Posted on 09/03/2007 2:25:41 AM PDT by fabrizio
GENEVA — American workers stay longer in the office, at the factory or on the farm than their counterparts in Europe and most other rich nations, and they produce more per person over the year.
They also get more done per hour than everyone but the Norwegians, according to a U.N. report released Monday, which said the United States "leads the world in labor productivity."
The average U.S. worker produces $63,885 of wealth per year, more than their counterparts in all other countries
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America's increased productivity "has to do with the ICT (information and communication technologies) revolution, with the way the U.S. organizes companies, with the high level of competition in the country, with the extension of trade and investment abroad," said Jose Manuel Salazar, the ILO's head of employment.
The ILO report warned that the widening of the gap between leaders such as the U.S. and poorer nations has been even more dramatic.
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"The huge gap in productivity and wealth is cause for great concern," ILO Director-General Juan Somavia said, adding that it was important to raise productivity levels of the lowest-paid workers in the world's poorest countries.
China and other East Asian countries are catching up quickest with Western countries. Productivity in the region has doubled in the past decade and is accelerating faster than anywhere else, the report said.
But they still have a long way to go: Workers in East Asia are still only about one-fifth as productive as laborers in industrialized countries.
The vast differences among China's sectors tell part of the story. Whereas a Chinese industrial worker produces $12,642 worth of output — almost eight times more than in 1980 — a laborer in the farm and fisheries sector contributes a paltry $910 to gross domestic product.
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Sergey's family moved from Moscow to Maryland (his father is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland) when Sergey was 6 years old.
I thought they were both foreign born. Thanks.
Fess up — it bugs you that we’re the most productive in the world.
Wrong noob. Try again?
What does the number of employed have to do with your error about the unemployed? I don't see any mention of unemployment benefits here.
Try this.
You can't be saying that Pearl Harbor was America's fault and not the Imperial Japanese war of conquest; it sounds like you're just disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing like your namesake did a half century ago. He once said "the purpose of the opposition is to oppose". His problem was that he never bothered to stop and think about what he was opposed to. Sure, it was good that the Ohio senator opposed Truman's goofy health care scheme, but Taft went on to blindly oppose joining NATO, the Marshal plan, and kicking Stalin out of Greece.
...like you said, it’s nearly impossible to tell what’s true and what’s not. The labor department only counts you as unemployed as long as you are on welfare or receiving money...
What I was getting at is that it's hard work but that's not a problem because you and I aren't afraid of hard work. The labor dept. counts everyone, and keeps tallies on who's working, on welfare, just keeping house, and they let us decide what we think is true or not --here's a partial list --and we don't even have to take their word for it because we can check other sources or even take our own surveys.
Neat; it's either an echo in the room or I'm seeing double...
No, we have more good-for nothing moochers we all have to work hard to support. Don’t forget, we have the fattest poor people in the world.
Well that's mighty nice of them.
“but to say we were just innocent and Hirohito hit us for no reason is a bit naive....”
So a surprise military attack when we are at peace is somehow justified? Is that your claim?
I ask again, is a surprise military attack when we are at peace (and in fact negotiating diplomatically over the issues) somehow justified? Is that your claim?
So that is a YES. You hold to the position that attacking while negotiating is appropriate and good. That is an evil position.
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