603
1.0
0. 546
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0.544
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906
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0.607
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- 504
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.755
1.0
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PRICES AND WAGES IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
1. Percent change: Gross hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production
worker employment
3. Percent change: Output per pro-
duction worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output -
5. Percent change: Wholesale price
index
6. Average return on equity before
taxes
7. Average return on equity after
taxes
8. ConcentratIon ratio
1. Percent change: Gross hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Pro du ö t ion
worker employment
3. Percent change: Output per pro-
duction worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Percent change: Wholesale price
index
6. Average return on equity before
taxes
7. Average return on equity after
taxes
8. Concentration ratio -
1. Percent change: Gross hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production
worker employment
3. Percent change: Output per pro-
duction worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Percent change: Wholesale price
index
6. Average return on equity before
taxes
7. Average return on equity after
taxes
8. Concentration ratio
51
TABLE B-i .-Matrixes of simple cross-section correlation coefficients: TTTages
(N=19)-Continued
Variable
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1957-58
1. Percent change: Straight-time hourly
earnings 10 -0. 576 0.049 -0.440 0.392 0.484 0.549
2. Percent change: Production worker em-
ployment 1.0 .079 .880 -.009 -.030 -. 532
3. Percent change: Output per production
worker man-hour 1.0 . 527 .462 . 359 . 121
4. Percent change: Output
5. Average return on equity before taxes
6. Average return on equity after taxes
7. Concentration ratio
1.0
. 222
1.0
. 171
.883
1.0
-. 349
. 506
. 698
1.0
TABLE B-2.---Matrixes of simple cross-section correlation coefficients: Wholesale
prices (N=16)
VarIable 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 J 8
1947-48
1. 0
-
0. 423
1.0
-0. 361
-.439
1.0
0. 188
.647
.369
1.0
0. 093
.291
.024
.375
1.0
0. 029
.089
.404
.438
.339
1.0
0. 107
.110
.383
.458
.560
.888
1.0
0.333
-.161
.356
.206
.329
-.104
139
1.0
1948-49
1. 0 -0. 191 0. 152
-. 1.0 -.421
1.0
-
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.832
.133
1.0
0. 214
-.520
.328
-.416
1.0
0. 767
-.333
.534
-.045
.439
1.0
0. 888
-.239
.295
-.074
.335
.927
1~0
0. 595
-.125
.172
-.037
.287
.466
.615
1.0
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1.0
-0.371
1.0
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0.303
-.489
1.0
-0. 151
.781
.104
1.0
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-.050
.170
.073
1.0
0. 087
.735
-.092
.776
-.041
1.0
0. 126
.595
.097
.752
.113
.907
1.0
0.033
-.246
.288
-.013
-.019
.138
.256
1.0
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52 PRICES AND WAGES IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
TABLE B-2.-.L~1atrixes of simple cross-section correlation coefficients: TTT/iolesale
prices (N= 16)-Continued
VarIable 112 3 4 5 6 7 8
1950-51
1. Percent change: Gross hourly
earnings
2. Percent change :Production
worker employment
3. Percent change: Output per pro-
duction worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Percent change: Wholesale price
index
6. Average return on equity before
taxes
7. Average return on equity after
taxes
8. Concentration ratio
1. Percent change: Gross hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production
worker employment - -- -
3. Percent change: Output per pro-
duction worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Percent change: Wholesale price
index
6. Average return on equity before
taxes
7. Average return on equity after
taxes
8. ConcentratIon ratio
1. Percent change: Gioss hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production
worker employment
3. Percent change: Output per pro-
duction worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Percent change: Wholesale price
index
6. Average return on equity before
taxes
7. Average return on equity after
taxes
8. ConcentratIon ratio
1. Percent change: Gross hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production
worker employment
3. Percent change: Output per pro-
duction worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output -
5. Percent change: Wholesale price
index
6. Average return on equity before
taxes
7. Average return on equity after
taxes
8. Concentration ratios
1.0
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0. 416 -0.389
1.0 -.268
1.0
0.237
.912
.117
1.0
0. 101 0.311
.052 .733
-.415 -.174
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1.0 .294
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1.0 .409
1_0
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0. 007
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
0. 656
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1.0
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1.0
0. 173
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1.0
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0.383
1.0
0.203
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1. 0
0. 491
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1.0
0. 546
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0. 725
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1.0
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1.0
0. 595
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1.0
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1.0
0.160
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474
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0. 620
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145
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387
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PRICES AND WAGES IN MA1~WFACTURING INDUSTRIES 53
TABLE B-2.-ltlatrixes of simple cross-section correlation coefficients: Wholesales
(N=19)-Continued
Variable
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1.0
-0.173
0.492
0.264
-0.098
0.037
0.202
0.471
1.0
-.170
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.614
.449
.312
-.067
1.0
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1.0
-.418
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-.015
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1. Percent change: Gross hourly
earnings 1.0 0.390 0. 368 0. 597 0. 551 0.660 0.660 0. 541
2. Percent change: Production
worker employment 1.0 -. 456 .482 . 660 . 448 . 471 . 170
3. Percent change: Output per pro-
duction worker man-hour 1.0 . 521 -. 100 . 283 .241 .359
4. Percent change: Output 1.0 .397 . 627 . 617 .391
5. Percent change: Wholesale price
index 1.0 . 585 . 711 . 617
6. Average return on equity before
taxes 1.0 .883 .622
7. Average return on equity after
taxes - 1.0 . 820
8. Concentration ratios .__ 1.0
1957-58
1.0 -0.411 0.183 -0.172 0.308 0.521 0. 598 0. 577
- 1.0 .301 .895 -.047 -.024 -.020 -.441
1.0 .677 .329 .531 .398 .007
1.0 .115 .253 .207 -.281
1.0 .629 .276 -.114
1.0 .877 .525
753
1.0
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earnings 1. 0 0.457 0. 081 0. 618 0. 551 0. 655 0.629 0.370
2. Percent change: Production
worker employment 1.0 -.218 . 691 . 751 . 505 .340 -. 120
3. Percent change: Output per pro-
duction worker man-hour 1.0 . 452 -. 201 -. 032 . 178 . 223
4. Percent change: Output 1.0 . 587 . 469 . 449 . 161
5. Percent change: Wholesale price
index 1.0 . 448 .395 . 196
6. Average return on equity before
taxes 1.0 . 868 . 413
7. Average return on equity after
taxes 1.0 .495
8. Concentration ratios - . ._--- - 1.0
1955-56
1. Percent change: Gross hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production
worker employment
3. Percent change: Output per pro-
duction worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Percent change: Wholesale price
index
6. Average return on equity before
taxes
7. Average return on equity after
taxes
8. Concentration ratios
1. Percent change: Gross hourly
earnings
2. Percent change: Production
worker employment
3. Percent change: Output per pro-
duction worker man-hour
4. Percent change: Output
5. Percent change: Wholesale price
index
6. Average return on equity before
taxes
7. Average return on equity after
taxes
8. Concentration ratios
1.0
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APPENDIX C
TRENDS IN INDIVIDUAL INDUSTRIES RELATIVE TO ALL MANUFACTURING
In order to compare the movements of prices, wages, labor costs, and returns
to capital in each 2-digit manufacturing industry, indexes were computed show-
ing the ratio between the index of these variables in each industry and the index
of the same variables in all manufacturing. The resulting indexes are presented
in tables C-i to C-20. A brief description of each of them follows.
Wholesale Price Index: Industry
1. Wholesale Price Index =_____________________________________
Wholesale Price Index: Manufacturing
The basic wholesale price indexes are given in appendix A.
Index of Straight Time Hourly Earnings:
Industry
2. Straight Time Hourly Earnings=
Index of Straight Time Hourly Earnings:
Manufacturing
Index of Output: Industry
3. Output=
Index of Output; Manufacturing
The basic indexes of output are given in appendix A.
Index of Output per Total Worker
Man-Hour: Industry
4. Output Per Total WTorker Man-Hour=---
Index of Output per Total Wrorker
Man-Hour: Manufacturing
The basic indexes of output per total worker man-hour are given in appendix A.
5. Direct Labor Costs Per Unit of Output Per Total Worker Man-Hour
- Index of Direct Labor Costs/Unit of Output/TWMH: Industry
lndex of Direct Labor Costs/Unit of Output/TWMH: Manufacturing
Direct labor costs were measured by the index of gross hourly earnings of
production workers; no data are available for hourly costs of both production and
nonproduction workers. As a result, the iitdex of direct labor costs probably under-
states the rate of increase in total labor costs, since nonproduction workers have in-
creased considerably faster than production workers and since the average hourly
compensation rate for nonproduction workers is probably higher than the average
gross hourly earnings of production workers.
Index of Profits Plus Depreciation Plus
Depletion Per Dollar of Sales: Industry
6. Capital Costs Per Dollar of Sales=-
Index of Profits Plus Depreciation Plus
Depletion Per Dollar of Sales: Manu-
facturing
The basic indexes of profits plus depreciation plus depletion per dollar of sales
are given in appendix A.
It should be noted that the same limitations discussed in appendix A with
regird to comparability of scope and classificationméthod are applicable in equal
degree to the data presented here. It should also be noted that one important
part of costs-viz, costs of materials per unit-are not available. In a few in-
stances, indirect taxes may also represent a fairly important part of the final
price not accounted for by the costs included above.
Tables C-i to C-20 follow.
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All itona loon ohaltor----------.-- 112.L& 113.3 113.9 113.14 113.1 113.Lj 112.7 112.2 112.2 112.3 112.7 112.14
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Nondurablon loan food and apparol- 1114.6 1114.5 115.9 116.6 136.8 116.1 116.2 116.0 116.14 i16.o 117.1 117.9
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Durablon ].ona cara---------- 107.3 107.1 106.13 106.14 105.9 103.7 102.9 102.5 1Q1.8 . 101.0 101.1 100.3
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The GNP implicit price defiators for personal consumption are also presented.
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comparison with the CPI. (See table 13.)
TABLE 13 .-Implicit price deflators-Personai consumption expenditures
[Index: 1947-49=100]
1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1958
Total personal con-
sumption expend-
itures 97 102 101 103 110 122
Durable goods
Automobile and parts....
Other
Nondurable goods
Food and beverages
Clothing and shoes
Gasoline and oil
Other
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98 103 99 100 110 112 110 117
97 103 99 98 107 105 105 108
92 103 105 105 108 110 114 126
96 103 102 103 109 110 112 121
Services 95 101 104 106 111 116 121 135
Housing 95 101 104 107 112 113 122 134
Household operation__. 98 100 102 101 107 111 114 120
Transportation 93 101 106 110 115 120 128 144
Other 95 102 103 105 111 116 121 140
N0TE.-1954 constant dollar deflators transformed to 1947-49 reference base.
Source: "U.S. Income and Output," table VII-13.
IV. WAGES AND INCOMES
The service sector is, on the average, a low wage and income sector. In contrast
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employment, and price increases, incomes have not, in general, kept up relative
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in some financial positions, and in radio and television had high annual incomes
compared with other service workers.
Table 14 presents the average annual earnings of wage or salary employees in
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the 2 years. The data are for full-time equivalent employees. This allows valid
comparison between industries with differing proportions of part-time workers.
