Romer's rule
Romer's rule The proposal, first made by A. S.
Romer, that the effect of many important evolutionary changes is to enable organisms to continue in the same way of life, rather than to adapt to a new one. For example, the evolution of bony elements that strengthened the limbs of fish enabled them to crawl over land to find new ponds when the climate started to become drier. The concept is close to that of the
Red Queen effect.
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Productivity increased in many industries in 1983.
Magazine article from: Monthly Labor Review; 3/1/1985; ; 700+ words
; Productivity, as measured by output per employee...Statistics regularly publishes data. Productivity gains were unusually large in many...industries and were in contrast to 1982 when productivity declined in almost half of the industries...
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Productivity in New Zealand 1988 to 2002.
Magazine article from: New Zealand Economic Papers; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; 1. Introduction Productivity growth is inextricably linked to...due to differences in multifactor productivity growth rather than input accumulation...determinants of New Zealand's productivity is important. The aims of this...
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Productivity: What Is It, and Why Do We Care About It?: Disaggregation by Source and Sector Yields Important Insights.
Magazine article from: Business Economics; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...considerable attention on U.S. productivity growth in recent years. This paper presents a broad overview of productivity--both labor and total factor...begin with the official U.S. productivity statistics prepared by the U...
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Productivity in industry and government, 1989.
Magazine article from: Monthly Labor Review; 5/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; Productivity, as measured by output per employee hour, increased...percent of these same industries posted gains in productivity. In 1989, most industries that experienced productivity increases also showed gains in output. Similarly...
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Productivity Developments Abroad.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Newspaper article from: Federal Reserve Bulletin; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...part an acceleration in recorded labor productivity. After having averaged 1.4 percent...prominent explanation for the pickup in productivity growth centers on new developments...expect them to contribute to faster productivity growth abroad as well.(1) The availability...
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Improving productivity and quality in small and medium enterprises: cases and analysis.
Magazine article from: International Small Business Journal; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...based on the strategies for improving productivity and quality in SMEs. In many respects...numerous studies dealing with improving productivity and quality in larger multinational...the same time, the knowledge about productivity and quality improvements in SMEs is...
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MULTIFACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRENDS, 2005
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...of Labor reported today multifactor productivity data output per combined units of labor...2005. The annual rate of multifactor productivity change from 2004 to 2005 was: 2004...business sector - 1.8 Multifactor productivity in the private business and private...
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Productivity in selected industries and government services in 1986.
Magazine article from: Monthly Labor Review; 4/1/1988; ; 700+ words
; Productivity in selected industries and government services in 1986 Productivity Reports ARTHUR S. HERMAN Labor productivity, as measured by output per employee hours, increased in 1986 in more than three-fourths of the industries for which...
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Productivity trends in the machine tool accessories industry.
Magazine article from: Monthly Labor Review; 6/1/1985; ; 700+ words
; Productivity trends in the machine tool accessories...measured by output per employee-hour, productivity in the machine tool accessories industry...equipment to run the machinery have enabled productivity to improve at a gradual rate for the...
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Is Productivity Growth Key to Improving Living Standards?
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 10/17/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...their own version of the Holy Grail: productivity growth. If only America could rekindle the productivity flame, they say, every burger-flipper...discontent over the policy focus on productivity growth. It is a focus that he and...
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Productivity Concepts and Measures
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Management
Productivity Concepts and Measures Productivity is an overall measure of the ability to produce a good or service. More specifically, productivity is the measure of how specified resources are managed to...
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Productivity
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2nd ed.
PRODUCTIVITY Productivity is the result or the sum of all effort that it takes to deliver a product or service. Productivity is frequently referred to as output and, to some degree, can...
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Productivity, Concept of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
PRODUCTIVITY, CONCEPT OF PRODUCTIVITY, CONCEPT OF. The word productivity usually denotes the ratio of economic output to any or all associated inputs (in real terms), or output per unit of productive input. Increases in productivity mean...
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Ecological Productivity
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Ecological Productivity Ecological productivity refers to the primary fixation of solar energy by plants...utilization is called a food web. Ecologists refer to the productivity of green plants as primary productivity. Gross primary...
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Marginal Productivity
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Marginal Productivity A dominant theme in both the explication...nineteenth century. His ethical marginal productivity theory was an attempt to prove mathematically...causal factor; indeed, that marginal productivity explains only the demand for labor...
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