Productivity
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Japan’s
productivity
slump permeates the entire economy; labor and capital
productivity
gains have nearly stalled in almost every sector – even in Japan’s signature advanced manufacturing industries.
Labor
productivity
in the transport-equipment sector, for example, is barely half that of Germany.
New research by the McKinsey Global Institute examines Japan’s advanced manufacturing, retail, financial services, and health-care industries in detail – and finds substantial untapped
productivity
potential in every area.
Doing so would require the growth rate of labor
productivity
to more than double, but this is an attainable goal.
Studies have shown that if more women had access to male-dominated occupations in Africa, worker
productivity
would rise by as much as 25%.
Moreover, the lack of adequate transport, communication, and energy infrastructure (85th) is undermining India’s
productivity
growth.
China transformed its agrarian economy by building a strong, labor-intensive industrial base, shifting workers from agriculture to manufacturing and construction, and improving
productivity
across all sectors.
Hunger and undernourishment damage the health and
productivity
of adults, undermining their ability to learn and work.
Moreover,
productivity
is low.
Myanmar needs a step-change in
productivity
growth.
Investment in the human capital of new cohorts (which is largely accumulated on the job) would benefit employers by increasing
productivity.
Low labor force participation is a result of the relatively low
productivity
of Puerto Rico’s unskilled workers.
Meanwhile, the US government could exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act, extend to it Chapter 9 bankruptcy coverage, and align the island’s welfare and labor requirements with its
productivity
level.
The problem is that, having neglected food security and the productive sectors of their economies for several decades, many developing countries’ governments now lack the fiscal capacity to increase public spending in order to increase food production and agricultural
productivity.
Previous studies have estimated that every dollar invested in vaccines saves $16 in terms of health-care costs, lost wages, and lost
productivity
due to illness, or $44 if the broader benefits of people living longer, healthier lives are taken into account.
That is true, and measured UK
productivity
growth has remained low, but nobody can be sure why.
Moreover, subtle differences between the US and UK in national income accounting should be taken into account in comparing
productivity
trends.
In Japan, long-standing structural problems, such as aging, labor-market rigidities, and a generalized
productivity
malaise, can be addressed only through the so-called “third arrow” of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reform agenda, which remains woefully incomplete.
Societies that adopted the capitalist system gained unrivaled prosperity, enjoyed widespread job satisfaction, obtained
productivity
growth that was the marvel of the world and ended mass privation.
In an environment where
productivity
gains and wage growth are already weak, as in Europe today, persuading workers to accept a cut in real wages may be tough.
While
productivity
in Japanese factories is the highest in the world, owing to robots and other types of automation, the
productivity
of Japan’s white-collar workers is the lowest among OECD countries.
Moreover, the delusion that the European Council can somehow call growth and
productivity
into being has provided a diversion to national politicians who are unwilling to push for unpopular decisions back home.
Empirical evidence indicates that these distortions in the market for services, which account for about two thirds of GDP, underlie most of the EU's
productivity
gap with the United States.
But southern Italy, which has not used the fiscal transfers from the north on which it has long depended to transform its economy or boost productivity, demonstrates how little impact this approach can have.
They argue that rapid financial-sector growth reduces
productivity
growth in other sectors.
But the rate of
productivity
growth in construction is low, and the value of many credit-fueled projects subsequently turns out to be low or negative.
While the manufacturing approach served China well for 30 years, its dependence on capital-intensive, labor-saving
productivity
enhancement makes it incapable of absorbing the country’s massive labor surplus.
Among the reforms will be tax policies aimed at boosting rural purchasing power, measures to broaden rural land ownership, and technology-led programs to raise agricultural
productivity.
The only logical explanation for this enduring lack of confidence, as Northwestern University’s Robert Gordon has painstakingly documented and argued, is slow
productivity
growth.
Before the crisis – and especially from 2003 to 2007 – slow
productivity
growth was being obscured by an illusory sense of prosperity in much of the world.
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