ECONOMIC GROWTH: STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 9 (2)Ibid., Part E Decade averages computed from annual data underlying five- year moving ine(1)+line(2)(1929 dollars per person) line(2) 18902snCm、sm+w,2 rces. From 1889-1918, the labor force figures were fir and adding armed force and adding armed forces. le7,col.(1).1944-53 supplied to the author for 1934 and 1944. The given data ar 78d -e ditn plated tiom137-g by mo erment ot estimates by Schmoker, o), ci 1944-53: Extrapolated from 1939-48 on basis of estimates kindly supplied by J.w eighties itn esrf relate es cisl9-28- 2100), combining man- hours per capita and capital per employed in 1929 1 1)(cents per dollar of cap Index of NNP+index of total input of resources(1919-28=100). put per capita declined slightly between the seventies and the present. This resulted from the counteraction of two trends. The labor force ratio, that is, the ratio of labor force to population, grew about 25 per cent as a result of changes in the age composition of the populatio because of the shift of people from farms to cities, and because the great increase in the participation of women in work offset the with- drawal of young people to school and of elderly men to earlier retire- ment On the other hand the reduction in working hours more than unterbalanced the increase in the labor force ratio te(National ent between the 1870 s and the 1950 s the ours of work. The appearing in Kuznets"Long-Term Changes"extended an extra decade on the basis of