Estimates from Productivity South Africa suggest that multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth has been fastest in the Agriculture, forest & fishing industry and slowest in General Government services. Unit labour cost (ULC) growth since 2000 has been fastest in the Electricity, gas and water industry and slowest in Agriculture, forest & fishing industry. These estimates are a lot higher than estimates from alternative sources (here for MFP and here for ULC). We will be doing comparisons across data sources in future posts.
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MFP is measured as the amount of output produced by combining labour
and capital, and ULC is measured as total compensation of employees per unit of output.
