Bell says he's seen a real increase in productivity from having fast access to information.
This represents an enormous increase in productivity, output per hour worked on the farm.
On investigation, 9.5% of the increase in productivity was down to home employees working more hours.
This increase in productivity means that economic growth no longer produces the jobs bonanza it once did.
This pressure creates an inexorable economic problem: Wage increases consistently outpace inflation with no increase in productivity.
They claim the new branch design should generate a roughly eight-fold increase in productivity, and please customers.
In general its hard to get a competitive market to respond to an increase in productivity by producing less.
Classically defined, an increase in productivity either reduces labor, improves output, or both.
Companies with engaged workforces report 87% reduction in employee turnover, 57% improvement in discretionary effort, 37% less absenteeism and 26% increase in productivity.
But it is impossible to know for sure whether a jump in share prices reflects an increase in productivity growth or a bubble.
Railroads eliminated 55 percent of their track over the last 60 years, yet tonnage handled has risen 5.3 times, for a twelvefold increase in productivity.
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His first moves were to allow private farming (result: a major increase in productivity) and to create special economic zones that would allow private business and even foreign investment.
Russia is facing a very serious problem over the next 20 years that will require either a significant increase in productivity or large immigration to stave off a collapsing economy.
If you look at the relationship between the increase in productivity in the American economy and the increase in compensation, what you find is that beginning around the 1980s, there was a widening gap between productivity and compensation.
Mr Corrigan's victory over the unions in the docks war led to a four-fold increase in productivity per worker at Patrick's freight terminals in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, the three eastern ports that handle the bulk of Australia's trade.
Assuming that Professor Baumol is correct (and I certainly think he is but what does that matter?) then we should gain both the equity of all having access to health care while also enjoying the greater increase in productivity, in innovation, that markets do bring.
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Mars has said that an extra one million metric tons, or 1.1 million short tons, of cocoa will be needed to satisfy global demand by 2020 if no serious efforts are put in place to increase productivity in nations such as Ivory Coast, where farmers are already turning to alternative crops such as rubber or abandoning their small holdings altogether.
No matter who wins the U.S. presidency, the gradual increase in economic productivity will eventually gain momentum.
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This suggests that an increase in employee productivity was a byproduct of the recession as much as lost jobs were.
Also, in the economy apart from durables manufacturing, capital deepening more than explains the tiny increase in labour productivity all by itself.
At a time of massive and rapid increase in agricultural productivity, when natural resources still seemed limitless to the casual eye, it changed our understanding of the environment and of our role in it.
The mechanism is that it is easier to increase productivity in manufacturing (or agriculture) than it is in services.
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Peter Nguyen, founder of Literati Institute is resolving to increase productivity in a big way by making a big change.
It was no surprise to me that a few entrepreneurs want to increase productivity in 2013, but the solutions to do so were very unique.
Mandating a fixed threshold will also have the perverse effect of lessening incentives to increase productivity in health care and get lower prices from insurers, physicians and hospitals.
"The key factors are an increase in output, productivity and order books due to increased demand, " said Melinda Johnson of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, which carried out the survey.
It is more difficult to increase labour productivity in services than it is in manufacturing thus as real incomes rise we would expect the costs of services to rise relative to the costs of manufactures.
The only possible economic justification for Mr Greenspan's views is that the new economy has produced a productivity miracle: a permanent increase in the underlying rate of productivity growth that is capable of being sustained through a downturn.
Meanwhile, ever since Al Gore launched a training initiative to increase the productivity of air traffic controllers in 1998, productivity has continued to fall.
These safeguards, which have been largely modeled on successful practices in the private sector, will increase stability, productivity, and certainty in Federal contracting by avoiding the disruption and disarray caused by the use of trafficked labor and resulting investigative and enforcement actions.
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