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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.
The productivity growth that was sustained through the downturn presented both an opportunity and a challenge.
The tax rate required to fund social-welfare benefits depends on three factors: the dependency ratio (the ratio of recipients to taxpayers); the replacement rate (the ratio of benefits to average wages); and the economic-growth rate (roughly, productivity plus population growth).
By increasing the “rate of real exchange,” inflation will help slow the Irish economy unless the growth of productivity is sufficient to maintain competitiveness.
US wage inflation and productivity are not the problems but commodity prices are.
All of the IMF-World Bank missions in the world are not going to overcome the problems of malaria, or drug-resistant tuberculosis, or even low agricultural productivity in the arid regions of Africa.
Multinational firms have access to abundant global supplies of relatively low-cost labor in multiple skill categories, so there is not much payoff to investments that increase labor productivity in high-income countries’ tradable sectors.
It is a benign form of global competition that increases productivity everywhere, provided that the markets for final and intermediate goods and services remain open.
The UN estimates that, over the long term, “Every dollar spent on TB generates up to $30 through improved health and increased productivity.”
Under the assumption of labor scarcity and diminishing returns to capital, economic growth cannot be sustained unless total factor productivity (TFP) increases significantly.
For example, collective bargaining not only balances the distribution of productivity gains between employees and employers, but also serves as an institutional platform for resolving labor disputes.
Poor air quality is now costing India at least 1% of GDP every year in respiratory diseases, reduced productivity, and increased hospitalization, and may be reducing Indians’ lifespans by three years.
If allowed to continue, Europe’s labor-market crisis will inflict lasting damage on an entire generation, with unforeseeable medium- and long-term effects on employment, productivity, and social cohesion.
Blinder and Watson suggest that five factors – oil shocks, productivity growth, defense spending, foreign economic growth, and consumer confidence – may together explain 56% of the growth gap.
Yes, the New Economy is delivering big increases in US productivity; no, the New Economy has not ended economic slowdowns or recessions.
In short, real gains in productivity due to the New Economy became exaggerated in the public’s mind.
From 1992 to 2011, labor productivity grew at an average annual rate of 0.9%, the lowest in the OECD.
Italy’s new leaders must address this situation by decoupling labor’s contribution to productivity growth from that of capital and total factor productivity.
But let us be conservative, and assume a long-run rate of productivity growth of only, say, 1.5% per annum.
The data, at least for the American economy, certainly shows that the new economy is generating extraordinary productivity increases.
The Shagari government quickly became mired in corruption and inefficiency, plunging the country into debt and a vicious cycle of unemployment, declining productivity, and social unrest.
The balance-of-payments crisis of 1966-7 reflected the tendency of British wages to grow faster than productivity, the consequent trade deficits, and foreign investors’ reluctance to finance a position they saw as unsustainable.
As a result, productivity has stagnated in Europe since 2007, whereas it has improved by more than six percentage points in the US.
It simply means that such “renationalization” would carry enormous costs, in the form of substantially reduced productivity and significantly lower output.
This implies a slowdown in reforms that increase the private sector’s productivity and economic share, together with a greater economic role for state-owned enterprises (and for state-owned banks in the allocation of credit and savings), as well as resource nationalism, trade protectionism, import-substitution industrialization policies, and imposition of capital controls.
Many have not adjusted as advanced economies’ weakness reduces the room for export-led growth; and many delayed structural reforms needed to boost private-sector development and productivity growth, while embracing a model of state capitalism that will soon reveal its limits.
The euro gave these countries access to cheap credit, which was used to finance wage increases that were not underpinned by productivity gains.
The German solution to this conundrum – keeping wage growth below that of productivity, thereby reducing unit labor costs – took more than a decade to yield results.
Of course, the weaker euro has fueled large surpluses in Germany and northern Europe, where unit labor costs are lower, relative to productivity.
Annual productivity growth has been stubbornly sluggish, rarely rising above 2% for much of the past two decades, reflecting both missed opportunities and declining cost competitiveness.
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