Rather than seek government help, firms are encouraged to raise productivity and improve quality.
They are also the firms most likely to raise productivity, a basis for economic growth.
An unbelievable opportunity to raise productivity while creating unprecedented opportunities for businesses and workers.
Such measures should raise productivity growth, but wage restraint will still be needed to restore competitiveness.
Mr Mankiw's example of the Indian radiologist shows how the internet could help lower costs and raise productivity in health care.
Performance-related pay is widespread in private firms, where managers regard it as an effective way to motivate staff and raise productivity.
It would put Americans to work quickly and raise productivity in the long term, a Keynesian kick with benefits for years to come.
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He has been making noises, rarely heard in the days of the Delors commission, about the need to cut costs and raise productivity.
The initiative was designed to encourage more face-to-face communication with customers and co-workers, raise productivity, or provide a break from the ever-filling email inbox.
That means structural reforms to raise productivity, fiscal reforms to boost growth and a strong monetary stimulus, all at once, to shock the economy back to life.
After Mr Nyerere's resignation in 1985, his successor, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, attempted to raise productivity and attract foreign investment and loans by dismantling government control of the economy.
Policies have focused on short-run changes and gimmicks recall cash for clunkers and first-time home buyer credits rather than on creating conditions that are favorable to investment that raise productivity and wages.
It seems driven by an ethic of developing protocols that will raise productivity, and thus demand for higher skilled, higher paying, jobs, without driving up taxes, cost of labor, or cost of other inputs.
Without the option of a currency devaluation, countries such as Spain, Portugal and Italy have no alternative but to restrain labour costs and bring in supply-side reforms that raise productivity, especially through the freeing of labour markets.
Peng Dingding, a Beijing-based economist, is worried that, at a time when China needs to invest more and raise productivity, policymakers are instead obsessed with stimulating domestic demand in the mistaken belief that the country can eat, drink and consume itself to prosperity.
Clusters are good in any field because they boost productivity and innovation, and cluster policy seeks to reduce constraints and encourage externalities to raise the productivity of competition.
More variable pay might also increase the incentive for employees to raise their productivity.
There remains plenty of scope for the mortgage industry to raise its productivity.
To solve the pensions crisis, European governments need to get more of their citizens into work, postpone their retirements, and raise their productivity.
Second, firms are apt to respond to an inflow of highly-skilled immigrants by investing more, which can raise the productivity and wages of low-skilled workers.
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First, high-skilled immigrants do not compete directly with low-skilled Americans, they complement each other, so that an increase in the former group is likely to raise the productivity and wages of the latter.
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As the tax hike obviously would not raise worker productivity, employers would be unwilling and unable to bear the tax, and it would be passed on to workers in the form of reduced wages or benefits.
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But he also says they raise the nation's productivity, raise the earnings of lower skilled workers and pay more in taxes than they use in services.
None has been bold enough to push through liberalising structural reforms to raise growth and productivity.
The hardest task will be to raise Japan's productivity to offset the looming manpower shortage.
Not least, the revisions to productivity and profits raise questions about the level of share prices.
In such cases, providing the same or more service with a smaller work force represents the productivity increases that raise our stand of living.
This is going to raise healthcare costs, and lower productivity across the medical marketplace.
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These should raise quality of life, enhance productivity, and provide an economic boost.
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