Classically defined, an increase in productivity either reduces labor, improves output, or both.
Amplats reported an annual loss for last year, hurt in part when labor issues disrupted output for two months.
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Compared to the estate tax provisions in current law, and after all economic adjustments, repeal of the estate tax would increase GDP by about 2.25 percent, private sector output and labor income (hours worked times hourly wage) by about 2.34 percent, and capital stock by 6.1 percent.
Over the last three decades, American factories have become vastly more productive in terms of output per hour of labor.
Both increase productivity, which is higher output per unit of labor input.
Reducing the payroll tax therefore raises the returns to work, which under normal circumstances should result in an increase in the supply of labor and an increase in total output, with employers offering jobs to the additional workers.
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Businesses usually increase productivity or output per hour worked by developing labor-saving devices and processes, in recent years that has involved computers.
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The firm said platinum and palladium markets would be in supply deficits this year, in part because of the reduced output in South Africa due to labor unrest.
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In the case of Brazil, firms appear to be confusing rising demand with rising inflation and, in the face of a record low unemployment rate, and a limited amount of qualified labor, hoard and overpay workers despite falling output.
Two years after the economic downturn began the United States was generating 97% of its economic output with only 90% of the labor.
After a decade of turbo-charged growth, output will necessarily decelerate, as the labor force approaches full employment and inflation forces the hand of President Dilma Rousseff. (Read Brazil: A Bubble In Labor Markets?).
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Released on Friday, the GDP report shows that Real Gross Domestic Product (the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the US) increased at an annual rate of 1.5 percent in Q2 of 2012.
The Labor Department reported Wednesday that productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, increased at an annual rate of 2.2% in the first quarter, higher than the 1.5% increase that had been expected.
Referring to the lost production in South Africa because of labor unrest this year, he said the lost PGM output could be as high as 1.2 million ounces versus 2011 production, referring to the combination of platinum, palladium and rhodium.
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Higher taxes on capital gains and dividends, abstracting from issues of equity and fairness, reduce real economic growth, cause weaker consumption and decreases in business capital spending, reduce employment, and labor force growth, and help bring about less potential output.
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Slightly more than half of the work force is in agriculture, but services are the major source of economic growth, accounting for more than half of India's output, with only one-third of its labor force.
The report reinforces the economy's vicious cycle of embattled labor markets leading to slow spending, which further contributes to weak business output, causing further job cuts.
The second way a payroll tax holiday is supposed to stimulate the economy is by making labor less expensive to hire, thus leading to additional hiring, more output, and increased incomes.
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Labor-saving inventions, technology, business processes, and trade all increase productivity output per hour worked and form the basis for higher wages as well as higher profits and the basis for our growing standard of living.
The model begins with an input-output table, which says that, for example, the steel mill industry uses the output of the iron ore industry, the electric utility industry, as well as labor and some lesser inputs.
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Well, the answer to that depended largely on whether Q (real output) was pretty much maxed out, meaning running at or near full employment of labor and other resources, or whether there was significant slack in the economy that might be taken up by greater spending.
He believes that positive supply-side forces will continue to damp the impact of strong demand on output prices and that productivity gains will continue to damp the effect of higher wages on unit labor costs.
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