Adding a few hundred million Chinese and Indians to the world's productive labor force after 1980 slowed the rise in income for workers all over the developed world.
We need a new approach to governance that includes more respect not only for students in need of high-quality education but also for taxpayers, that has less job-killing red tape, and that fosters a more productive work force.
The message that Business in the Community wants to spread is that a fit and healthy workforce is a productive work force and employers in all sectors must play their part in preventing not only couch but office potatoes.
It depends on whether the country can put its growing labour force to productive use.
While international trade moves our jobs into more productive activities, takes advantage of our comparative advantage, makes our labor force as a whole more productive, it does not necessarily create more jobs than it destroys in the short term.
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Meanwhile, however, the literacy rate among men of working age has risen to 70%, making the labour force much more productive than in the past.
Even worse, blind efforts to make every firm's workforce mirror the overall labour force can be counter-productive.
We know that when a woman can plan the size of her family, she is healthier, more likely to finish her education, join the labor force, become more economically productive and engage in politics, thus more effectively shaping the future of her family and her country.
It accounts for one percent or so of Euro-zone gross domestic product and its labor force is one of the least productive on the continent.
Chris Pond, of one-parent families' group Gingerbread, said trying to force people into jobs could be counter-productive.
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Our work force, although not fully utilized currently is productive and with the dollar so weak we are more than competitive.
Employing more, but less productive, workers lowers the average skill level of the labour force.
And what has made it possible to harness the incredible productive capacity of the American people -- the greatest economic force in the history of the world -- has been a free market where people can pursue their dreams, their goals and their happiness, and where you can take charge of your own destiny.
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The biggest problem, from an economic perspective, is that despite all these ills attacking the labor force, government stats show the average worker is twice as productive today as he or she was 40 years ago, thanks to technology, meaning that an occasionally distracted employee is a small price for a business to pay for so much more output.
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