1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957
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126
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109 109
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108 PRICES AND WAGES IN MANDTACTURING INDUSTRIES
some cases, improve their standing vis-a-vis manufacturing. Most of the other
service industries experienced declines in relative annual incomes. This decline
took place despite the increase in service employment.
The unincorporated form of business organization is particularly important in
the service sector. Not only are there many small service establishments in the
drycleaning, laundry, barber and beauty shop industries, hut also many profes-
sional services are provided by individuals or partnerships.
The Department of Commerce gives an aggregate estimate of income for unin-
corporated firms in service sector industries, but not more detail. Their estimate
of the increase in incomes of active proprietors of unincorporated firms is 58.2
percent over the period 1947-53 and 5 percent 1953_58.8 The Internal Revenue
Service occasionally supplements its regular "Statistics of Income" series by
publishing partnership income data on an industry basis. Information is avail-
able for 1947-48 and 1953-54, plus preliminary data for 1957-58. Tabulated
below in table 16 is the ordinary income per partnership for each of the 3 years.°
TABLE l6.-Service sector: Partnership income selected years, 1947-58
1947
1953
1958
Percenta
1947-53
ge change
1953-58
All industries
Total agriculture, forestry, fisheries
Total construction
Total manufacturing
Trade total
Wholesale
Retail -
Total finance, real estate
Total services
$8,639
6, 092
9, 551
12, 722
8,688
16, 906
7.149
6, 354
10,285
$8,757
3, 380
11, 629
14, 801
8,518
15, 705
7,305
7,235
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5, 721
11, 809
13. 562
8,219
14, 654
6,906
6,262
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12.2
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Hotels
Total personal services:
5,675
14, 073
3, 141
16, 121
3, 028
36.8
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14.5
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Laundry
Photo studio
Barber and beauty
Funeral
Other
Businessservices
Autorepair
Miscellaneous repair
5,695
4,021
3,304
10, 428
3,625
6.522
4,282
5, 174
7,807
5,620
4,832
9, 393
3,176
15,766
5,888
6,806
5,759
4, 693
14, 147
5,119
15,905
5,579
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141.7
37.5
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64.6
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7, 991
6, 830
7,262
32.0
6. 3
Motion pictures
16, 308
5, 046
3, 049
36. 9
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Medical total
27, 178
8.
3. 898
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Physicians and surgeons
Dentists
Other
Legal services
Educational
Engineering and architectural
38, 184
14, 446
21,426
28,994
7, 132
19, 370
39, 610
47, 157
21, 046
37,386
32, 624
7, 007
33, 803
43, 077
53,033
25, 893
35,263
47, 736
12, 906
32, 482
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12. 5
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Source: "Partnership Income, 1947" Treasury press release No. S-2645, Wednesday, Apr. 4, 1951; "Part-
nership Returns," statistics of income, 1955, IRS publication No. 369; "Selected Financial Data," statistics
of income, 1957-58 (April 1959).
PART 2: PRICES, INCOME, EMPLOYMENT IN SERVICE SECTOR
COMPONENTS
The foregoing sections have discussed output, employment, prices, and incomes
in the service sector on an aggregate basis. In this section, a more detailed exami-
nation will be made of some of the individual components of the sector.
I. MEDICAL CARE SERVICES
A. PRICES AND EXPENDITURE
The Consumer Price Index for services related to medical, dental, optical, and
hospital care increased nearly 60 percent from 1947 to 1958. However, profes-
sional services prices increased much less than hospital prices, 35 percent as
contrasted to 125 percent. Table 17 contains the items in the medical care price
index.
Data from "U.S. Income and Output," table VI-4 and 1.1-2.
`Income per partner would be a preferable statistic, but the 1958 preliminary data do not include enough
information to make that computation. Income per partnership will not be comparable between years if
the average number of partners per firm changes.
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TABLE 17.-Medical service prices, 1947-58
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Price index
1947 1958
Percent
increase
Average annual rate of increase
1947-58
1947-53
1953-58
Medical services
General practitioner fees -
Surgeon fees
Dentist fees
Optometrist
Hospital room rates - -
Group hospitalization
Professional service plus
drugs 3
Medical care 4
All items
Service less shelter
4.2
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94. 5
96. 9
96.2
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96. 2
87.4
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95. 5
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139. 3
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143.8
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3.9
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Percent change 1953 to 1958.
3 Medical services less hospital rates and group hospitalization.
4 Includes drugs and prescriptions in addition to the services detailed above.
Source: BLS, Consumer Price Index.
Table 18 presents the record of consumer expenditures for medical care.
TABLE 18.-Current dollar consumer expenditure for medical care, 1947-58
Percent Increase
Aggregate
expenditures
Per capita
expenditures
Total medical care
Physicians
Dentists
Hospital care
Health insurance
125.4
93. 1
113. 5
209.2
165.0
86. 5
59.9
76.8
156.0
119.4
Source: Data from "U.S. Income and Output," table 1-4.
B. HOSPITAL CARE
The price-setting mechanism in hospitals is probably more nearly a cost-based
system than it is a system of demand oriented profit maximization.1° Few pri-
vate, nonprofit, voluntary hospitals make a surplus on current operation; fewer
still cover depreciation. Most are, at best, pleased to cover out-of-pocket costs.
The major cost item is personnel. On a per-patient-day basis, payroll costs
accounted for 60.8 percent of total costs in 1958, for 60.7 percent in 1954, and
54 percent in 1947.11 About two-thirds of the employees of hospitals are in
nonprofessional, nontechnical grade occupations.12
Employment costs have risen tremendously since 1947. The table below
shows the increase in employment and payroll costs for all private, general and
special short-term hospitals in the United States.
TABLE 19.-Increase in employment and costs, private short-term hospitals, 1947-58
- Percentage
Total expense per patient-day 154. 0
Payroll per patient-day~ 186.0
Full-time equivalent employees, number 82. 7
Full-time equivalent employees, per patient-day 44. 4
Source: "Hospitals," the Journal of the American Hospital Association, XXVII, pt. 2, p. 23 (June 1953)
and XXXIII, pt. 2, p. 384 (August 1959).
`° See pt. 3 below. Multiple regression analysis suggests a significant association between the level of
unskilled wages and the level of hospital rates.
See sources cited in table 19.
12 Ray E. Brown, "The nature of hospital costs," reprint from "Hospitals," the Journal of the American
Hospital Association, Apr. 1, 1956. Brown, does, however, mention a trend toward more professionalism
among technicians. The following section draws heavily on his article.
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110 PRICES AND WAGES II~ MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
Other factors tending to increase hospital costs cited by Brown are also important.
One factor is the nature of hospital costs. The major portion of hospital
operations costs are not variable. A hospital is typically fully staffed, at all
times ready for a peak load. Therefore, the occupancy rate is a critical factor
in average operating cost per bed. In studies cited by Brown, it is shown that
in a group of otherwise similar hospitals, those which had a better-than-average
occupancy rate had less than half t.he unrecovered overhead cost per bed than
did those hospitals whose occupancy rates were lower than average.
`While desirable on other grounds, the tendency toward shorter stays makes
syncronization of patient discharge and admissions more difficult; this leads to
empty, nonrevenue-producing beds. Again, the population pattern of the United
States is best served by an extensive system of smaller hospitals to supplement
those in metropolitan centers. Occupancy rates are lower on the average in small
hospitals than in large.13 Their costs per bed are therefore higher.
A second factor is the increase in number of special diagnostic and therapeutic
services provided by hospitals. Brown, quoting from the report of the Commis-
sion on Financing Hospital Care, offers this statement, "The relationship between
the level of per diem expense and the scope of hospital service ~vas apparent when
per diem expense was determined for groups of hospitals classified by number of
selected services they offered. * * *~ 14
C. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Income and employment data with respect to medical practitioners is not easily
available. Roberts 15 brings together data on the number of active practicing
physicians, dentists, and professional nurses. The table below compares his data
with Department of Commarce data on number of persons participating (includ-
ing active proprietors of unincorporated enterprises) in medical and other health
services. The declining proportion of professional personnel in the total illustrates
the growing importance of nonprofessional technical and other less.~r skilled personnel.
TABLE 2O.-Esnployment in medical services
Year
Active
physicians,
dentists,
and nurses
Persons
engaged in
medical and
other health
services
Physicians,
dentists, and
nurses as
a percent of
total
1930
1940
1950
1953
1955
Thousands
439.2
529.3
667.8
706.2
745.6
Thousands
749
841
1,237
1,413
1,551
58.6
62.9
54.0
50.0
48.0
Sources: Roberts, "Trends in the Supply and Demand of 1~Iedical Care," table 8, p. 70; "U.S. Income and
Output," table VI-16 and "Xational Income," table 28.
Income data for physicians and dentists is not regularly published. The
Survey of Current Business has conducted surveys of professional income, but
none have been published for recent years.'° Partnership income data has been
published by the Internal Revenue Service for the years 1947-48, 1953-54, and
for 1957-58, preliminary data. See table 16 above.
These data cannot safely be regarded as representative of average earnings
for individual doctors for two reasons:
(1) Data tabulated is for the partnership; if the average number of partners
per partnership is not the same in each year, the results will not be Strictly com-
parable between years on a per person basis.
(2) Many doctors, dentists, and other practioners are not members of partner-
ships. Sole proprietors and salaried medical practitioners experience different
earnings records.'7
13 Brown, op. cit. says, "During 1954 those hospitals with less than 25 beds averaged 51.6 percent occu-
pancy while those with over 300 beds averaged 71.8 percent occupancy."
14 Ibid.
1~ Markly Roberts, "Trends in the Supply and Demand of Medical Care," Study Paper 5 in the "Study
of Employment, Growth and Price Levels" (1959).
1~ See \villiam Weinfeld "Income of Dentists, 1929-48" Survey of Current Business, January 1950;
"Income of Physicians, 1929-49," ibid, July 1951; "Income of Lawyers in the Postwar Period," ibid,
December 1956.
`7 Ibid.
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II. TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES
A. PRICES AND EXPENDITURES
Prices in the transportation services group experienced a greater percentage
increase than any other service group in the Consumer Price Index from 1947
to 1958. Local transit fares increased 126.4 percent and led the other items
by a wide margin. In fact this item which accounts for 27 percent of the weight
of the transportation services index, contributed 40.5 percent of the rise. (See
table 21.) The utilities rose much less, in general.
TABLE 21.- Transportation service prices, 1947-58
Relative
impor-
tance,
Decem-
ber 1952
Price index
1947 1958
~
Percent
increase
Average annual rate of change
~
1947-58 1947-53 1953-58
Transportation services
Auto repairs
Insurance
Registration fees
Bus and transit fares
Railroad fares
Transportation total 1
Gas and electricity
Telephone
Postage
Water
3. 7
89. 3
174. 1
95. 0
6. 3
9. 1
3.4
1. 1
1.0
. 3
1.0
.3
95. 5
85. 0
97. 9
88. 8
89. 7
141. 9
171. 0
126. 9
201. 0
133. 2
48. 6
101. 2
29. 6
126. 4
48. 5
3. 7
6. 6
2. 4
7. 7
3. 7
4. 3
9. 8
1. 3
9. 9
5. 4
3.0
2. 8
3. 5
5. 2
1.9
11.3
1.9
1. 1
.2
.3
90. 6
97. 6
95. 3
97.4
2 101. 3
140. 5
117. 0
127. 4
139. 9
136. 4
55. 1
19. 9
33. 7
37. 5
34. 6
4. 1
1. 7
2. 7
2. 9
6. 2
1. 1
4.4
3.6
1. 6
1. 9
. 7
2. 1
6. 1
I Includes in addition to the services shown in detail above, new and used autos, tires, gasoline and
motor oil.
