Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations
increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.
Their central estimate suggests that a 10 ppb (parts per billion) decrease in ozone concentration
increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.
Mike Moffatt said: «Greater business investment
increases worker productivity — which increases wages — and expands the number of jobs.»
Applications and a connected workforce
increase worker productivity by making their business operations available at their fingertips, wherever they might be.
Employers looking to retain millennial talent and
increase worker productivity can offer student loan repayment benefits.
«Increasing productivity by one day each month: Study shows corporate wellness programs lead to
increased worker productivity.»
However, studies have shown5 that a company that values work - life balance benefits from
increased worker productivity, reduced turnover, increased engagement, and greater employee motivation, commitment, and loyalty.
As it turns out, having an informative, hands - free display that's only a flick - of - the - wrist away could be convenient enough to relay information while maintaining and perhaps even
increasing worker productivity.
Many studies find that unions
increase worker productivity.
Effectively
increase worker productivity by successfully reducing absenteeism and equipment downtime, and provide cost reduction initiatives that effectively lower insurance premiums and Workers» Compensation payments, and preventing any regulatory fines by establishing a safe and healthy work environment.
Not exact matches
While compensation and benefits matter to
workers, research from Gallup shows that zeroing in on a mission is linked to higher employee engagement, better retention rates and
increased productivity.
Participating factories had registered positive outcomes for
workers, who enjoyed improved quality of life, and their businesses — which tallied declines in absenteeism and
increased productivity.
«The first thing to keep in mind is that, in some long run equilibrium, wage inflation should be equal to what the growth rate of
productivity is — so how much
workers can produce — and the
increase in prices for the goods they produce,» he said at the UBS Greater China conference in Shanghai.
A 2011 study by researchers at the National University of Singapore indicated that the occasional electronic distraction actually
increased workers» engagement and
productivity.
The study estimates that U.S.
workers across all sectors on average were better off by about $ 431 million in 2010 when you take into account the
increased productivity and innovation within the tech sector due to foreign
workers.
And a study of Japanese bank
workers from 2012 found that bad weather
increased workers»
productivity (in general, they were more efficient at completing assigned tasks in a loan - application).
However, it appears many small business owners are instead focusing on slow and steady growth, and driving up
productivity to
increase margins with the use of technology, fewer
workers, and more hours.
«The findings suggest that investing in landscaping an office will pay off through an
increase in office
workers» quality of life and
productivity.»
In a survey of 1,600 managers and employees, the researchers found that 83 percent of leaders and 77 percent of
workers say that top performers have less stress and
increased productivity because of their habits.
For employers, absent a marked
increase in per -
worker productivity, they find themselves with lowered output and the need to add additional staff, which, because of the restrictions of Obamacare, will undoubtedly have to be more part - timers.
I don't know what was happening to Canadian
productivity before 1973, but even if there was no growth in output per
worker, the
increase in our labour terms of trade would have induced significant gains in real wages.
Wage and benefit
increases of 15 to 20 percent per year at the average Chinese factory will slash China's labor - cost advantage over low - cost states in the U.S., from 55 percent today to 39 percent in 2015, when adjusted for the higher
productivity of U.S.
workers.
A one percentage point
increase in the growth rate of
productivity has been associated with between two - thirds and one percentage point higher growth in median
worker compensation in the period since 1973, and with between 0.4 and 0.7 percentage points higher growth in production / nonsupervisory
worker compensation.
That freed up
workers to move into job opportunities opening up elsewhere in the economy, while
increasing the
productivity and incomes of those who remained (Charts 4a and b).
U.S.
worker productivity increased modestly in Q1, and a jump in compensation supported views that inflation pressures were building up.
This means investors are capturing an ever -
increasing share of
productivity gains at the expense of
workers.
Factory farming and the combine harvester
increased labour
productivity in the farming sector and reduced the need for agricultural
workers.
[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of
worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS,
productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity,
productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation
increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.
