|
Productivity: What Is It, and Why Do We Care About It?: Disaggregation by Source and Sector Yields Important Insights.
Business Economics
|
October 1, 2001|
|
COPYRIGHT 2001 The National Association for Business Economists. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
(Hide copyright information)
Copyright
|
Economists, business analysts, and policymakers have all focused considerable attention on U.S. productivity growth in recent years. This paper presents a broad overview of productivity--both labor and total factor--and discusses why it is such an important topic. We begin with the official U.S. productivity statistics prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and discuss several stylized facts. We show how productivity relates to critically important variables like long-run growth, living standards, and inflation. We then describe the proximate factors that determine ...
|
J.S. Woodsworth
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press
; ...papers of a Manitoba and Canadian icon -- James Shaver Woodsworth. As he rummaged through Woodsworth's dusty documents and books, Mills made...any Catholic church. "In 1906, J.S. Woodsworth went to Palestine on holidays, and he...
|
|
Of charters and justice: The social thought of F.R. Scott, 1930-1985
Magazine article from: Journal of Canadian Studies
; ...preacher of inter-war socialism, James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942).(f.2...possibilities; in 1927 he met Woodsworth, a constitutional centralist...implications of Quebec's outlook, Woodsworth in the late 1920s advocated...
|
|
Ecumenical centre not for everyone: Centre for Christian Studies starts with liberation theology
Magazine article from: Anglican Journal
; ...in Toronto. The centre is now housed in J.S. Woodsworth House in Winnipeg, a replica (the original home burned down) of James Shaver Woodsworth's home. He was a Methodist minister and founder...
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "Productivity: What Is It, and Why Do We Care ..."
