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Making more stuff without working more hours

2024/8/1
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Luke Pardue：近期生产力增长是经济软着陆的关键因素，企业为了应对劳动力市场紧张，提高了现有员工的工作效率。 Elizabeth Troval：生产力增长使得企业能够在不增加员工的情况下提高产量，从而增加收入，并能够将收入再投资或提高员工工资，而无需提高物价。 Dennis Jansen：尽管实际工资有所增长，但对于许多工人来说，工资仍然落后于通货膨胀。 Zach Bethune：即使实际工资增长，通货膨胀也可能通过其他方式损害工人的利益，例如减少名义储蓄和财富。 Gregor Drosch：生产力增长与工资增长相匹配，因此不必担心工资-物价螺旋式上升。

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Productivity growth helps increase wages without leading to a wage-price spiral, as businesses can produce more without hiring more workers, leading to higher revenue and potentially higher wages.

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Strong productivity growth last quarter coupled with recent wage growth means we’re generating more output and, at least to some extent, getting paid for it. In this episode, why productivity growth prevents a wage-price spiral. Plus, California wants to build an offshore wind turbine assembly plant, national economics impact national performance in the Olympics and equity-rich homeowners can’t do much with their housing wealth right now.