Sentences with phrase «labour productivity level»

I say this because Canada's labour productivity level in the business sector has been lower than that of the US for almost 50 years.

Greater Vancouver disappoints when it comes to its labour productivity level, an important driver of living standards.

Not exact matches

If Canada's level of labour productivity had increased to the U.S. level (and the other four factors had stayed the same), Canada's income per capita would have been $ 8,500 higher.

Core inflation has drifted higher over the past year, as slowing productivity growth has pushed up growth in unit labour costs, albeit from a very low level.

To further contextualize Canada's serious issue with its productivity growth, a report put out by the Council of Canadian Academies states that since 1984, the relative labour productivity in the Canadian business sector dropped from more than 90 % of the US level to 76 % in 2007, putting the country 15th out of 18 comparative Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.

Labour productivity also depends on the workers» own attributes: innate abilities, level of formal education and training, skills acquired on the job, a capacity to learn new tasks, etc..

However, the issue with using Marx for this is that Marx discovered empirically that not all labour hours are treated the same, and that the level of capitalisation (unit productivity per labour hour), personal productivity (length of the working day, fatigue), and social utility produced an «average» social labourer.

8.2 achieve higher levels of productivity of economies through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high value added and labour - intensive sectors

After reviewing productivity levels and areas of responsibility amongst cleaning staff, they found that their labour numbers were too high and the amount of productivity too low.