We are not addressing the high valued added skill gap in the US. So, we are not providing high wage, high productivity, high valued added jobs, especially in the engineering and IT industries.
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The optimist in me tells me that with unemployment so high, productivity so high, yes inventory restocking has occurred, but manufacturing is growing again.
"The Chinese market can't go from low productivity to high in 18 months, " admits Hanson.
True, productivity is high in Germany, but not high enough to compensate for those costs.
Its labour productivity scores high in cars per man-year, but the company has too many factories.
Productivity is high enough for Mike MacCarthy, head of the Cape Film and Video Foundation, to proclaim that the Cape is destined to become the film-making capital of Africa.
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 rise in productivity and wages is a great boon for workers in high-productivity jobs.
"The Chinese market can't go from low to high productivity in 18 months, " admits Hanson.
Investors, by contrast, love the new members for their low wages, high productivity and simple taxes.
Jorge Perez of Manpower, an employment-services firm, says disabled people frequently have unusually high productivity.
The economy's bounciness still owes more to cheap labour than to high productivity.
If being centered is so important, how can we ensure we remain in this precious state of high productivity more often?
That is, the important elements that constitute a nation are: being disease free, wealth, high productivity, harmonious living and strong defence.
Also, in the mobile computing category, the market for PCs which realize high productivity is expected to steadily grow, particularly in emerging markets.
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But he notes that whereas Singapore's success rests on high productivity, Panama's growth has come from accumulating capital in the form of infrastructure.
The Cray XC30 supercomputer is made possible in part by Cray's participation in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) High Productivity Computing Systems program.
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The new strawberries are bred by crossing UK and international varieties that contain desirable traits such as being disease resistance, high productivity and temperature tolerance.
"High productivity is not about finding some best practice, " says Nalbantian.
And the reason why productivity is so high is because of the vast amount of capital and machinery that each US worker gets to work with.
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Also boasting high productivity, Bank Internasional Indonesia (No. 245), which has to make the most of its relatively small headcount - 5, 800 - spread among 170 branches.
Software, connectivity and devices enable high productivity for mobile workers.
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High productivity is increasingly valuable in tough economic times.
With productivity at historically high levels and employers asking for ever more time worked and bringing on temporary workers, this suggests that current employees are being squeezed for all they can effectively produce.
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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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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.
Lazear pointedly stated that he expects strong growth due to high productivity and low taxes, adding that "two trends are most important when looking at last year's economic picture and the scene as we move into 2007"--the labor market and export growth.
Globally, water is saved if agricultural products are traded from regions with high water productivity to those with low water productivity.
There's also the question of how productive today's high-productivity workers really are.
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