Translation of "Produktivitätsfortschritt" in English

This room for manoeuvre arises from progress in productivity and the ability of enterprises to pass on price rises.

He has made a reduction in cycle times the yardstick by which to measure progress in productivity.

Raising productivity also means a change in the working world, not always and immediately with positive effects.

To put that into context, the typical productivity gain in conventional warehouse optimization is 1.5 to 2 percent.

The advance in productivity becomes even clearer for cell culture substrates or cell smears, or for surfaces covered with defined antigens.

The study goes on to calculate productivity growth in the German railroad sector based on a synthetic comparator sector.

Against this background, the study examines how productivity growth in the railroad sector can be determined in Germany.

Productivity growth has been significantly lower in Europe than in the U.S. or in some Asian countries.

Our calculations estimate an average annual increase in productivity of 0.6 % between 1992 and 2008.

This report does not advocate the kind of minimal reductions whose effects are quickly absorbed by increased productivity and which have no impact on employment - reductions of the kind that are usual in collective bargaining.

Improving competitiveness of the EU yards is encouraged by the Commission but, in the face of massive price undercutting by Korean yards, the achievable progress in productivity is not sufficient.

He made it clear that price stability is not enough on its own, and that it must be supplemented by a judicious budgetary policy, by an appropriate balance of productivity gains and moderate nominal compensation growth, and by urgently needed structural reforms. He pointed out that the Stability and Growth Pact provides the overall concept and the common rules for the different economic policies of the Member States.

The advances in productivity made by European industry mean that, in years to come, no new jobs will be created in industry.

It is clear , particularly from comparisons with the United States , that increased access to the high technology industries , such as the new information and communications industries , is necessary in order to accelerate productivity growth .

The Committee reiterates its call for wage rises to reflect not only inflation (which is still very low) but also productivity gains and the need to secure company profitability (generally very good in the Community), while increasing purchasing power.

Wherever wage increases at sectoral level are geared towards sectoral productivity, real wages rise retrospectively to match advances in productivity (although the wage share remains constant), and unit labour costs grow in line with the tolerated inflation rate.

In sectors with high productivity gains, strong international and intra-Community competition is leading to a reduction in relative prices (and, in a number of cases, also in absolute prices).

The situation on the labour market is further exacerbated by serious difficulties in the agricultural sector, where constantly rising productivity and the increasing pressure of competition are also drastically reducing the number of jobs available, and will continue to do so.

Since the turn of the century no further declines in trend productivity growth have been recorded in the EU and since mid-2005 productivity has actually picked up.

The Council notes that this growth scenario has been lowered from the previous update and that the Programme's assumptions on productivity rises are moderate by international comparisons.

We should increase and support all initiatives aimed at reverting to the formula: inflation + appropriate share of productivity gains.