No Signs of AI in the Productivity Data
Total factor productivity (TFP) measures how much output the economy produces from a given quantity of labor and capital. It is what remains of growth after accounting for more hours worked and more machines installed. When firms produce more without adding inputs, TFP rises.
- ▪Total factor productivity (TFP) measures how much output the economy produces from a given quantity of labor and capital.
- ▪It is what remains of growth after accounting for more hours worked and more machines installed.
- ▪When firms produce more without adding inputs, TFP rises.
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| Original publisher | Apollo |
| Canonical URL | https://view.e.apollo.com/?vawpToken=7L5HV5YJ6JNUHBYA6QBXXEV6CY.120045&utm_source=mce&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=701Dp00000017sOIAQ&utm_content=https%3a%2f%2fview.e.apollo.com%2f%3fvawpToken%3d%25%25tokenized_vawp_metadata%25%25&utm_id=76effdac4c9a922585b0715a3796d544&mce_id=208988442 |
| Publication time | Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:39:55 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-05T16:47:40.820Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-05T16:47:40.820Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | fE-hUwhhSwIg · 1 stories |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Total factor productivity (TFP) measures how much output the economy produces from a given quantity of labor and capital. It is what remains of growth after accounting for more hours worked and more machines installed. When firms produce more without adding inputs, TFP rises. For that reason it is the closest available proxy for technological progress and for genuine improvements in how inputs are combined. Labor productivity, or output per hour, is a different concept. It can rise for three reasons: workers are given more or better equipment (capital deepening), the composition of the workforce shifts toward higher-skilled labor or TFP improves. Only the third reflects true innovation.
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