Most ICT related productivity gains could be achieved in these areas.

Cost increases were limited by technological advances leading to productivity gains.

Unit labor costs reflect compensation levels and productivity gains in productivity can offset the effect of wage growth.

The Committee encourages further measures to achieve cost effectiveness and productivity gains.

That encouraged investment spending, which in turn drove productivity gains and output growth.

Suddenly, economists (especially in the United States) began to measure substantial productivity gains.

At present, productivity and efficiency gains imply fewer jobs per unit of output.

98. Emphasizes that management restructuring should produce clearly defined gains in productivity and or economies

Decreasing regulation and productivity gains appear to be directly linked in the modern retail sector.

Removing regulatory barriers across markets could thus be expected to result in considerable productivity gains.

So is higher productivity the way out? Even assuming that governments could identify and implement structural reforms that yielded quick productivity gains, it is not clear that higher productivity leads to increased competitiveness.

Deep service sector reforms would thus be necessary to generate meaningful productivity gains in the German economy.

The streamlining of regulations, including mutual recognition of inspections and certifications, could lead to important productivity gains.

The Advisory Committee was informed that considerable productivity gains had been achieved in the past three years.

The productivity gains recorded were only the beginning, and workload standards would need to be reviewed accordingly.

The drawback, however, is that gains achieved in productivity are somewhat offset by losses in quality control.

b) if by the act he or she gains major profit.

While the agricultural sector has shown some productivity gains since 2000, high logistics costs have constrained its impact.

Delays due to inspections, particularly for perishable goods, can hamper productivity gains, ultimately leading to consumer welfare losses.

Perhaps we'd achieve similar productivity gains in society to those we've had in the economy and in technology.

A decade of wage growth exceeding productivity gains led to real appreciation, loss of competitiveness, and large current account deficits.

In other words, many of the improvements reported below have generated productivity gains on both sides of the service encounter.

Productivity gains from the technological innovations should be directed towards that goal, rather than cost reduction for its own sake.

As populations grow, biotechnology can help raise the productivity of major food crops.

Global competition has whipped many of the region s industries into shape and fostered significant productivity gains in advanced sectors, but these gains have remained limited to a narrow segment of the economy.

Such efficiency gains from increasing the extent of the market and promoting specialization should have produced rapid growth in Mexican productivity.

The easing of regulations has produced a number of benefits, including productivity gains, consumer benefits and smoother introduction of new technologies.

31. The Advisory Committee notes that the Secretary General refers to a number of areas where productivity gains have been realized following the introduction of technological innovations in other areas, such gains are anticipated.

One major factor that induced excessive risk taking is that firms standard pay arrangements reward executives for short term gains, even when those gains are subsequently reversed.

Employee productivity skyrockets, rioting reported in major cities, USA climbs out of 6 year recession

The euro gave these countries access to cheap credit, which was used to finance wage increases that were not underpinned by productivity gains.

The idea that tax cuts would lead to productivity gains and would pay for themselves (and fix the budget) has proved entirely illusory.

Will the loss of revenue due to tariff reductions be duly compensated for by productivity and employment gains in a liberalized trading environment?

US productivity has been growing at a respectable pace for two decades. The problem is that productivity gains have not translated into commensurate wage increases for the typical worker or income growth for the typical family.

While the Department of Management provides leadership and sets policy within the domains of financial and administrative management and, in that role, often creates the conditions for productivity gains, those gains can only be claimed by inference.

Overall, productivity per worker, which is the major component of growth from within , has consistently declined.

The official response to this is that no country should be forced to increase wages, and that everybody gains if structural reforms increase productivity.

Aftermath The Slovak part of Czechoslovakia made major gains in industrial production in the 1960s and 1970s.

No one can determine how much of America s productivity gains in recent years have resulted from squeezing human capital, because such things are not measured.

But, as the marginal productivity gains from such investment began to fall, senior managers survival and compensation continued to be tied to stock market performance.

That may require some loss of customary independence, but it will result in major gains in overall effectiveness.

Finally, while in the short run a decrease in prices does imply a loss, over a longer period a decrease in price does not necessarily mean that the relevant export activity is not profitable or even increasing in profitability, as major productivity gains can drive down the costs of production in a major way.

The developing world is not doing much better. As the International Labor Organization s latest Global Wage Report shows, wage gains are lagging far behind productivity growth.

In the aftermath of the international financial crisis of 1997 1998, many emerging markets found themselves through currency depreciation, rapid productivity gains, or both highly competitive.

There are other areas of policymaking that, as they work their way into operations, can reasonably be inferred to produce productivity gains on an indirect basis.