Chart: Relative productivity of U.S. trading partners, 1973–2011

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Relative productivity of U.S. trading partners, 1973–2011

Note: Bars show trading partners' productivity as a share of U.S. productivity.

Source: Author's analysis of United States International Trade Commission Tariff and Trade DataWeb and the Penn World Table (Heston, Summers, and Aten 2011). Reproduced from Mishel et al. (2012), Figure 4AA.

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