Sentences with phrase «national productivity»

Building resilience in pediatric patients offers an opportunity to improve the health and well - being of the next generation, enhance national productivity, and reduce spending on health care for chronic diseases.

This happened on a large enough scale to have a positive impact on national productivity, according to the study.

An Australian Industry Group report (2013) suggests STEM skills are critical for national productivity and global competitiveness, but it warns «Australia's participation in STEM skills at secondary school and university are unacceptably low».

For the purposes of encouraging high national productivity, government, labour and the private sector must collaborate to institute a management and labour productivity crusade including the introduction of a Service Charter that ensures that productivity is matched with remuneration.

In the study, which tracks economic - growth patterns from 1970 to 2000, researchers found that the link between national productivity and high test scores weakens and, in some years, disappears when the so - called «Asian Tigers» — Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea — are removed from researchers» calculations.

Along the way, students» social and emotional skills and personalities are becoming predictors of national productivity in a global education race.

«It may be time to bring back the afternoon nap in order to boost national productivity.

A series of major reports over the past few years suggests that improving mental health services for young people would dramatically lift national productivity as well as reduce the proportion of young people requiring treatment.

An Australian Industry Group report (2013) suggests skills learned through each STEM discipline are critical for national productivity and global competitiveness, but it warns that «Australia's participation in STEM skills at secondary school and university are unacceptably low».

But as United Steelworkers economist Erin Weir points out, «Corporate Canada's goal isn't to increase national productivity, it's to maximize profits.»

According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, enacting the bill would shrink the federal budget deficit by $ 175 billion by 2020, lift GDP by 5.4 % over the next 20 years, increase national productivity, balloon the workforce by about 5 % by 2033, raise the return on capital, and (although the CBO didn't put it this way) create a $ 46 billion windfall for entrepreneurs supplying security operations along the U.S. southern border.

While that might seem good for the national productivity stats, there's a problem: We spend a good deal of that work time hunched over computer screens, or on our feet doing repetitive chores, or on the road, maybe.

It makes a hard - hitting case for a national productivity agenda, an issue that is now a current priority for our governments, but one that needs concrete policy actions.

The authors argue powerfully for a national productivity strategy in order to create more stable and well - paid jobs, pointing to the new National Living Wage due to be introduced in April as a way to a «lower tax, lower welfare, higher wage society».

Most of the workers who drive the trucks, who fix the roads that you see are indigenes of those states and so they aggregate to the total output from each of those states to the national productivity and national recovery, what you will then see is improved journey time which was what we promised you as we cover more grounds.

Chris Blythe, Chief Executive of the CIOB said: «Construction is often simplistically viewed in terms of employment statistics and visible work on building sites, but this overlooks the increasingly high - tech nature of an industry that is leading on innovation and contributing directly to national productivity.

«And so, they aggregate to the total output from each of those states to the national productivity and our national recovery.

The conclusions of this emerging body of research are clear: education quality, as measured by test scores, is positively related to the earnings of individuals, national productivity, and economic growth.

In the knowledge economies of the 21st century, there are likely to be implications for Australia's national productivity and for our capacity to contribute to, and not just consume, advances in these fields.