2 Index for 1953 annual average. Item was first included in index January 1953. Base: December
1952= 100.
Source: BLS, Consumer Price Index.
Consumers' expenditures for transportation services and utilities show divergent
trends. Expenditures associated with the operation of private automobiles
increased much snore than did expenditures for public transportation. Intercity
rail transportation suffered the greatest decrease, despite fare increases measured
by the Consumer Price Index of nearly 50 percent. The utilities experienced very
large increases in expenditure with comparatively little price runup. Tabulated
below is the percentage changes in consumer expenditures for various transporta-
tion services in the period 1947-58.
TABLE 22.-Expenditures for transportation services, percentage change, 1947-58
Item
Percent change In expendi-
tures
Aggregate
Per capita
Automobile repair and maintenance
Bridge, highway, and ferry tolls --
Auto insurance: premiums less claims
Local transit, taxi, and communtation
Intercity transportation:
Railroad
Bus
Airline - --
household utilities:
Electricity
Gas
Water
Telephone and other communication
132.6
233. 3
278. 2
-5.8
-38. 7
-9.3
410.0
.
196. 5
206.0
121.7
175.2
76. 6
175. 0
213. 6
-22.0
-49. 4
-25.1
324. 1
145. 1
153.5
83. 5
128. 1
Source: Data from "U.S. Income and Output," table 11-4.
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B. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
The public transportation industries, expecially local transportation and rail
passenger service, have suffered extensive declines in patronage.
A drop in volume and revenue has severe repercussions on unit profits. A
vicious circle can easily be set in motion. Higher rates, or an exogenous change
in taste, leading to a drop in volume, decreases revenue. Costs are unlikely to
drop as much as revenue because carriers are required to maintain service and
because of the heavy fixed cost elements in transportation industry cost structures.
Returns on assets or operations decline. Consequently, the carrier is eligible for a
further rate increase in order to restore profits to a satisfactory level. If the
same cycle repeats, repeated rate increases may take place with little improvement
in earnings.
Employment in both intercity railroads and local transit has been declining.
At the same time hourly wage rates and average annual earnings have been rising.
Average hourly earnings rose 87.7 percent and 73.8 percent, respectively, in the
class I railroads and the local transit industries. Employment, however, de-
creased 36.6 percent and 47.9 percent. Railway workers maintained and im-
proved slightly their annual income position relative to workers in manufacturing
industries; transit employees slipped somewhat. (See table 23 and 24.)
TABLE 23.-Employment: transportation and public utility services, 1947-58
[In thousands]
Local
transit
Class I
rail-
road
Tele- Gas and
phone electric
utilities
Local Class I Tele-
transit rail- phone
road
Gas and
electric
utilities
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
185
163
156
145
139
133
129
1,327
1, 191
1,221
1,276
1,226
1,207
585. 5
638. 9
638. 9
619. 5
644. 0
678.4
702.2
498.0
514. 9
526. 0
533. 3
543.3
554.2
1954 126 1, 065
1955 116 1, 057
1956 110 15, 043
1957 104 1 985
1958 96 1 841
-~
Percent change.... -47. 9 2_36 6
698. 8
706. 7
751. 2
768. 2
732. 4
557. 1
562. 1
569. 1
577. 2
578. 5
25. 1
-~-
2 41.8
1 Data for road with annual revenue above $3,000,000 before, above $1,000,000.
2 Percentage change, 1948-58.
Source: ELS, "Employment and Earnings."
TABLE 24.-Average hourly earnings: Transportation and public utility services,
1947-58
Year
Class I
rail-
ways
Local
transit
Gas and
electric
utilities
Tele-
phone
Year
Class I Local Gas and
rail- transit electric
ways utilities
Tele-
phone
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
$1.30
1. 43
1.57
1. 73
1.83
1.88
$1.22
1.33
1. 43
1.49
1. 56
1.65
1. 71
$1.45
1. 54
1.60
1.51
1.81
1.94
$1.20
1. 25
1. 35
1.40
1.49
1.59
1. 68
1954 $1.93 $1.81 $2.02
1955 1. 96 1. 87 2. 10
1956 2. 12 1. 96 2. 22
1957 2.26 2.05 2.33
1958 2. 44 2. 12 2. 46
-~=~--=~
Percent change.~ 1 87. 7 73.8 1 69. 6
$1.76
1. 82
1. 86
1.95
2. 05
~=
70. 8
1 Percentage change, 1948-58.
Source: BLS, "Employment and Earnings."
C. PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION
Auto repair prices and automobile insurance rates accounted for just under 50
percent of the rise in transportation service prices. Higher auto repair costs
begot higher insurance rates, although independent factors such as higher accident
rates impinge upon insurance. The number of automobiles has increased 81.3
percent from 30.7 million in 1947 to 55.7 million in 1957 so that on the average
there is now one car for every American family.18 Furthermore, automobiles
are now more complicated machines. An increase in the number and skill of
of auto repairmen may be necessary to attain a given level of performance or
safety.
IS "Automobile Facts and Figures," Detroit: Automobile Manufacturing Association, 1958
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Employment data for auto service or repair personnel is not published; nor is
regular wage series maintained. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has
2arried out community wage surveys covering auto repair personnel.19 Table 25
~o1lects data for all the cities and years that are available for auto mechanics.
I'he average rate was computed by weighting the cities according to estimated
lumber of mechanics employed.
TABLE 25.-Average hourly earnings, auto mechanics, selected years, 1947-58
1947 1948 1951 1953 1958
Atlanta 1.35 1.34 1.60 1.98 2.21
Baltimore 1.41 1.42 1.64 1.92 2.40
Boston 1.44 1.50 1.63 1.93 2.37
Cincinnati 1.35 1.55 1.70 (1) 2.42
Chicago 1.67 1.83 2.06 2.51 3.16
Cleveland 1.89 2.15 2.25 2.86 3.12
Detroit 2.05 2.09 2.26 2.78 2.97
LosAngeles 1.87 1.85 2.06 2.48 2.86
Kansas City 1.64 1.70 1.98 (1) (1)
Minneapolis-St. Paul 1.50 1.59 1.78 (1) 2.71
New York 1.53 1.64 1.87 2.21 2.67
Philadelphia 1.45 1.61 1.69 2.11 2.71
Pittsburgh 1.40 1.56 1.94 1.98 2.72
Portland 1.60 1.73 2.01 2.19 2.52
San Francisco 1.81 2.00 2.03 2.24 2.71
Seattle 1.63 1.80 2.01 (`) 2.54
Washington 1.46 1.48 1.81 (1) (1)
St. Louis (1) 2.08 1.93 (`) 2.83
Average wage 1.479 1.745 1.s55 2.328 f 2.761
I Not available.
Source: BLS "Community Wage Surveys."
Mechanics received a higher hourly wage than the average for all manufacturing
employees in the cities surveyed. There is, however, a significant rank correla-
tion 20 between the manufacturing wage rate and mechanics pay. Those cities
with high manufacturing wages also had high mechanics wages. There is also
a significant rank correlation 25 between the percentage increase in manufactursng
and mechanic wages from 1951-58.
III. OTHER NONPROFESSIONAL SERVICE INDUSTRIES
Much of the employment in the conglomeration called the service industries
is unskilled or at most requires little formal education. Often what training is
needed is supplied on the job or through apprenticeship programs. Entry and
exit of firms in this industry is relatively easy and small firms abound. This
group of service suppliers includes laundry, drycleaning, barber and beauty shops,
shoe repair shops, and other establishments which specialize in the care of persons
and their belongings. Domestic servants and helpers can also be included as well
as appliance and radio-TV repairmen, hotel workers, and similar groups.
* A. PRICES
The price changes measured by the Consumer Price Index for items in this
group have, on the whole, increased about as much as the average for all services
or a little less. However, there are exceptions. The price of men's haircuts and
television repairs rose considerably faster than the average of all service prices
while beauty shop service, drycleaning, and domestic service rose less than the
service index.22 Laundry prices rose almost exactly as much as the average.
See table 26.
19 These data are published through the regional offices of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In addition,
the National Automobile Dealers Association has begun a program of sampling their membership in order
to ascertain data on wages, and pay plans. The first survey was published in the association magazine,
NADA, in the June and July 1959 issues.
20 At the 0.03 level: 11 cities had both types of wage data for both years.
21 At the 0.01 level: correlation is for 1958, using 16 cities.
22 Preliminary analysis of the level of dry cleaning prices in a cross section of large cities showed strong
association (at 1-percent level) with the level of unskilled wages in those cities. Surprisingly, no such relation
appeared with laundry prices, but the partial correlation coefficients of personal care price and the unskilled
wages were significantly associated at 5-percent level. For description of data, analysis, and results, see
pt. 3.
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TABLE 26.-Other service prices, 1947-58
Item
Relative
impor-
tance,
Decem-
ber 1952
Price index
1947 1958
~
Percent
increase,
1947-58
Average annual rate of increase
1947-58 1947-53 1953-58
Other services I
Personal care 2
Man's hair cut
Beauty shop service
Beading and recreation 3
Movie admissions
Television repairs
Laundry services~
Drycleaning and pressing
Domestic service
2.7
2. 0
. 6
. 3
5. 3
1. 4
. 1
.8
1. 2
. 6
97.1
97. 6
94. 3
100. 4
95. 5
98. 4
105.4
94. 2
96. 2
98. 9
1~.6
128. 6
162. 7
124. 1
116. 7
135. 7
135.9
142. 0
128. 7
134. 5
33.5
31. 8
72. 4
23. 6
17. 1
37. 9
`24.7
50. 7
33. 8
36. 0
2.6
2. 5
5. 1
1. 9
1. 4
3. 0
3. 8
2. 7
2. 8
2.6
2. 4
5. 7
1. 0
1. 3
1. 7
4. 6
3. 1
3. 3
2.7
2. 7
4. 3
3. 3
1. 6
5. 2
45
2. 9
2. 1
2. 3
I Includes miscellaneous services (weight 0.8) such as banking, legal, funeral prices, not published sep-
arately.
~ Includes toilet articles in addition to the services detailed.
3 Includes newspapers, radio and television sets, toys and sports equipment in addition to services detailed.
Index for 1953 annual average; item first included in index in 1953. Base: December 1952.
`Percent change 1953 to 1958.
Source: BLS, Consumer Price Index.
B. EXPENDITURES
Consumer expenditures for services in this group have shown diverse trends.
While all have increased in absolute amount, on a per capita basis there has been
some decline in laundry and such small increases in some others that real consump-
tion has declined. Table 27 lists percentage changes in consumer expenditures
on the major items in the group.
