Sentence examples for pace of productivity from inspiring English sources

The hardest variable to judge in China's changing labor market is the pace of productivity growth.

For the longer term, the pace of productivity has profound consequences.

Real wages can grow in the long run only at the pace of productivity.

The pace of productivity growth depends on capital investment, improvements in business processes and technological innovation.

The pace of productivity growth has been rising again, but now it seems to be lifting fewer boats.

They are much less good at capturing the continuing gains that result from a faster accumulation of capital, or a quickened pace of productivity growth.

"Increases in demand have remained in excess of even the rapid pace of productivity-driven gains in potential supply, exerting continued pressure on resources," the Fed said in its report yesterday.

Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, and other F.O.M.C. members justified the rate rise by saying in a statement that "increases in demand have remained in excess of even the rapid pace of productivity-driven gains in potential supply".

Noting that the risks are still weighted toward heightened inflation pressures in the near future, Mr. Fine said that the Fed stated in stronger-than-usual fashion that increases in demand had continued to be in excess of even the rapid pace of productivity-driven gains in potential supply, thereby exerting continued pressure on resources.

Fernald identifies a slowdown in capital investment, particularly in IT, and the CBO's analysis of this problem finds that the flow "capital services" -- the pace of productivity-boosting inputs from our capital stock -- increased by 4.7%/year in the 1990s and only 2.4% in the 2000s.

The slowdown in the pace of labor productivity growth, measured per hour worked, is even more pronounced.