"Real export growth outpaced import growth in all four quarters of 2006, " Lazear said.

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Since Mr. Lazear was in the White House, obviously -- well, two things.

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Mr. Lazear, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 2006-2009, is a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a Hoover Institution fellow.

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Speaking at a press conference shortly after the president's remarks, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Edward Lazear, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, acknowledged as much.

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One, by Edward Lazear of Stanford University Business School, found that workers installing car windscreens increased their productivity when they were put on piece rates rather than on fixed wages.

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Perhaps the best indicator of what the report will include comes from remarks earlier this month by CEA Chairman Edward Lazear in a speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

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Lazear noted that unemployment fell to 4.5% in 2006 from 5% in 2005, adding that 2 million payroll jobs were added last year while real wages grew at a post-inflation rate of 1.7%.

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Lazear pointedly stated that he expects strong growth due to high productivity and low taxes, adding that "two trends are most important when looking at last year's economic picture and the scene as we move into 2007"--the labor market and export growth.

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