Worse still, labor has been displaced from more productive tradable activities (in manufacturing) to less productive informal activities (services).

Objective 3 application system productivity realization. Work with users to assess business needs and to solve business problems by technical means.

The Soviet authorities claimed that the Stakhanovite movement had caused a significant increase in labor productivity.

A larger capital stock would mean thicker markets, a finer division of labor, and a more productive economy.

Improving carbon productivity requires improving land productivity.

It was reported that during the first 5 year plan (1929 1932) industrial labor productivity increased 41 .

The Productivity of Trust

The theoretical effect on employment is unambiguously positive, because marginal workers will be more productive as they work longer.

The bulk of new employment has come in personal and social services, which is where the economy s least productive jobs are found.

In 2009, the United States had the third highest workforce productivity per person in the world, behind Luxembourg and Norway.

Their poverty causes low farm productivity, and low farm productivity reinforces their poverty.

To take an extreme example, labor productivity in Malawi s mining sector matches that of the United States economy as a whole.

Worse still, labor has been displaced from more productive tradable activities (in manufacturing) to less productive informal activities (services). In most Latin American countries, structural change has served to reduce rather than promote economic growth.

Staff productivity and cost elements should be considered together because staff cost structures differ across duty stations, in particular between field and Headquarters locations.

The Best, Brightest, and Least Productive?

Persistently weak labor productivity growth has created a situation in which unit labor costs do not fall, even if real wages remain stagnant or decline.

In supporting the authority of the General Assembly by enabling it to act more speedily and be more productive, we are supporting the very essence of the United Nations.

In an agricultural society, the difference between the richest and the poorest, the most productive and the least productive, was five to one. Why?

As a result, farm sizes would drop (as land was divided among ever more children), labor productivity would fall, and the poor would become even poorer.

From that standpoint, the CTC must work proactively to increase the productivity and effectiveness of its actions in the area of the provision of assistance.

Even in South Korea, labor productivity in industry is 118 of the OECD figure, but only 43 of the average for services.

Of course, once an apprenticeship program is operational, the larger benefits implied by a more productive economy and lower unemployment will become apparent.

A larger capital stock would mean thicker markets, a finer division of labor, and a more productive economy. A highly productive society based on a sophisticated division of labor was how you secured the wealth of nations.

Per capita GDP, which reflects a country s average labor productivity and its overall technological and industrial achievement, is a useful proxy to estimate latecomer s advantage.

Sufficient resources should be devoted to education and vocational training to ensure higher productivity and better pay, and cultural obstacles should be removed so as to ensure that women had full access to the labour market.

Migrants change jobs twice a year on average, as they grease the wheels of European labor markets with their mobility from less to more productive jobs.

New research shows that vaccines improve cognitive development in children, raise labor productivity, and contribute to a country s overall economic growth.

For them, a sound economy requires a sound production structure.

Biofertilizers, for example, hold great promise for increasing food productivity.

The basis for this claim was a single report from the World Wildlife Fund that itself cited only one study, which didn t even look at climate change, but rather at the impact of human activities like logging and burning.

This would not necessarily have been a bad thing if labor productivity (and earnings) were not substantially higher in manufacturing than in the rest of the economy 75 higher, in fact.

The country's macroeconomic policy would determine the criteria for wage growth, adjusted for inflation, to keep pace with growth in labour productivity in order to ensure that households genuinely benefited from economic progress.

Enhancing enterprise productivity and competitiveness (e.g. supply chain management) and Creating new enterprises (e.g. a start up company in software).

Today, the long hours of unpaid work that women perform each day searching for firewood and other energy sources rob them of time to engage in more productive activities.

Pastoralist systems are 20 more productive than traditional ranching methods.

Manufacturing productivity increased somewhat, owing to intense international competition.

We lack the factors required for a viable manufacturing base.

Others are experimenting with improving the productivity and quality of forestry products.

In countries where poor health is common, labour productivity suffers.

Persistently weak labor productivity growth has created a situation in which unit labor costs do not fall, even if real wages remain stagnant or decline. Indeed, despite a 1.3 drop in real wages in 2011, unit labor costs remained unchanged.

Moreover, European labor productivity figures are inflated by the fact that potential workers who would be less productive are much less likely to hold any jobs at all.

Iraq further asserts that Jordan's claim of a reduction in rangeland productivity is based on just two values for productivity in 1983 and in 1993, and that the claim is inappropriately extrapolated from the rangeland productivity claim.

This is a clear positive adjustment to redistribute the reduced income available under the conditions of the last five years, at the cost, however, of a major reduction in labour productivity.

BERLIN It seems obvious that if a business invests in automation, its workforce though possibly reduced will be more productive. So why do the statistics tell a different story?

Of course, mining cannot absorb so many workers, so the rest of the Malawian labor force must seek jobs in considerably less productive parts of the economy.