and the Industrial Statistics Yearbook, discusses labour productivity growth in manufacturing in Sri Lanka. …

changing pattern of labour productivity, labour costs and total factor productivity. …

Notion almost unknown before 1950, labor productivity is now commonly used by economists, engineers, sociologists and … productivity is the driving variable that generates economic progress, it is justified that people need to increase their efforts … regarding landmarks in the evolution of labor productivity. Arguments justifying such an approach have been given by the fact …

Dirk Pilat and Paul Schreyer of the OECD discuss the new OECD Productivity Database. The database covers 26 OECD … countries for labour productivity estimates, as well as 14 countries for multifactor productivity estimates. While the database … represents the most comparable productivity estimates that are currently available for cross-OECD comparisons, the authors also …

In the medium to long run, the growth of real income depends largely on productivity growth. Australia’s trend … productivity growth declined noticeably in the 2000s compared with the period of strong growth in the 1990s. However, the effect of … the decline in productivity growth on per capita real income growth has been offset by the boost to incomes from a rise in …

these factors have interacted with productivity growth. The analysis shows that institutional inefficiency as well as … excessive government regulations imposed on businesses are damaging to productivity and competitiveness. Weak investments in … in improving labour productivity and business sophistication. …