Although the other categories do not differ from the reference category of state-imposed coordination, the interaction term between pattern bargaining and intersectoral productivity differences is significantly negative, suggesting that the dampening effect of pattern bargaining on costs grows with widening productivity differentials.
In addition to several proposed techniques for dealing with the widening productivity gap, e.g., IP reuse and integration, virtual platform modeling, formal verification and others, high-level synthesis (HLS) has been touted as an important solution as it can significantly reduce the number of man-hours required for a design by raising the level of design abstraction.
The gap is set to widen: Chinese productivity has been growing at about 6.6% a year, more than double ASEAN's 2.9%.Indian workers are still some way behind their productivity was 27% less than ASEAN workers' in 2005.
A productivity expert, Mr. Brown has widened the product line to include lower-priced dolls intended for a younger market.
Deep recession and slow recovery has widened Britain's productivity gap with other rich G7 nations to its largest since 1994, according to official figures.
The productivity gap widened slightly during the late 1980s and early 1990s, but quickly vanished again in the late 1990s.
"The problem is that they will continue to hold back northern economic prosperity and widen the yawning productivity gap between the capital and the rest of the nation".
There has been a widening gap between productivity and median incomes since the 1970s.
It's a combustible concoction wherever it occurs: increasing productivity, widening inequality, and rising unemployment create tinder-box societies.
Jacobson and Occhino write that economists have identified three long-term factors that explain why "the wage-productivity gap has widened and the share of income accruing to labor has declined".
There are several strategies that have been developed to cope with the SoC design complexity widening designer productivity gap.
