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New economic policies and institutions were invented in the belief that a more rationally and humanely organized economy would deliver higher productivity and wages, greater job satisfaction, lower unemployment, wider participation, and milder slumps.
Most Continental Europeans, however, believe that their economic model is better in terms of productivity, quality of jobs, and stability than America's system.
A study by the OECD last year seemed to confirm the Continent's superior productivity.
If these persons were employed to the extent such workers are employed in America--through liberalization of labor markets or through wage subsidies (as France and Holland have done on a modest scale)--European labor productivity would be pulled down markedly.
Moreover, the US productivity edge arises not because Americans are more nimble, but because the US passes up safe productivity gains (through investing more capital in existing product lines) in favor of higher expected productivity gains through research and development--and new technologies that may fail.
Productivity in both Europe and America might gain, and America's edge might be narrowed.
Indeed, as a share of the economy, R&D investment is now at its highest level on record, which bodes well for future productivity growth.
In reality, total factor productivity, the best summary measure of the pace of technical change, has been stagnating since 2005 in the United States and across the advanced-country world.
Besides, the two primary factors behind long-term economic growth are the size of a country’s working-age population and its productivity.
China has a significantly larger population than the US does, so it stands to reason that it will surpass the US in nominal size at some point (unless it were trapped in a permanent state of poor productivity).
In urban areas, where indigenous workers tend to lack immunity to malaria, occasional episodes of the disease result in reduced productivity.
When there is sufficient excess supply in the economy, promoting supply-side productivity is practically useless without efforts to boost demand.
Better indicators would have revealed the highly negative and possibly long-lasting effects of the deep post-2008 downturn on productivity and wellbeing, in which case policymakers might not have been so enamored of austerity, which lowered fiscal deficits, but reduced national wealth, properly measured, even more.
As the urbanization process continues, connectivity, proximity, and diversity will accelerate knowledge diffusion, spark further innovation, and enhance productivity and employment growth.
But untreated or undertreated conditions requiring surgery also hurt economic productivity.
But reforms that focus more attention on the importance of surgery would boost economic productivity and help create more equitable health care for everyone.
Meanwhile, the economy suffers from reduced productivity.
But the unscientific standards and regulations that she defends in the name of the global public actually harm the environment and public health, stifling the development of environmentally friendly innovations that can increase agricultural productivity, help clean up toxic wastes, conserve water, and supplant agricultural chemicals.
Economic growth results from increases in labor productivity caused by technological advance and industrial upgrading.
High-income countries, already on the cutting edge of productivity, must earn their increases through technological and organizational breakthroughs; as a result, their typical growth rate is about 3%.
Developing countries, however, could potentially accelerate productivity growth, and thus GDP growth, by borrowing technology from advanced countries – that is, tapping the latecomers’ advantage, as China has done.
Those who predict a slowdown in China are correct to look at its per capita GDP, which is a reflection of a country’s average labor productivity and thus the level of its technical and industrial advancement.
Given adverse demographics in the advanced world, slowing productivity, and rising pension obligations, it is very hard to know what the endgame of soaring debt would be.
Many economies need to fix the financial sector and restore credit, while many more need to raise productivity in order to boost growth and create jobs.
Its economy was one of the OECD’s worst in terms of productivity growth in the 1980’s; a decade later, Australia was in third place.
Structural reforms to boost productivity will also be crucial to ensure Europe’s economic recovery and the survival of its social model.
Running in PlaceSANTIAGO – A billionaire with a Harvard degree runs for President of Chile promising reforms to enhance productivity and competitiveness, and wins.
Investing in the green sector would contribute to Europe’s long-term productivity, while providing productive cross-border capital flows to complement structural rebalancing within peripheral countries.
And a slowdown in productivity growth, together with excessive leverage and persistent public-sector underinvestment, may be undermining medium-term potential economic growth.
To be sure, some modern service activities are capable of productivity convergence as well.
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