TABLE 27.-Personal con sit nzplion expenditures, personal and ho use/i old services,
1947-58
[Percentage change]
Change in expenditure
Item
Aggregate Per capita
Drycleaning 38.3 14.5
Laundry 5.1 -12.9
Barber and beauty shops 88. 9 56. 5
Domestic servants 47. 8 22.4
Radio and TV repair 414.4 326.8
Movieadmissions -26.7 -39,3
Source: Data from "U.S. Income and Output," table 11-4.
Demand for drycleaning and domestic service was at least strong enough that
real output did not decline. Deflated drvcleaning cx penditures increased 3.4
percent, and domestic service 8.7 percent; laundry output, on the other hand,
dropped from 1947_58.23 Deflated expenditure on domestic services increased
only 8.7 percent.
C. EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES
Bureau of Labor Statistics employment and earnings data supplement the
data already presented on average number of full- and part-time workers in the
industries in this group. Tabulated below- is data for employment and hourly
earnings in laundry, drycleaning, hotel establishments. Manufacturing wage
rates are given for comparison (tables 28 and 29).
23 Based on aggregate expenditures deflated by the relevant CPI item index.
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TABLE 28.-Employment in unskilled service industries, 1947-58
[In thousands]
Year
Laundries
Dryclean-
ing
Hotels
Year
Laundries
Dryclean-
ing
Hotels
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
364.8
353. 7
345.4
342.1
342.7
340. 2
339. 2
153.7
151. 9
152.4
156.7
165.2
166. 0
166. 2
380.0
486. 0
476.0
471.0
479.7
493. 3
504. 3
1954
1955
1956._
1957
1958
Percent
change
331.4
332. 1
332.3
326.3
312.6
-14. 3
162.9
163. 4
165.8
169.8
167.4
8. 9
494.2
498. 7
515.4
531.0
511.3
34. 5
Source: BLS, "Employment and Earnings."
TABLE 29.-Average hourly earnings: Unskilled service industries, 1947-58
Year
Manu-
factur-
ing
Laun-
dry
Clean-
ing
Hotels
Year
Manu-
factur-
ing
Laun-
dry
Clean-
ing
Hotels
1947 1. 22
1948 1.38
1949 1.47
1950 1.55
1951 1.59
1952 1. 67
1953 1.77
. 77
.82
.84
.86
.92
. 94
.98
. 90
.96
.99
1.01
1.06
1. 10
1.14
. 66
.71
.74
.77
.82
.87
.91
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
Percent change..
1. 81
1.88
1.98
2.07
2.13
74. 6
1. 00
1.01
1.03
1.08
1.13
46.7
1. 19
1.20
1.26
1.30
1.32
46. 7
. 96
.99
1.03
1.08
1.13
71. 2
Source: BLS, "Employment and Earnings."
Data on the incomes of partnerships in this group is tabulated in table 16 above.
Income per partnership showed declines from levels achieved in 1953; laundry
and drycleaning declined 12.8 percent, barber and beauty shops by 2.9 percent.24
PART 3: CITY CROSS SECTION ANALYSIS
I. INTRODUCTION
One approach taken in this study of employment, prices, and wages in the
services industries was an analysis based upon a cross section of large cities.
Data were collected for a number of economic variables for the period 1951-58.
Since average price data is available for most cities only after 1954, some of the
analysis was limited to the 4 years, 1955-58.
The rationale upon which the cross section approach was based includes the
following considerations:
1. The service sector, perhaps more than in any other sector, is local in nature
and orientation. Typically, there are many small firms, often owned and operated
by a single individual.
2. Wage rates are not typically set as the result of nationwide bargains between
national unions and industrial associations. There are few, if any, regional or
national chains, such as there are in retail groceries. Even in those trades
which may have guild-type price and wage setting, there is probably little direct
coordination between cities.
3. In the professional services where national associations are powerful and
where entry is difficult because of training requirements and licensing laws, fee
schedules are not uniform in level.
24 See footnote to table 16 for sources and cautions about the data.
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II. THE DATA
A. CITY SAMPLE
The cities chosen were the 20 large cities for which the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics (BLS) publishes price data gathered in connection with compilation o
the Consumer Price Index. They are listed below:
*Atlanta Minneapolis
*Baltimore *New York
Boston Pittsburgh
*Cincjnnati *Philadelphia
*Chicago Portland, Oreg.
Cleveland ~ Louis
*Detroit *San Francisco
Houston Scranton
Kansas City Seattle
*Los Angeles Washington, D.C.
*Price data available for 1952-58.
B. PRICE DATA
A yearly average price for each of seven services categories was computed and
used in this Study. A simple arithmetic mean was used to summarize all the
price quotations within a category into an annual quotation. There are seven
prices for each city for each year.
The following are the categories and the items included:
Laundry service: Semifinished and finished.
Dry cleaning: Man's shirt, delivered and women's dress, cash and carry.
Automobile service: Brake relining and chassis lubrication.
Hospital room rates, per day rate for the following types of accommodation: Men's
pay ward, semiprivate room, private room. -
Medical service: Office visit to general practitioner, house visit by general prac-
titioner, obstetrical case, appendectomy (surgeon's usual fee excluding anes-
thetic).
Dental service: Tooth filling amalgam, one surface; tooth extraction without
complication, including X-ray.
Personal-care services: Man's haircut; shampoo and wave set, plain, short hair.
Monthly prices are given for the five largest cities; the remaining 15 cities are
priced 4 times per year such that five of them are priced each month. All data
came from the BLS and can be found in the publications mentioned below.
Data for December 1952 and for 1953-54 is from "Average Retail Prices:
Collection and Calculation Techniques and Problems," Bulletin No. 1182 (June
1955). Only the 10 cities marked with asterisks in the list above are reported.
Data for the full 20-city sample for 1955 is given in "Average Retail Prices,"
Bulletin No. 1197 (June 1956). Data for 1956-58 was taken from BLS worksheets
in the Division of Prices and Cost of Living and will be published in the future.
C. UNSKILLED WAGE RATES
There are no wage data available for workers in service industries on a city
basis. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does, however, publish periodically Bulle-
tins in the series entitled "Occupational Wrage Surveys." Data on wages in office,
professional, maintenance, and custodial occupations are given for a number of
large cities annually (or at times, less regularly) by these publications.
A composite unskilled wage rate was computed for each city and year using
data from the "Occupational Wage Survey" series. Six occupations were chosen
to be representative of the level of skill typically required in unskilled service
industries. The average of the wage paid to workers in these six occupations was
then used as an estimate of the level of wages paid in unskilled service industries
in the same city and year.
The six occupations chosen were male janitors, female janitors, male laborers
(material handling), female packers (shipping), office boys, and female file clerks
(class B), all employed in nonmanufacturing industries.
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For Washington, D.C., no "Surveys" have been published by BLS. The salary.
`or the lowest civil service grade, transformed to an hourly rate was used.
When data for a year was missing, the gap was filled by interpolating between
years. If more than 1 year was missing, the movement of manufacturing wages
was used as a guide.
Unskilled wage data was interpolated for the following cities and years:
Baltimore: 1953-54, 1956.
Boston: 1958.
Cleveland: 1953, 1955, 1957.
Detroit: 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957.
Minneapolis: 1956.
Portland: 1954.
St. Louis: 1958.
Seattle: 1952-55.
No unskilled wage data at all was available for Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Houston,
Kansas City, and Scranton. These cities were removed from all analyses involv-
ing wages.
D. MANUFACTURING WAGES AND INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT
Manufacturing wage rates were supplied by the BLS and are published in its
regular periodical, "Employment and Earnings." The May 1954 and May 1959
editions contain annual data which covers the entire period.
Employment is reported for the major nonagricultural divisions: manufacturing,
construction, trade, finance, service, government. The manufacturing wage data
was not published for the following cities and years: Cincinnati, 1952; Houston,
1952-54; Washington, D.C., 1952-54; Chicago and Cleveland, 1951.
E. LABOR MARKET CONDITION
Major labor markets are classified using a system which takes into account the
level of unemployment, the current labor supply and demand situation, expected
short-run requirements for labor, and seasonal factors.
Over the period, the classification scale has been changed; however, since this
analysis was based on cross-section data only, the noncomparability of the two
scales over time is of no importance.
The labor-market condition is reported bimonthly. The Labor Department's
ranking scheme was translated into numbers and the arithmetic mean of the 6
bimonthly rankings was used to represent the annual labor-market condition for
each city and year.
The data may be found in the periodical "Area Labor Market Trends" (and
its predecessor, "The Bimonthly Summary of Labor Market Developments in
Major Areas") published by the BLS Bureau of Employment Security.
F. POPULATION
Population estimates were taken from the annual May "Survey of Buying
Power" issue of Sale Management Magazine.
G. PRICE LEVEL
Since the Consumer Price Index is a measure of the change in prices in relation
to the base period 1947-49, divergences of the index reported for individual cities
can show only differential changes in prices. They do not necessarily show
differences which may exist in the level of prices among the cities.
To transform the price index from a measure of change only, into a measure
of price level, it is necessary to adjust the base-period level to reflect differences
in cost among the cities.
In 1946, the BLS conducted a study in which the cost in each city of a standard
bill of goods and services (similar in scope to the coverage of the CPI) was
determined.
BLS Bulletin No. 927, "Workers' Budgets in the United States: City Families
and Single Persons, 1946 and 1947," reports the results of the study. (See table
6, pp. 28-30 of the Bulletin.) The mean cost of the budget in the 20-city sample
was computed. The cost of the budget in each of the cities was then converted
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into an index with base equal to the average cost of the budget in the 20 cities.
The results are tabulated below.
TABLE 30.-Cost of a standard budget for a~ family o.f 4, selected sample of cities, 1946
[Index numbers]
Atlanta 101. 0 Minneapolis 104. 3
Baltimore 105. 0 New York 105. 8
Boston 106.7 Philadelphia 100.6
Chicago 104.8 Pittsburgh 103.6
Cincinnati 100.5 Portland 103.3
Cleveland 101. 8 St. Louis 106. 0
Detroit 105. 6 San Francisco 107. 1
Houston 95. 0 Scranton 98. s
Kansas City 97. 7 Seattle 109. 3
Los Angeles 103. 8 Washington, D.C ~---- 112. 0
NoTE--Base is average of cost of budget in all cities.
To this base was added the Consumer Price Index as reported by the BLS for
each city and year. The new index shows price change adjusted for differences
in price level in the individual cities.
H. NONWHITE POPULATION
Percentage of population which is nonwhite was taken directly from the "Coun..
try and City Data Book, 1956" (Bureau of the Census), table 3. The data refer
to the year 1950 and were collected in connection with the regular decennial
census.
III. PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS
The data described above were used in an attempt to gain understanding of
the variables and mechanisms important in price and wage making in the services
industries. The results are probably more suggestive than definitive for various
reasons mentioned below.
