In this context, let us for example take the construction industry, which employs about 7.5 percent of those employed in the business sector – clearly a domestic industry – and  BIS central bankers’ speeches  3  examine the output per worker in the industry over a long period.
Productivity in the industry declined in the 1970s and 1980s, and remained at a standstill since the 1990s, in contrast with an increase in manufacturing productivity that accelerated following the program to expose the Israeli economy to foreign manufacturing imports in the 1990s (the Exposure Program), and the agriculture industry where there was a moderate increase in productivity throughout the period.