output per hour

And Europeans are quite productive, too: they work fewer hours, but output per hour in France and Germany is close to U. S. levels.

On the eve of the recession the rate of growth in workers' output per hour was slowing.

Output per hour is 21 per cent of the US level, but Chinese workers earn only 11 per cent of the American wage, calculates Morgan Stanley.

Since 1990 Japan's output per hour has risen by as much as that of the US.

Thanks to this process of catch-up, by 1995 Europe's output per hour reached over 90% of the American level.

Although the output per hour of work has more than doubled since 1945, leisure seems reserved largely for the unemployed and underemployed.

Following the recession's June 2009 trough, about 80% of real per capita GDP growth is due to growth in output per hour worked.

Over the past year, falling hours and output has led to an increase of 1. 8 per cent in output per hour.

Output per hour there rose by 7. 2% a year in 1995-2004, against 5% in the previous quarter-century.

For the whole year, Mr Chaney forecasts that output per hour will grow by 2. 1%.

For the first time in decades output per hour fell, reducing the input of labour by the equivalent of 1m people.

Between 1970 and 1995 output per hour in America grew at an average rate of 1. 3% a year.

Productivity is defined as output per hour of work.

The most-recent sign of that is that business-sector output per hour was up by 4. 8% year-to-year in the second quarter.

Output per hour there fell by 0. 5% last year, continuing a negative trend that dates back to the mid-1990s.

The uniform distributor can save raw materials and improve the product quality, the output per hour can be increased to 7 tons from 5 tons;