Or, if you prefer, Greek labour productivity needs to rise very strngly and very quickly.
Labour productivity soars as poor economies shift workers from agriculture to a growing manufacturing sector.
Its labour productivity scores high in cars per man-year, but the company has too many factories.
These increased labour productivity faster than other areas of the economy could absorb that newly surplus labour.
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As a result of these jobs cuts and concessions won from unions, labour productivity has risen by one-third.
Labour productivity has soared, but the result could be a poisonous combination of deep recession followed by jobless recovery.
First, recent economic reforms have contributed to a sharp improvement in labour productivity.
The committee expects labour productivity growth to resume slowly, helping to bring inflation back to target in the medium term.
Labour productivity is rising faster than the ability of other areas of the economy to absorb that newly surplus labour.
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McKinsey reckons that India can double its growth in labour productivity to 8% a year and increase capital productivity by 50%.
Modest investments, such as installing scanners in food shops, could eliminate 30% of the difference between Brazil's labour productivity and America's.
Labour productivity continues to grow, with non-farm output per hour increasing by 1.1% at an annual rate in the second quarter.
Also, in the economy apart from durables manufacturing, capital deepening more than explains the tiny increase in labour productivity all by itself.
America's steel industry boasts average labour productivity of less than four man-hours per ton of steel down from about ten man-hours in 1980.
Labour productivity - output per head - has also been astonishingly weak.
One common explanation is a want of investment which directly affects labour productivity.
The team identified a clear and significant association between investments in human capital in each period and a country's subsequent growth and labour productivity.
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States with looser labour- and product-market regulations enjoy higher labour productivity.
Another way of looking at the same thing is that as, say, labour productivity rises, capitalists are able to make greater profits from the labour employed.
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To the extent that many of Europe's new jobs are for lower-paid (and hence lower-skilled) workers, this trend may, at least in the short term, dampen labour productivity growth.
For the two to have similar growth rates thus requires Japan's labour productivity, measured in terms of output per head, to rise by 2% a year faster than America's.
True, it is more difficult to operate in hot climates than in temperate ones, and disease and pestilence do nothing for labour productivity, but these are hardly spellbinding insights.
Yet taxation is far from the only factor that affects firms' decisions about where to go labour productivity, proximity to suppliers, language, and the boss's whims all play a part.
Switzerland's taxes and spending are lower than otherwise, and its labour productivity higher, because the Swiss can vote on fiscal issues, says Lars Feld of the University of Heidelberg.
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The incredible surge in labour productivity that took place.
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Think that the labour productivity mismatch has been solved?
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After falling in the first half of the year, American labour productivity (output per hour) was 2.3% higher in the third quarter of 2011 than in the same period a year earlier.
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It is more difficult to increase labour productivity in services than it is in manufacturing thus as real incomes rise we would expect the costs of services to rise relative to the costs of manufactures.
The report makes a strong case for broadband as a driver of economic growth and new jobs, citing country case studies and reports by leading consultancies that point to increased employment opportunities, higher labour productivity and a strong stimulus to GDP.
Multinational firms are a lot more productive than purely domestic ones, according to economists Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and Helen Simpson, in a working paper for the Institute for Fiscal Studies and there is some evidence that operations owned by foreign multinationals have higher labour productivity than those owned by British multinationals, partly because they invest more.
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