Friday, October 14, 2011
[IWS] BLS: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF MANUFACTURING PRODUCTIVITY AND UNIT LABOR COST TRENDS, 2010 [13 October 2011]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF MANUFACTURING PRODUCTIVITY AND UNIT LABOR COST TRENDS, 2010 [13 October 2011]
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod4.nr0.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod4.pdf
[full-text, 7 pages]
and
Supplemental Files Table of Contents
http://www.bls.gov/web/prod4.supp.toc.htm
Productivity growth in manufacturing increased in 2010 in all countries covered,
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. In the majority of countries
labor productivity (output per hour) rose by more than 5 percent (see chart 1).
In the previous year, productivity fell in 12 of 19 countries. The productivity
increases in 2010 were driven by large gains in output coupled with modest changes
in hours (see chart 2). Output, after having fallen in all countries in 2009, rose
in all countries in 2010.
AND MUCH MORE...including cHARTS & TABLES....
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