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Showing posts with label productivity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label productivity. Show all posts
Friday, January 24, 2020

Productivity, Labor Complexity, and Wage Determination Procedures — Peter Cooper

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This post concerns an implication of Marx’s treatment of productivity and labor complexity for the appropriateness of alternative processes...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Bill Mitchell — Puzzle: Has real wages growth outstripped productivity growth or not? – Part 2

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Continuation. Bill Mitchell – billy blog Puzzle: Has real wages growth outstripped productivity growth or not? – Part 2 Bill Mitchell | Pr...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Bill Mitchell — What is the problem with rising dependency ratios in Japan – Part 2?

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This is Part 2 of my blog posts on population shifts in Japan. In – What is the problem with rising dependency ratios in Japan – Part 1? (...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

Sandwichman — "I’m not sure I follow the arithmetic here."

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All of the above, of course, is simply the fleshing out of assumptions. We assumeddiminishing productivity in the last hours, we assumed he...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Brian Romanchuk — Productivity And The Cycle

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I am resuming work on pondering the business cycle, and just wanted to give some initial comments about the notion of productivity. This ar...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Sarah Berger — 4-day work week is a success, New Zealand experiment finds

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If productivity is plummeting in the workplace, the solution might be simple: Make the work week shorter. One company did just that by e...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Joshua Bateman — Why China is spending billions to develop an army of robots to turbocharge its economy

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a robot revolution in manufacturing to boost productivity. Wages in China are rising, and it...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

McKinsey Five Fifty — The Coming Boom?

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The global economy could be on the cusp of a productivity boom—and big opportunities for companies. Tidbit: However, capturing the prod...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

IMF Blog — This is the major impact globalization has had on productivity

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Knowledge flow. It is important to note that knowledge is a free good. The arrangement of words in books can be copyrighted, but not the ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

macromon — Karl, The Comeback Kid?

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Why do we think the world is about to see the resurrection of the “comrade culture club” over the next ten years?   Make no mistake; ther...
Friday, February 2, 2018

Peter Cooper — Growth is Good?

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Whenever the topic of economic growth is broached, there is a common and understandable reaction along the lines that growth is ecologicall...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Dean Baker — Morning Edition Tells Us That Most Workers Think Like Most Economists and Don't Worry About Automation

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Productivity growth (the rate at which technology is displacing workers) had slowed to roughly 1.0 percent annually in the years since 2005...
Friday, December 1, 2017

Michael Roberts — Boom or bust?

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Review and critique of the latest OECD World Economic Outlook, from a Marxian POV. Useful. The key for me, as readers of this blog know...
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Thursday, November 23, 2017

Chris Dillow — Notes on productivity

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Productivity is a problem and conventional British economists don't have a theory that explains it. So what to do? Oh, right, more blo...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Bill Mitchell — British productivity slump – all down to George Osborne’s austerity obsession

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Apparently, whenever some poor economic news is published about the United Kingdom, journalists have to weave in their on-going gripe about...
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Friday, September 22, 2017

Will Denayer—The productivity puzzle explained. How right wing policies and neoclassical recipes destroy economic growth

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‘America needs its unions more than ever.’ And ‘Labour reform could help restore the bargaining power of US workers.’ Can you believe that ...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Xinhua — China on rapid progress of robotization: study

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China bought 90,000 robots in 2016, accounting for almost a third of the global total, and the robot revolution may raise China's econo...
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Monday, May 29, 2017

Link Between Low Wages and Low Productivity Growth: High Wages Make Low Productivity Jobs Disappear

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Substitution of capital (technology) for labor becomes more profitable as wages rise. CEPR Link Between Low Wages and Low Productivi...
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Monday, May 15, 2017

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay, Chiara Criscuolo — Great Divergences: The growing dispersion of wages and productivity in OECD countries

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Some firms pay well while others don’t; and some are highly productive while many aren’t. This column presents new firm-level data on the i...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

Xinhua — China's self-driving truck passes test

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A Chinese-made self-driving truck has passed a navigation test, heralding the era of intelligent, automated heavy vehicles. FAW Jiefang, ...
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