Contingent
workers are key to
increasing productivity, extending recovery Government policies threaten to ossify labor markets and stunt growthThe often - maligned phenomenon of contingent
workers could play a key role improving
workers» lives and
productivity but so much depends on government policy, writes Peter Morici.
2) Robert Reich wrote «The Future of Success» which addresses
increases in
productivity and where that
productivity comes from (hint: not from
workers working harder or smarter), 3) «Smart Money Decisions» by Max Bazerman (Harvard Business School) discusses business ethics, and the «psychology of money».
In turn, the investment spending
increases labour
productivity as more equipment boosts
worker output per hour.
Research shows that there are numerous benefits to using coworking spaces, including an
increase in
productivity, a boost in
worker morale and the maximisation of overall energy.
Between 2000 and 2006, average wages remained flat despite an
increase of
worker productivity of 15 %, while corporate profits
increased 13 % per year.
In the example taken from Adam Smith, the small pin factory greatly
increases the
productivity of labor, because the number of pins produced per
worker per day rises dramatically.
They argue cogently that
worker ownership plans would tremendously
increase our
productivity and prosperity and can be brought about through methods that have already proven successful in a number of corporations.2 Additionally, they propose a number of other ways to distribute our wealth through innovative, capitalist methods.
By introducing modern agricultural practices and monoculture, these could
increase productivity, that is, the amount produced by each
worker.
Among its findings: a 21 percent decrease in reportable food safety incidents, a 14 percent decrease in
worker injuries, a 24 percent
increase in
worker productivity and 13 percent
increase in operating margins.
Mobile Material Handlers are designed to
increase productivity by lifting and lowering product to reduce
worker strain in today's harsh industrial environments.
So it's not enough that we treat our farmers like dirt, we must create near slave - like conditions for agricultural
workers in order to reach those holy grails of «
increased productivity» and «greater global competitiveness».
The need for «store - friendly and aisle - ready» deliveries, reverse route sequence truck loading,
worker ergonomics / safety, additional space, and the growing number of stock keeping units is creating demand for
increased productivity, and efficiency in food and beverage distribution centres.
From the Marxist point of view, the 1930's depression was also caused by
increased productivity: at one hand, machine churned out much more stuff than before, at the other hand,
workers lost their jobs because machines did better job.
Moments earlier, Digby Jones, who introduced him on stage, made a similar point, telling low income
workers that higher wages required an
increase in
productivity.
The offer is part of a wider
productivity plan, which would also require large firms hiring skilled
workers from outside the EU to create 100,000 apprenticeships over the parliament, a move that would inevitably
increase the cost of hiring foreign
workers.
Hawkins supports raising the state minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, indexed to
increases in
worker productivity, and would crack down on the epidemic of wage theft in the state Gov. Andrew Cuomo has refused more than a year to convene a minimum wage board to provide a wage hike to tip
workers despite this being part of the wage agreement last year with the legislature.
With fewer inexperienced
workers in the lab, it is very possible that the average
productivity per person will actually
increase.»
Lead author Professor Marian Rizov from Lincoln International Business School at the University of Lincoln, said: «Our findings offer compelling evidence that
increasing wages for the lowest paid
workers improves
productivity, and that this effect applies in companies of all sizes and across most low - paying sectors.
«In particular, in a world with constraints on the funding and dissemination of ideas (e.g., a limit on the number of faculty slots, or, more abstractly, a limit on the attention span of the potential audience), large and sudden
increases in the population of producers of knowledge can result in diminishing marginal
productivity for a pre-existing
worker,» it continues.
After linking the medical data with individual
worker productivity data, the authors found that participation in the wellness program
increased average
worker productivity by over 5 percent — roughly equivalent to adding one additional day of productive work per month for the average employee.
Thanks to the internet, companies no longer have to limit themselves to hiring
workers in their geographic area, and many business leaders have
increased their company's
productivity by using FlexJobs to recruit remote employees around the world.
And recent studies also show an active dating life can
increase productivity in
workers.