All data in a cross-section should represent simultaneous observations of all
variables in all elements of the sample. In the data used here, the observations
are considered to be annual averages. But some of the variables are averages of
12 observations; some of 6; some of 4 observations, not all of which refer to the
same date in all cities; some, in the case of unskilled wages, are only one observa-
tion per year. In years of rapidly changing conditions, the month in which the
"representative" observation falls might make h~portant difference in results,
especially when all the cities are not surveyed the same month.24 a
Errors of observation are probably quite high in much of the data used. While
the BLS does publish average price data drawn from their price observations for
the Consumer Price Index, it must be remembered that main concern of the BLS
is with measuring changes in price. If it becomes necessary to alter the sample of
establishments surveyed, it makes little difference in the index-making process if,
other things equal, the average price differs between the two establishments.
As long as successive monthly changes have been the same, the new outlet can
be linked smoothly into the index. The average price data may however show
an abrupt change.
Combining the labor-market index into an annual average suppresses much of
its sensitivity. If it were feasible to collect the rest of the data on a quarterly
basis, use of a quarterly labor market condition indicator would be better. Other
difficulties include the small number of service occupations for which data were
available, as well as the limited number of cities and years included.
Nevertheless preliminary results of what has been found to date are summarized
briefly here. Negative results as well as more encourging ones are indicated.
24a It is conceivable that something like the following could be true: assume that two cities in fact have
the same average wage rate and that in both cities the wage-rate increases in uniform, 2-cent-per-month
increments. Now, if the first city were surveyed in January and the second city in December, the second
city would show- a wage 24 cents higher than the first. Taking simple first difference would not solve the
problem because the given city is not always surveyed in the same month each year by BLS. Sometimes
the "annual" first difference might span an interval of less than a year, sometimes more.
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A. WAGES
The first general hypothesis for investigation was that the industrial composition
of the labor force, the labor-market condition, and the price level explain the level
of manufacturing or unskilled wages.
Three regressions were run. Two attempted to explain the level of unskilled
wages; one of manufacturing wages. The first regressed the level of unskilled
wages on the percentage of the total labor force accounted for by employment
in the service sector,25 the labor-market condition (LMC), and the price level.
The second regressed the unskilled wage level on the percentage of total em-
ployed in the services industries, the LMC, and the price level. The third re-
gression investigated the association of manufacturing wages on percentage of
the total labor force employed in industrial employment, the condition of the
labor market and the price level.
The coefficients of multiple determination (R2) associated with the manufac-
turing wage regression were significant at the 5-percent level for the years 1956-58,
and nearly so in 1955. The beta coefficients associated with the price level were
significant at the 5-percent level in 1955 and at the 1 percent level in 1957-58.
In addition, in 1957 and 1958 the beta for labor-market condition was significant
at the 5-percent level. (See appendix tables.)
On the other hand, the regression of unskilled wages on the variables named
above had no coefficients of multiple determination which were significant. The
betas associated with labor-market condition and price level were significant at
the 5-percent level in 1958 in the regression which included service sector employ-
ment as one of the independent variables. The regression involving.services in-
dustries employment as a variable had no significant betas. (See appendix
tables 1 and 2.)
B. SPILLOVER INVESTIGATION
If the level of unskilled wages cannot be satisfactorily explained by employ-
ment structure, labor market condition, or price level, another hypothesis is
available. That is the "spillover" thesis.
The form investigated here states that the level and change in unskilled wages
are associated with the level and change in manufacturing wages more than with
other explanatory variables.
The analysis was carried out using rank correlation methods developed by
Kendall.26 The coefficient of rank correlation is called tau by Kendall and will
be used throughout as a shorthand expression.
A sample of 14 cities was used, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago,
Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York, Philadelphia,
Portland, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Seattle.27
Level of unskilled wage on level of manufacturing wage
The results of correlation of cities ranked by level of unskilled wages and level
of manufacturing wages were extremely significant. The correlations were car-
ried out using data for the years 1951-58. The size of the sample is 14 cities for
each set of computations reported. Cities omitted were Cincinnati, Houston,
Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Scranton, and Washington, D.C.
The values of tau and the significance level associated with each one are tabu-
lated below:
Rank correlation coefficients
Year
value of
coefficient
Level at
which
significant
Year
Value of
coefficient
Level at
which
significant
1951
1952
1953
1954
0.7023
.7079
.6630
.6742
0.0006
.0003
.0006
.0006
1955
1956
1957
1958
0.5889
.7300
.7889
.6409
0.0024
.0001
.0001
.0009
23 That is, the services industries, finance and insurance, transportation and public utilities.
26 M. 0. Kendall, "Rank Correlation Methods," London: Charles Griffin & Co., 1948. The method set
forth by Kendall has the advantage over the simpler Spearman method for small samples. The distribu-
tion of tau tends to normality for samples greater than 10 and has been computed for values under 10.
27 It will be noted that some of these cities have interpolated unskilled wage rates for some years. The
first correlation reported below used both interpolated and uninterpolated data. No significant differences
arose, so interpolated data was used throughout.
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The levels at which the tau coefficients are significant is very high; since rank
correlation is a relatively weak method, however, little confidence can be placed
in results which are only marginally significant. These results tend to be sup-
ported by the simple product moment correlation coefficients which were computed
in connection with the wage regressions already mentioned.28 The simple cor-
relation between unskilled and manufacturing wages is significant at the 1-percent
level. Simple correlation between other variables is not significant even at the
5-percent level.
Simple correlation coefficients
1955
1956
1957
1958
Unskilled wage on-
Manufacturingwage
Labor market condition
Pricelevel
Manufacturing wage on-
Labor market condition
Pricelevel
`0.8187
.2241
.3027
.1743
.4910
`0.8037
.3398
.2720
.3783
.5011
`0.7426
.4578
.3046
.3768
.5225
`0.7340
.3711
.3365
.4885
.3365
1 Significant at 1-percent level.
Percent change of unskilled on percent change in manufacturing
Turning to correlations of cities ranked by percentage change in unskilled
wages on percentage change in manufacturing wages, two periods were chosen:
1951-58 and 1954-58.
The values are tabulated:
Year
Tan
Level at
which
significant
1951-58
0. 3626
.5385
0. 0409
.00453
1954-58
The connection for 1951-58 was significant at the 4-percent level; tau for the
later period was significant at more than the 1-percent level.
The tests carried out above seem to give support to the existence of a spillover
between unskilled wages and manufacturing wages in the cities studied.
It might be argued, however, that the strong association of level and rate of
change between the two classes of w-ages is observed because other, third factors
operate on both manufacturing and unskilled wages.
The following alternative hypotheses have been tested:
1. The level and rate of change in wages is associated with tile state of the labor
market within the city.
2. The level and rate of change in wages is associated with the concentration
of nonwhite population within the city.
3. The level and rate of change in wages is associated with the level and rate
of change in consumer prices within the city.
Wage rates on labor market condition
Cities were ranked by labor market condition and by level of unskilled wages
and level of manufacturing wages for the years 1952, 1955, and 1958-years which
covered both recession and high employment.
2S The number of cities included in the computation was 14. Washington, D.C., was included; Cleve-
land was not. Washington was dropped because the unskilled wage is not strictly comparable with the
other cities. Data for Cleveland became available at a later stage in the work.
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Values of tau and levels of significance are given below for both unskilled wages
and for manufacturing wages:
Year
Unskilled wages
~
Manufacturing wages
~
Level at
Tau which sig-
nificant
Tau
Level at
which sig-
nificant
1952
1955
1958
-0.1189
.1695
.0634
0.3156
.1841
.4562
0.1453
.2374
-.0586
0.2743
.1292
.3669
None of the values are high enough that we may, with confidence, reject the
null hypothesis, especially in view of the fact that the sign on the correlation
coefficient seems to shift from positive to negative with little logic.29
Apparently the level and change in wage rates were not importantly associated
with labor market condition in the city during this period.30
Wage rates on concentration of colored population
Cities were ranked according to the percentage of their population which was
found to be non-white in the 1950 Census and by level of unskilled wages.
Results of rank correlation analysis show the following values for tau and
significance levels.
Year
1951
1955
1958
Tan
0. 4505
Level at
which sig-
nificant
0.015
.2747
.2527
.095
.115
The results are significant for 1951 at 1-percent level, but increasingly less
so for the later years. This may reflect two things:
(1) The rank of cities ordered by color concentration may be increasingly
unrepresentative of the true order, the further in time one gets from 1950; or
(2) The level of wages may be becoming less sensitive to concentrations
of nonwhite population.
Correlating change in unskilled wages on color concentration shows the follow-
ing values of tau and significance levels. Values for percentage change per hour
are shown.
Period: 1951-58:
Percent change
Tau 0. 3406
Level at which significant . 0516
Unskilled wage change measured in percentage terms was somewhat significant
at about the 5-percent level.
3~ The significance level was computed from a one-tail distribution on the a priori notion that wageswould
be positively correlated with labor market condition. Since this did not turn out to be the cose, a two-
tailed test may be more appropriate. If so, the significance levels should be doubled and the results become,
a fortiori, less significant.
30 But note that of the six cities omitted because of lack of unskilled wage data, two cities, Scranton and
Pittsburgh. ranked 20 and 18, respectively, in the cumulative labor market scores. In 1958, ScrantOn also
ranked 20 (i.e., worst) in manufacturing wage level, but Pittsburgh ranked second, behind only Detroit.
It seems obvious that the industrial structure-coal versus steel-rather than labor market condition,
made the difference.
50505-80-9
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Some outstanding anomalies can be observed in the ordering of the cities.
Boston, New York, and Minneapolis-St. Paul were at the low end of the color
concentration and also had low unskilled wage levels.
The low wage levels in Boston and New York can undoubtedly be traced to the
foreign immigrants who tend to concentrate at ports of entry. Furthermore,
with respect to New York, the unskilled wage rank was worsened during the
period. In 1951, New York ranked fourth; in 1955 and 1958 it ranked ninth
(small numbers indicate high. wages). This experience matches the increased
PuertoRican influx. . Boston ranked .10th, 12th, 12th, also showing some de-
terioration. In the case of Minneapolis, no ready demographic explanation
comes to mind.. Possibly its relative isolation frOm other larg& cities helps kOep
wage rates low by lithiting nearby alternative opportunity. .
Price and price levels on wages . . . . . . . . . -
Correlations of . cities ranked by wages and annual Consumer Price Index
reveal: .. . . : . . .. .
1. The OPT and the price level have shown stronger association with .wage
levels as the decade progressed.
2. Manufacturing wages show greater association with the cost of living
than do unskilled wages. .
3. Using OPT, lagged 1 year,: improve~ the relationship in the ~asè of
unskilled wages throughout the .period. In the case of manufacturing, lag-
ging wages improved. .the association in :1954 and 1958, but made it worse
in 1951 and 1953~; : .. ~. . :
4. None of the values for tau were as great as they were for the correlation
of unskilled wages on manufacturing wages for similar years.
This analysis sii~gests that both classes Of wages appear to hO becotning mOre
sensitive to the. UPT and price level. Only in 195.8 were all correlation coefficients
(except one) significant at the 5-percent level: (See tabulated values.)
- Year :
.... ..
. . .
Unskilled
Manufacturing
Tan
. .
.
J~ve~~
which
siggificant
Tan
*. .
. . -
Levelat
which
. Si~iflCant
CPI on wages
1951
0.0324
1222
0552
.3445
0i82
1006
. 1889
.5058
.2747
.1868
. .3846
. 0.456
251
413
.045
371
330
. 181
.008
.095
.192
.036.
