In 1995, for instance, real sales per employee rose 10% while non-farm productivity rose only 0.2%.
Prices fell, productivity rose and volume began to keep pace with trucking for the first time in years.
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At the same time, productivity rose 3.9% while unit labor costs fell 1.5%.
After all, 2010 productivity rose 3.9% while unit labor costs fell 1.5%.
As productivity rose wages did not, thus lowering unit labour costs over time.
The thinning payrolls led the fourth-quarter productivity rose by 3.2%, ahead of the 2.0% consensus estimate, with unit labor costs rising by a moderate 1.8% on an annualized basis.
In a more encouraging sign, fourth-quarter productivity rose by 3.2%, ahead of the 2.0% consensus estimate, with unit labor costs rising by a moderate 1.8% on an annualized basis.
Value-added per person, a proxy for productivity, rose sharply in this sector, but the number of jobs actually declined between 2000 and 2008.
On the other hand, its growth in the 1990s reflected a big improvement in productivity, which rose by over 2% a year in the 1990s.
Productivity per industrial worker rose by 4.2% last year, which supports the idea that increased investment is paying off.
Manufacturing productivity in that quarter rose by 2.9% compared with a year earlier.
With that, the Strathclyde economists conclude that productivity in Scotland probably rose faster, or fell by less, than the rest of the United Kingdom.
Science and technology delivered new methods, and productivity of people and land rose.
Productivity in manufacturing, however, rose more than twice as fast as in services.
Luckily for Konka, the workers began to accept the new contract system as productivity and thus wages and bonuses rose.
Productivity in the manufacturing sector, which has been recovering from a slump, rose 6.4% in 1999 -- the fastest productivity in the sector since a 6.9% gain in 1971.
On a more positive note, productivity growth remains surprisingly good: it rose by 1.8% in the year to the third quarter.
For the full year, nonfarm productivity increased about 1 percent and unit labor costs rose 0.7 percent, the government said.
According to data release today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), productivity (i.e. worker efficiency) rose 6.1% from the first quarter of 2009 to the first quarter of 2010.
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In another ominous sign that the U.S. economy is slowing, labor productivity decreased 0.3% in the second quarter, while first quarter productivity was revised from an increase to a negative reading and input costs rose.
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