The rise in productivity and wages is a great boon for workers in high-productivity jobs.
There's also the question of how productive today's high-productivity workers really are.
Described by 20th-century economist Arthur Lewis, this is the point at which excess labor in low-productivity industries has been fully absorbed into the high-productivity industries.
The focus has been on low-cost productivity improvements, rather than high-cost, big bets.
Reconciliation of massive high-tech investment and relatively slow productivity growth in service industries remains an important task for proponents of the new-economy position.
Likewise, low growth that is below trend in an economy with a high trend rate of growth (perhaps because of a fast-growing labour force or high productivity growth) will feel like a recession and will cause unemployment to rise.
And so high-density development patterns have the same kind of productivity-enhancing benefits that free trade does.
And all leave the problems they purport to address--sluggish productivity, poor communication, sagging morale, high turnover--essentially untouched.
The high-powered Surface, in fact, is the most-aligned to productivity in the field.
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Featuring a large 23-inch touch screen with high-definition widescreen capabilities, the high-performance ZX6900 Series is ideal for enhanced entertainment and other productivity applications.
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Its labour productivity scores high in cars per man-year, but the company has too many factories.
Everyone acknowledges that high technology is immensely expanding productivity, but bean counters haven't figured out in this service-cum-high-tech economy how to measure that.
"Today's announcement isn't just about faster trains - high-speed rail will create up to 30, 000 station-supported jobs in Manchester and help to drive productivity in the region, bridging the economic gap between the North and the South, " he said.
This is the basis of the Balassa-Samuelson theory which holds that average prices will be higher in countries with higher productivity (ie, high GDP per head), because higher wages will push up prices in labour-intensive goods and services.
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Canon has included many features on these high-quality yet affordable printers that help increase overall usability and productivity.
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Jorge Perez of Manpower, an employment-services firm, says disabled people frequently have unusually high productivity.
The company attributed increased costs to a combination of high inflation in Argentina and Chile, lower-than-expected contractor productivity, schedule extension and engineering, and planning gaps.
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Surface comes pre-loaded with full (not trial) versions of high quality Microsoft productivity apps Word, Excel and Powerpoint, so the basics of productivity are covered.
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The new Aspire One AO751h lets customers attain a new level of productivity and efficiency with its large 11.6-inch high-definition screen and full-sized keyboard.
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As work sponsored by the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research Program has shown quite well, boosting energy efficiency in high-tech industries offers huge economic side benefits in terms of increased reliability and productivity.
In another interesting presentation, Alan Shalloway, CEO of Net Objectives, suggested that the reason for this is that Scrum is essentially a bottom-up approach to work, which is highly effective for generating high productivity at the team level.
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However, while the world has been obsessed with high-end smartphones, Nokia has been seeding the emerging markets with inexpensive smartphones designed as productivity tools, creating an enormous installed base with strong brand leadership.
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