This would lower the marginal productivity of hours worked sufficiently to offset the positive effects of increasing the number of hours per worker.

But, as the marginal productivity gains from such investment began to fall, senior managers survival and compensation continued to be tied to stock market performance.

According to this view, the total payment to a factor of production should not exceed its marginal productivity, so desirable outcomes should be promoted through tax incentives.

The limitation of this approach, however, is that a free market for labor will neither eradicate unemployment nor transform marginal, low end workers into high productivity, high wage employees.

Because of the capital utilization effect, the capital labor ratio would not, in fact, decline, and hence there would be no significant effect on the marginal productivity of hours worked.

The free rider problem is when the private marginal cost of taking action to protect the environment is greater than the private marginal benefit, but the social marginal cost is less than the social marginal benefit.

A coastal city that produces more GDP and boasts higher productivity and wages will attract more people to share in its prosperity until marginal productivity decreases. As some people migrate to the coast, fewer people will share the interior regions resources, causing their per capita income to increase.

Improving carbon productivity requires improving land productivity.

Some have collective shocks to the marginal utility of leisure.

The moral superiority of high marginal income taxes suddenly waned.

Chukchi Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

Productivity measurement

The East China Sea is a marginal sea east of China.

The Laptev Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

The Lazarev Sea is a marginal sea of the Southern Ocean.

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

Paying for Productivity

Today s Productivity Paradox

Raising agricultural productivity.

Improving farm productivity.

The Islamists are neither a marginal political group nor a terrorist force.

The market price of anything is always equal to the marginal cost.

So, as austerity undermines growth, debt reduction will be marginal at best.

A powerful argument for reserving capital punishment for murders is marginal deterrence.

But, as the marginal productivity gains from such investment began to fall, senior managers survival and compensation continued to be tied to stock market performance. As a result, many simply learned to manage their companies short term share price at the expense of attention to their products and customers.

The Productivity of Trust

The Coming Productivity Revolution

Automation, Productivity, and Growth

Forest health and productivity

Enhancing productivity and competitiveness

However, there's a lot of non political stuff happening that gets marginal attention.

For Microsoft, the problem is that the marginal cost of software is zero.

Yet, the participation of many developing countries in global trade has been marginal.

Most importantly, it is the source of livelihood for many economically marginal communities.

To put it in economics jargon, efficiency requires equating the marginal cost associated with allocation (both in acquiring information about the relative benefits of different projects and in monitoring investments) with the marginal benefits.

A Productivity Boom in Waiting?

Rising incomes require rising productivity.

Sustainable Development and Productivity Division

Even so, such marginal forces do not yet constitute a system for redressing grievances.

Whatever role Berlusconi chooses to play, it is unlikely to be a marginal one.

The Secretary General had recommended eliminating several reports, meetings, and activities of marginal usefulness.

Such investments would drive a decisive shift from low productivity to higher productivity sectors, boosting employment and wages.

Unit labor costs reflect compensation levels and productivity gains in productivity can offset the effect of wage growth.

A third factor is that the violence has become a marginal issue even within Thailand.

More broadly, the ECB s marginal lending facility is an indirect means of monetizing sovereign debt.