The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
In this time-period there has been a large-scale introduction of undocumented workers into the construction labor force. They are a quarter of some construction labor categories. Perhaps using undocumented subcontractors may play a role in lower productivity growth (cheap, unstable, and relatively unskilled labor) or maybe just distorting the statistics.<p><a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/EW-Construction-factsheet.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/...</a>