Notes: Labour productivity: total economy
real output per hour (constructed from BLS and BEA data).
The primary determinants of GDP growth over time are 1) growth in total employment plus 2) growth in
real output per hours worked.
Not exact matches
Canadian workers» productivity, or the
output produced on average
per hour worked (which is measure by dividing
real GDP by an estimate of total
hours worked over a certain period), dipped 0.5
per cent between July and September after declining 0.6
per cent between April and June.
Labour productivity growth — the rate of growth of
output per hour worked — is also a useful concept since labour productivity growth ultimately determines the sustainable rate of growth of
real wages in the economy.
The
real measure of productivity is the ratio of
output to input, or how much is produced
per hour of work.