0.0738
2i 8
1878
.3667
0615
0559
.3000
.5337
. .
.3333
.2307
.2967
0.367
087
189
. . .035
417
413
.071
.006
,.
.0749
.138
.078
1953
1954
1958.._
~lPI lagged 1 year on wages: .
1951
1953
1954
1958
Price level on wages:
1951 .
.1953 -
1958 - .
These data tend to support the spillover hypothesis as outlined above. There
are some cautions which should be noted in generalizing to the services sector.
(1) The unskilled wage rate is a composite of rates for certain unskilled jobs
in nonmanufacturing industries surveyed by the BLS in a number of cities from
time to time.
(2) No test has been made of the validity of thisunskilled composite rate as a
representative of either the level or change in wages in service establishments in
the surveyed cities. .
(3) Existence of a direct causal mechanism between the levels of manufacturing
and unskilled wages has not been proved, only suggested.
C. PRICES
Each of the seven service category prices were regressed on the unskilled wage
rate, the labor market condition and the population for each of the four years
price data were available.
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The results can be summarized as follows:
1. Dry cleaning-The R2 was significant at the 5-percent level for every year.
The beta coefficients associated with unskilled wages were significant at the
1 percent level in every year.
2. Hospital care.-Significant R2 values at the 5-percent level were present for
all years. The beta coefficients for unskilled wages were significant at the
1-percent level every year. In 1957 and 1958 the betas associated with labor
market condition were significant at the 5-percent level and had a negative sign:
in these years cities' with relatively good labor-market conditions and relatively
high hospital rates were associated.
3. Auto repairs.-The R2 was significant at the .5-percent level in 1958. The
beta associated with population was significant at the 5-percent level in 1957 and
the 1-percent level in 1958. Larger cities and higher auto repair prices were
associated. The betas- for unskilled wages and labor-market condition were
also significant in 1958.
4. Medical care.-In 1958 the R2 was just significant at the 5-percent level.
The betas for unskilled wage and labor market condition were also just within
the 5-percent significance level. As with hospital rates, there was an inverse
relation between higher prices and poorei labor-market conditions.
5. Personal care.-None of the R2 values were significant at the 5-percent level.
But the betas associated with unskilled wages were significant at:that level each
year. No other betas were significant.
6. Dental care.-No R2 values were significant. There was weak and spotty
significance of the betas associated with unskilled wages: 5 percent in 1955-56
and 1958. - .
7. Laundry prices.-No beta or R2 values were significant. - . -.
In summary, the preliminary results reported are not completely at variance
with a priori notions about the relation of unskilled wages- and service., prices.
Hospitals, drycleaners, and laundries are, -in general, low paid, labor-intense
industries The medical and dental professions are not Auto repair and per-
sonal care are somewhere between. The results found here are strongly consistent
in the case of hospitals and drycleaning; satisfactorily so in the other .cases.
Only laundries were strongly out of place. . .. - . - :- .
APPENDIX - - . - - -` - -
DEFINITION OF SERVICES ITEMS INCLUDED -IN PERSONAL `-CONSUMPTION
EXPENDITURES IN NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTS
Clothing service
Shoe repair - - ` - -, -
- Laundry in establishments - - - . - . - -
Drycleaning and dyeing
- Other
Housing-Space rental value -of- - . - -` . -
Owner occupied nonfarm dwellings
- - Tenant-occupied nonfarm dwellings - - - - -. - - -
Farmhouses and other, i.e., hotels, clubs, etc. -
-Household operation: , - - . - -
Utilities Electricity, gas, water
- Telephone, telegraph, cable, -and wireless - . . - -
Domestic service
Other: Appliance maintenance, moving expenses, postage, premiums on fire,
-. etc., insurance -
Medical care and death expense: -
Physicians
Dentists - - - - -
- Other professional services: Miscellaneous curative and healing arts -
Privately controlled hospitals and sanitariums
Medical care and hospital insurance - -
Funeral and burial expenses - - - - -
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Personal business:
Brokerage charges and interest, investment counseling
Bank service charges, trust services, safe deposit box rent
Services rendered without payment by financial intermediaries, except life
insurance companies
Expense of handling life insurance
Legal services
Interest on personal debt
Other: Money orders, net union dues, classified ads. etc.
Transportation:
User-owned transportation:
Automobile repair, greasing, washing, parking, etc.
Bridge, tunnel, ferry, and road toll
Automobile insurance premiums less claims paid
Purchased local transportation:
Street and electric railway and local bus
Taxicabs
Railway commutation
Purchased intercity transportation:
Railway
Intercity bus
Airline
Other
Recreation:
Radio and TV repair
Motion-picture admissions
Legitimate theater and opera, etc.
Spectator sports
Clubs and fraternal organizations
Commercial participant amusements: Billiard parlors, bowling alleys, etc.
Parimutuel net receipts
Other
Private education and research
Relicious and welfare activities
Foreign travel and remittances
Source: "U.S. Income and Output," pp. 150-i, table 11-4.
DEFINiTIoN OF SERVICE INDUSTRY AS USED IN GROSS PRODUCT ORIGINATING DATA
Source: Standard Industrial Classification Manual.
Hotels and other lodging places: Includes commercial establishments and insti-
tutions engaged in furnishing lodging, or lodging and meals, and camping
facilities and space, on a fee basis.
Personal services: Includes establishments primarily engaged in providing serv-
ices generally involving the care of the person or his apparel, such as laundries,
cleaning and dyeing plants, photographic studios, barber and beauty shops, and
cleaning and pressing shops.
Private households: Includes private households which employ worl ers who
serve on or about the premises in occupations usually considered as domestic
service. Households classil~ed in this major group may employ individuals,
such as cooks, maids, butlers, personal secretaries, and manarers of personal
affairs; and outside worlers such as gardeners, caretalers, and other mainte-
nance worl ers. Laundresses performing work in their own homes or in the
homes of others are included.
Commercial and trade schools and employment acencies: Tusiness and commercial
education schools, civil service schools; placement arenoies; trade schools.
Business services: Includes establishments renderinc services not elsewhere
classifed to business enterprises on a fee or contract basis. (iSdvertising,
consumer credit reporting, duplicating, mailing and stenographic services,
services to buildings, news syndicates, etc.).
Miscellaneous repair services and hand trades: Includes establishments engaged in
miscellaneous repair services. It does not include auto repair, custom work,
and shoe repair.
Motion pictures: Includes establishments producin r and distributinc motion-
picture ifims, exhibiting motion pictures iii con-n erc.ially operated theaters, and
furnishing services to the motion picture industry.
Amusement and recreation, except motion pictures: Includes establishments
whose primary function is to provide amusement or entertainment on payment
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of a fee or admission charge, except motion pictures. (Including museums,
zoological gardens.)
Medical and other health services: Includes establishments primarily engaged in
furnishing medical, surgical, and other health services to persons. Associations
or groups primarily engaged in providing medical or other health services to
members are included, but not those which limit their services to the provision
of insurance against hospitalization or medical costs.
Legal services: Establishments engaged in offering legal advice or legal services
on a contract or fee basis, the head or heads of which are members of the bar.
Engineering and other professional services: Establishments performing services
by engineers, architects, accountants, artists, lecturers, and writers; also in-
cludes nonprofit educational and scientific research agencies.
Educational services: Establishments furnishing formal academic or technical
courses, and libraries.
Nonprofit membership organizations: Organizations operating on a nonprofit
membership basis for the promotion of the interests of the members.
TABLE 1.-Regression coefficients, manufacturing wage regression
Regression
coefficient
Partial cor-
relation co-
efficient
Beta so-
efficient
Standard
error of
beta
Value of
R2
Manufactusing wage on-
1955 industrial employment
Labor-market condition
Price level
1956 industrial employment
Labor-market condition
Price level...
1957 Industrial employment
Labor-market condition
Price level
1958 industrial employment
Labor-market condition
Price level~....._
0.0065
. 1081
.0285
. 0236
.0373
.0029
.0076
. 1705
. 0319
.0014
. 1925
.0335
0.4019
. 3134
~. 5748
~`. 9160
. 0751
. 1242
. 5217
~. 5670
~. 6676
.0923
~. 6785
~. 7004
0. 3952
- 3094
~. 5776
`~. 9122
. 0769
. 1272
.4070
~. 4895
~. 6060
. 0693
~. 7393
~. 6293
0.2598
. 2705
. 2373
. 1152
.2946
. 2935
. 1921
.2052
. 1950
. 2159
. 2310
. 1851
0.4389
~. 8478
~. 6093
~. 6531
* Significant at 5-percent level.
**Signjficant at 1-percent level.
N0TE.-For R2 to be significant at 5 percent It must equal 0.4660.
TABLE 2.-Regression coefficients, unskilled wage regressions
Regression
coefficient
Partial cor-
relation so-
efficient
Beta co-
efficient
Standard
error of
beta
Value of
R2
1. Unskilled wages on-
1955 service-sector employment
Labor-market condition
Price level
1956 service-sector employment
Labor-market condition
Price level
1957 service-sector employment
Labor-market condition
Price level
1958 service-sector employment
Labor-market condition
Price level__
Unskilled wages on-
1955 personal-services employment
Labor-market condition
Price level
1956 personal-services employment
Labor-market condition
Price leveL__
1957 personal-services employment
Labor-market condition
Price level
1958 personal-services employment
Labor-market condition
Price leveL..___
0.0061
. 1660
.0281
.0012
. 1153
.0171
.0010
. 1874
. 0256
.0150
. 1783
.0360
.0097
.1489
.0258
-.0042
. 1095
. 0165
-. 0096
- 1788
.0242
. 0110
. 1393
.0289
0. 1731
. 4133
.4549
. 0345
.3803
. 3291
. 0304
. 5741
.4818
.3287
~. 5989
* 5912
. 1088
.3942
. 4384
-. 0463
.3680
. 3262
-. 1174
. 5654
.4756
. 1089
. 5223
. 5286
0. 1715
.4661
. 5138
.0326
.3827
.3198
.0253
. 5841
.4638
.3433
~. 7554
*~ 6678
. 0997
.4181
. 4714
-.0424
.3634
. 3089
-. 0936
. 5571
- 4376
. 1002
. 5902
. 5370
0.3085
. 3246
.3180
.2983
. 2942
.2901
.2624
. 2634
. 2667
.3119
. 3193
. 2880
.2382
.3081
.3055
.2891
.2904
.2830
.2503
.2569
.2559
.2892
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TECHNICAL NOTE NO. 2
PRODUCTIVITY AND OUTPUT IN THE
POSTWAR PERIOD
(BY THOMAS A. WILSON)
129
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Technical Note 2
PRODUCTIVITY AND OUTPUT IN TilE POSTWAR PERIOD
By Thomas A. Wilson
I. INTRODUCTION
Chapter 3 of the 1'Staff Report on Employment, Growth, and Price Levels"
includes a discussion of the relationship between productivity and output in the
economy.1 Much of that analysis focuses on the effects of intersectoral labor
movements upon the rate of growth of aggregate productivity. The underlying
data for that portion of the analysis are presented in the report.
