While a spike in productivity—essentially the measure of how much output a worker creates per hour—is generally viewed as the ...

U.S. labor productivity initially surged in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the massive economic upheaval. As the economy recovered, the level of productivity retreated to its slow ...

“Productivity isn’t everything,” Paul Krugman wrote in his 1990 book, The Age of Diminished Expectations, “but in the long run it is almost everything.” Productivity is a foundation of prosperity. The ...

The global economy has been struggling to regain its footing since the 2008–09 global financial crisis. Forecasts for medium-term growth continue to be downgraded. Advanced economies have seen a ...

There are worse economic trends than slowing productivity. How about declining productivity for one? That’s the nasty trick pulled by the US construction sector. It’s been running in reverse for a ...

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