Boosting productivity is viewed as the only way to ensure UK living standards improve. Output per hour has stagnated since 2010 in the UK but has grown in other industrialised economies. The most-recent official data show productivity was 0.6 per cent lower in the second quarter of 2017 than ...
following the industrial revolution, technology has outgrown and outpaced changes in education in the digital revolution (see Goldin & Katz,2009). When the demands and development of technology exceed the education and skills of children and adults, there can be a gap in productivity and ...
“… a country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise output per worker’’ in the long run (Krugman1994). However, productivity growth has been sluggish across advanced and emerging economies in recent decades (see, adapted from...
Germany is known for its high value industries like automotive and pharmaceuticals, where robotics and other technologies can greatly enhance productivity. This is supported by GDP per capita, in which Germany has grown substantially since 2000. Limitations of this Data A limitation of this dataset...
Working fewer hours doesn’t mean that a country is becoming less productive, though. Germany is known for its high value industries like automotive and pharmaceuticals, where robotics and other technologies can greatly enhance productivity.
关闭预览 想预览更多内容,点击免费在线预览全文 免费在线预览全文 Economic Policy Reforms Going for Growth IntERIm REPoRt 2018 Economic Policy Reforms 2018 GOING FOR GROWTH INTERIM REPORT This work is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed and argu...
In the first stage, they estimate productivity using SFA. In the second stage, they estimate the effects of FDI on productivity using feasible GLS models. The authors indicate that FDI spillovers have a negative impact on energy-intensive sectors. Despite the widespread use of the two-step ...
According to previous studies by the Israeli Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Israel, the significant gap in productivity between Israel's tech industry—often called the country's "growth engine"—and its traditional manufacturing industry is exerting downwards pressure on the country's entire ...
Eco-innovation and energy productivity: new determinants of renewable energy consumption J. Environ. Manag., 271 (2020), Article 111028 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar [50] M.M. Alam, M.W. Murad The impacts of economic growth, trade openness and technological progress on renew...
while initial evidence indicates that hourly productivity increased to fully offset the reduction in work hours.Despite these giant strides towards work-life balance,Korean workers devote more time to paid employment than in most OECD countries,and a higher proportion of Korean employees,both women ...