Conclusions drawn about the relationship between output and productivity
within the major sectors of the economy, however, were partly based upon new
data gathered and analyzed by the committee staff. This paper's purpose is to
present and discuss the productivity and output data obtained by the committee
staff, together with an analysis of the relationship between output and produc-
tivity within the manufacturing sector of the economy.
II. THE ESTIMATES
A. MAJOR SECTOR ESTIMATES
Table 1 presents output, man-hour input, and productivity indexes for the
major sectors of the economy. The reader must be forewarned, however, that
productivity estimates are only as reliable as the output indexes on which they
are based. Before using the productivity indexes for analytical purposes, the
output source materials, discussed below, should be consulted.
(1) Manufacturing estimates A: The output index is a Federal Reserve output
index for manufacturing, based upon 1954 value added weights.2 The man-hours
index is based upon Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, and is an estimate
of total man-hours.3 Estimate A was presented in order to compare a produc-
tivity estimate based upon an output index with a productivity estimate based
upon a real-value-added index. Estimate B is the published BLS index of real
value added per man-hour in manufacturing. These two estimates show general
agreement. Estimate B is the better of the two, and was therefore used in the
staff report.
(2) Mining: Output is a Federal Reserve index for mining based upon 1954
value-added weights. The man-hours index is based upon BLS data, and is
a total man-hours index.
(3) Public utilities: The output index is the Schultze output index. The
man-hours index is based upon BLS data.
(5) Railroads: Revenue traffic, man-hours, and productivity are based upon
the published BLS indexes.
(6) Other transportation: Output is an adjusted Schultze output index. Em-
ployment data is from BLS. No adjustment was made for possible changes in
average weekly hours.
(7) Contract construction: Output is an adjusted Schultze index. The man-
hours index is based upon BLS data, and is a total man-hours index.
(8) Agriculture: The productivity index is that published by BLS. The man-
hours index is based upon Commerce data for persons engaged in production, and
Census data for average weekly hours. The output index was obtained by multi-
plying productivity by man-hours.
1 See pp. 88-94.
2 It must be stressed that these are not official Federal Reserve output indexes.
3 Employment multiplied by average weekly hours, both as published in Employment and Earnings.
For manufacturing, mining, and contract construction, total man-hour estimates were constructed by
adding production workers, man-hours, and non-production-worker man-hours (assuming that nonproduc-
tion workers worked a 40-hour week).
4 All Schultze output indexes are from Charles L. Schultre, "Prices, Costs, and Output for the Postwar
Decade: 1947-57" New York, Committee for Economic Development, 1959, table 2, p. 29.
131
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(9) Services: The output index is based upon deflated net national income
originating in services, as published in U.S. Income and Output and Survey of
Current Business. The price deflator used was the implicit price deflator for
"Other consumer services." The employment index is derived from the number
of persons participating in production, as published in U.S. Income and Output.
No adjustment was made for changes in average weekly hours.
(10) Trade: The output index was obtained by combining the Schultze output
indexes for who1e~ale and retail trade, using as weights national income originating
in each sector in 1947. The man-hours index is based upon the number of persons
participating in production, as published in U.S. Income and Output, adjusted for
changes in average weekly hours as published by BLS.
Some of these productivity indexes appear to be fairly reliable; others are less so.
In particular, the indexes for contract construction, services, and trade should be
used with caution-i.e., one should not attribute much to small changes in these
indexes.
B. ESTIMATES FOR TWO-DIGIT MINING AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
Estimates of output, man-hour input, and productivity for all two-digit manu-
facturing and mining industries are presented in table 2. Each output index is
based upon weighted combinations of four-digit output indexes,5 the weights used
being proportionate to value added in 1954. The man-hours indexes are all based
upon BLS data, and are all total man-hours indexes.
Users of these indexes should bear in mind that the output and man-hours series
are not strictly comparable, and that, for a particular industry, these productivity
indexes mayO therefore be in considerable error. Another weakness of these
productivity indexes is that they are based upon gross output rather than real-
value-added indexes. Insofar as movements of the output indexes used deviate
from movements of real value added, the productivity estimates will deviate from
true productivity.
These estimates should consequently be interpreted with caution, especially if
used to analyze the behavior of productivity within a particular industry.
III. THE RELATIONsHIp BETWEEN PRoDuCTIvITy AND OUTPUT WITHIN
MANUFACTURING DURING THE POSTWAR PERIOD
The staff report states that output and productivity for the manufacturing
industries were positively associated during the postwar period.7 This section
will present the analysis upon which that conclusion rested.
Tables 3, 4, and 5 summarize the results of various correlations between output
and productivity that were computed using the data for manufacturing shown in
table 2. The results of these correlations are clear. Changes in productivity are
positively associated with changes in output, both for individual industry time
series and for cross sections for each year.
A comparison of changes in the rate of growth of output with changes in the
rate of growth of productivity for all two-digit manufacturing and mining indus.
tries is presented in table 7. The five manufacturing and four mining industries
which experienced a greater rate of growth of output after 1953 also experienced
a more rapid growth of productivity. Of the 17 manufacturing industries which
had slower output growth after 1953, 8 also had slower productivity growth.
The lone mining industry with a slower output growth also experienced a slowed
growth of productivity.
Evidently an acceleration or deceleration in the growth of output tended to be
accompanied by a similar change in the rate of growth of productivity.
Although the conclusion that changes in productivity are positively associated
with changes in output is a firm inference from these statistical analyses, one
cannot attribute all of the observed relationship between the two variables to a
one-way causal relationship. Whereas changes in output may stimulate similar
changes in productivity by increasing the rate of utilization of existing capacity
or by stimulating innovation within the industry, it is also clear that changes in
productivity will tend to result in similar changes in output. Improved pro-
ductivity, by lowering costs and prices, will lead to higher levels of output.
6 These were made availabie by the Federal Reserve, but are not official Federal Reserve output indexes.
`The four-digit output index (upon which the two-digit indexes are based) are gross output rather than
real-value-added indexes.
~ P. 91.
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In view of this identification problem, one must not stretch an analysis based
upon simple correlations too far.8 In particular, it would not be prudent to assume
that increases in output would yield gains in productivity in a period when output
was already pressing upon available capacity.
Since the available evidence suggests that considerable underutilization of
`capital existed during the 1956-57 boom,9 and since cross-sectional correlations
for both those years reveal a positive relationship between changes in output and
`changes in productivity, it seems safe to conclude that a further expansion of
output would have resulted in productivity gains.
8 Another weakness of simple correlation coefficients between output and productivity is due to the cor-
relation of errors of observation in output with errors of observation on productivity. If these observational
errors are large relative to the true variance of the series, they will cause biases in the correlation coefficients.
`See staff report, pp. 70-71.
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TABLE 2.-Output, man-hour input, and productivity
A. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951 1952
1953 1954
1955 1956 1957 1958
20
21
Food and beverages:
Output
Man-hours
Output per man-hour
Tobacco:
101
102. 18
98. 8
99
100.22
98.8
100
97. 59
102. 5
22
Output
Man-hours
Output per man-hour
Textiles:
98
105.85
92. 6
101
101. 04
100
93. 14
108.4
96
23
24
25
Output
Man-hours
Output per man-hour
Apparel:
Output
Man-hours
Output per man-hour
Lumber and wood products:
Output
Man-hours
Output per man-hour
Furniture and fixtures:
99
103. 79
95. 4
97
98. 72
98. 3
101
106. 60
94. 7
105
105. 35
99. 7
102
101.77
100.2
105
102. 49
102.4
104
90.86
105. 7
101
99. 52
101. 5
93
90.92
102.3
96
26
27
28
Output
Man-hours
Output per man-hour
Paper and allied products
Output
Man-hours
Output per man-hour
Printing and publishing:
Output
Man-hours
Output per man-hour
Chemicals:
100
102.31
97. 7
100
101.36
98. 7
96
99. 51
96. 5
104. 19
99.8
102
102. 38
99. 6
101
100. 67
100.3
103
93. 50
102. 7
98
96.26
101.8
103
99. 82
103.2
101
29
Output
Man-hours 102. 52
Output per man-hour 93. 6
Petroleum:
Output 97
Man-hours 98.82
Output per man-hour 8.2
103. 37
99. 6
104
102. 53
101.4
94. 11
107. 3
98
98. 66
99.3
[Index
103
97.86
105.3
105
100.06
104.9
108
99. 56
108.5
109
99.45
109.6
111
97. 48
113.9
116
99. 32
116.8
120
98. 47
125.9
111
102
90. 70
112. 5
108
92. 54
116. 7
112
93. 65
119. 6
110
91. 35
120. 4
105
90. 08
116. 6
108
91. 48
118. 1
88. 06
126. 1
111
109
100.45
108. 5
106
97. 03
109. 2
105
91.89
114.3
107
91. 14
117.4
100
80. 69
123. 9
110
84. 71
129. 9
82. 24
135. 0
108
102. 35
105. 5
106
102. 85
103. 1
111
105. 55
105.2
113
107. 84
104.8
109
105. 47
103. 3
120
106. 15
113.0
105. 83
114. 3
119
112
100.09
111.9
112
104. 92
106.7
110
98.47
111.7
114
94. 77
120.3
111
86. 71
128.0
123
92. 79
132.6
90.00
132.2
145
117
111.68
104.8
111
107.75
103.0
114
108.41
105.2
119
111.20
107.0
124
100.75
123. 1
141
110.18
128. 0
112.33
129. 1
118
106.01
111.3
125
111.23
112.4
119
108.85
109.3
130
115.05
113.0
132
113.63
116.2
149
119.22
125.0
156
122.52
127.3
108
102.48
105. 4
110
103.72
106. 1
110
105.39
104. 4
115
108.68
105. 8
120
109.29
109. 8
127
113.04
112. 3
116.53
115.0
124
100.63
123. 2
139
110.73
125. 5
144
112.93
127. 5
154
118.51
129. 9
153
115.72
132. 2
178
119.17
149. 4
191
122.27
156. 2
110
98. 75
111.4
122
104. 81
116.4
121
104. 70
115.6
129
107. 75
119.7
123
104.82
117.3
135
105. 08
1 128.5
104.77
133.6
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95. 15
126. 1
115
83.91
137.1
106
76. 89
137.9
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104.00
114.4
109
79. 19
137.6
139
109.17
127.3
155
121.00
128.1
134
116.97
114.6
199
123.11
160.9
139
103. 32
134.5
122
93, 37
130.7
123
80. 64
152. 5
103
71.55
144. 0
117
98.86
118.3
110
75. 38
145.9
132
102. 94
128.2
157
115.95
135.4
131
114.88
114.0
199
119.58
166.4
130
97.16
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1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1950
30 Rubber:
Output 106 102 93 111 110 117 126 118 138 132 132 123
Man-hours 108. 59 101. 69 89. 74 101. 14 108.07 109. 20 112.93 99.85 113. 49 109. 14 108. 14 97. 65
Output per man-hour 97. 6 100.3 103. 6 109. 7 107. 3 107. 1 111. 6 118.2 121. 6 120. 9 122. 1 126. 0
31 Leather:
Output 105 100 95 104 97 104 104 103 112 114 113 109
Man-hours 104. 58 101. 23 94. 18 97.94 89. 67 97. 06 96. 73 90. 95 96. 39 94. 94 92. 04 87. 63
Output per man-hour 100. 4 98. 8 100. ~ 106.2 108.2 107. 2 107. ~ 113.2 116. 2 120. 1 122. 8 124. 4
32 Stono, clay, and glass:
Output 90 104 97 117 129 123 126 122 130 145 143 135
Man-hours 101.86 103.62 94.52 103.65 111.87 106.54 109.03 102.73 111.35 113.50 109.94 101.33
Output per man-hour 97. 2 100. 4 102. 6 112. 9 115. 3 115. 4 115. 6 118.8 124. 8 127.8 130. 1 133. 2
33 PrImary metals:
Output 103 107 90 114 125 113 130 106 137 135 130 102
Man-hours 104.35 106. 06 89. 60 103.93 115. 48 106. 45 115. 63 97.84 112. 10 113.86 110.36 00. 42
Output per man-hour 98. 7 100.9 100. 4 109. 7 108. 2 106. 2 112.4 108.3 122. 2 118. 6 117. 8 112. 8
34 FabrIcated metals:
Output 102 104 93 114 121 117 132 119 130 130 133 122
Man-hours 105.05 103.53 91.43 105.88 115.93 113.77 124.65 112.56 121.01 121.15 121.62 108.90
Output per man-hour 97. 1 100. 11 101. 7 107. 7 104. 4 102. 8 105.9 105. 7 107. 4 107.3 109. 4 112. 0
35 Nonelectrlcal machinery:
Output 104 106 00 103 125 133 139 119 128 143 135 114
Man-hours 106. 40 105. 89 87. 71 94. 85 115. 87 118. 97 120. 71 106. 52 111. 40 121. 90 119. 79 100. 94
Output per man-hour 97. 7 100. 1 102. 6 108. 6 107.9 111. 8 115. 2 111. 7 114. 9 117.3 112. 7 112.0
36 Electrical machinery:
Output 103 102 95 116 129 156 174 159 176 195 196 172
Man-hours 108. 37 102. 43 89. 21 105. 10 121. 10 130. 12 145.34 127. 05 133. 57 143. 14 143.84 130. 44
Output per man-hour 95. 0 99. 6 106. 5 110.4 106. 5 119.9 119. 7 125. 1 131.8 136. 2 136. 3 131. 9
37 Transportation equipment:
Output 94 102 103 120 135 151 185 168 201 195 212 180
Man-hours 102. 14 101. 12 06. 75 104.84 125. 03 141. 43 162. 46 142. 37 154. 34 150. 68 153. 77 129. 00
Output per man-hour 92. 0 100. 9 106. 5 114. 5 108.0 106.8 113.9 118. 0 130. 2 129.4 137. 9 139. 5
38 Instruments:
Output 103 104 93 108 124 148 161 156 167 179 184 173
Man-hours 104.90 102. 52 92. 58 99. 77 119. 39 126. 33 135. 11 125. 93 128. 09 133.88 133. 65 123. 84
Output per man-hour 98.2 101. 4 100. 5 108. 2 103.9 117. 2 119.2 123.9 130. 4 133. 7 137. 7 139. 7
39 Miscellaneous manufactures:
Output 97 105 98 117 111 113 125 121 138 147 146 141
Man-hours 103.28 103.93 92.80 101.44 104.15 102.39 111.15 102.24 107.72 110.55 107.25 100.08
Output per man-hour 93.9 101.0 105. 6 115.3 106. 6 110.4 112. 5 118.3 128. 1 133. 0 136. 1 140. 9
TABLE 2.-Ouepug, man-hour input, and produclivity-ContjIlued
A. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES-ContInued
[Index numbers, 1947-49=100]
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B. MINING INDUSTRIES
10 Metal mining:
Output - 101 105 93 108 118 108 118 97 123 130 137 113
Man-hours - 101. 55 104. 05 94. 41 96.28 103.28 102. 55 107.80 95. 68 100. 58 107. 70 107. 14 86. 12
Output per man-hour 99. 5 100.9 98. 5 112.2 114.3 105. 3 109. 5 101. 4 122. 3 120. 7 127.9 131.2 `d
11 Anthracite mining:
Output 109 109 82 84 82 77 57 52 48 55 49 42 ~
Man-hours 108. 07 100.38 85. 56 87.99 79. 55 73. 03 58. 52 44. 69 38. 42 35.31 32. 41 21.82 ~rj
Output per man-hour 100.8 101. 6 97.0 96.4 104. 1 106. 8 100.2 120.3 131. 7 102.2 155. 2 204.3 rj
12 Bituminous mining:
Output - 114 108 79 93 96 84 81 70 85 90 88 72
Man-hours 110. 61 106.24 83. 15 83.07 84. 43 72.33 64.28 48. 53 52. 84 55. 51 54. 27 43.24
Output per man-hour 103. 1 101. 7 95. 0 112.0 113. 7 116. 1 126. 0 144. 2 160.9 162. 1 162. 2 166. 5 ~
13 Petroleum and gas:
Output - 96 105 99 108 122 125 131 131 139 146 146 137
Man-hours 94. 68 104.05 101.27 102. 09 109.98 117. 70 120. 06 121. 91 127.34 131. 50 131. 59 122. 01
Output per man-hour 101.4 100.9 97.8 105.8 110.9 106. 2 109. 1 107. 5 109.2 111. 0 111.0 112.3
14 Stone and earth:
Output 96 104 101 115 126 131 135 148 161 174 174 171 ~
Man-hours - 101.84 102. 65 95. 51 97. 02 106. 58 107. 93 109. 42 107.04 111.39 118. 72 115. 11 109.35
Output per man-hour 94. 3 101.3 105. 7 118. 5 118.2 121. 4 123. 4 138.3 144. 5 146. 6 151. 2 156. 4 -4
NOTE.-FOr a discussion of these estimates, see text.
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TABLE 3.-Correlation between output index and productivity index: ~!ross sections
for all manufacturing industries, 1947-58
correlation
coefficient Year-Continued
0. 5734 1953
1, 5885 1954
* 4377 1955
1~ 6230 1956
* 4401 1957
°. 5015 1958
Year:
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
I Significant at 1-percent level (r.oi=O.5614).
2 Significant at 5-percent level (r.es=O.443S).
N0TE.-Sample size=20.
TABLE 5.-Correlation between changes in output and changes in productivity:
Time series for the period 1948-58, all manufacturing industries
correlation
Industry: coefficient
20 Food and kindred products 0. 4170
21 Tobacco 1 7261
22 Textiles -. 1859
23 Apparel 2~ 7830
24 Lumber . 4420
25 Furniture . 3032
26 Paper and allied products 2~ 7843
27 Printing and publishing 2~ 7730
28 Chemicals 1 6905
29 Petroleum and coal products 2~ 8820
30 Rubber . 1288
31 Stone, clay, and glass . 2647
32 Leather 1, 7103
33 Primary metals 2~ 8785
34 Fabricated metals . 4241
35 Nonelectrical machinery . 4853
36 Electrical machinery . 3826
37 Transportation equipment . 3577
38 Instruments . 4289
39 Miscellaneous . 5682
1 Significant at 5-percent level (r.cs~0.6021).
2 Significant at 1-percent level (r.oi=O.7348).
NoTE-Sample size=11.
correlation
coefficient
0. 4017
2 4498
1, 6013
2 5474
2 4995
2 5192
TABLE 4.-Correlation between changes in output and changes in productivity: Cross
sections for all manufacturing industries, 1948-58 1
correlation correlation
Year: coefficient Year-Continued coefficient
1948 2 0. 6206 1954 0. 5168
1949 ~. 4625 1955 2 743~
1950 ~. 5296 1956 2 5633
1951 * 1089 1957 2 5900
1952 2 7424 1958 2 7505
1953 ~. 4614
1 These correlations differ from those in appendix B of Study Paper No. 21, which also relate changes in
output to changes in productivity, because of two differences in the variables used. The correlations given
here are based on absolute changes in the indexes of output and productivity; in addition, productivity is
measured in terms of output per total worker man-hour. In Study Paper No. 21, the correlations are based
on percentage changes in output and productivity and on productivity per production worker man-hour.
In addition, the correlations above are based on 20 industries; the correlations in Study Paper 21 are based
on 19; "Miscellaneous" was omitted from the latter cross section.
2 Significant at 1-percent level (r.o,=O.56i4).
Significant at 5-percent level (r.e~=0.4438).
NOTE-Sample size=20.
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TABLE 6.-Changes in productivity compared with changes in output: All manu-
facturing and mining industries, 1947-53, 1953-57
1947-53
1953-57
Average
annual
percent
change in
output per
man-hour
Average
annual
percent
change in
output
Average
annual
percent
change in
output per
man-hour
Average
annual
percent
change in
output
MANUFACTURING --
20 Food and kindred products 13% 11% 31/2 23/2
21 Tobacco 43/2 2 33/2 13/2
22 Textiles 13/2 43/s 1%
23 Apparel 1% 23/2 23/2 1%
24 Lumber 4 2 33/2 -l3/~
25 Furniture 15% 3 43~2 4
26 Paper and allied products 1~% 43/2 3% 43/2
27 Printing and publishing 13% 3 2 4
28 Chemicals - 5% 83/2 53/2 6%
29 Petroleum and coal products 33% 43/2 3
30 Rubber 2% 3 23/2 1%
31 Stone, clay, and glass - 23/2 43/2 3 33/2
32 Leather 1% -3% 33/2 2%
33 Primary metals 23/2 4 1% 0
34 Fabricated metals 11/2 4% 5% 3/2
35 Nonelectrical machinery 2% 5 ~5/~ _3%
36 Electrical machinery 3% 9% 33/2 3
37 Transportation equipment - 3% liVe 5 33/2
38 Instruments 73% 33% 33/2
39 Miscellaneous 43%
MINING
10 Metalmining 13% 2% 4 33%
11 Anthracite -36 11~/~ 11% -2%
12 Bituminous 33/2 -5% 63/2 2%
13 Petroleum and gas 13/2 5% 5% 2%
14 Stone and earth minerals 43/2 5% 5% 63/2
N0TE.-Aunual average percent changes are base year to terminal year compound growth rates.
TABLE 7.-Classification of manufacturing and mining industries, by changes in
growth rates of output and productivity
[1953-57 compared with 1947-531
Rate of growth of productivity
lower 1953-57 than 1947-53
Rate of growth of productivity
Higher 1953-57 than 1947-53
Rate of growth of output lower 1953-
57 than 1947-53.
13 Petroleum and gas mining -
21 Tobacco
24 Lumber
28 Chemicals
29 Petroleum and coal
33 Primary metals
34 Fabricated metals
22 Textiles.
23 Apparel.
30 Rubber.
31 Stone, clay, and glass.
37 Transportation equipment.
38 Instruments.
39 Miscellaneous.
Rate of growth of output higher 1953-
57 than 1947-53.
35 Nonelectrical machinery~ - -
36 Electrical machinery
10 Metal mining.
11 Anthracite mining.
12 Bituminous mining.
13 Stone and earth minerals.
20 Food and kindred products.
25 Furniture.
26 Paper.
27 Printing and publishing.
32 Leather.
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