Indeed, the data suggest that rich-world productivity growth is exceptionally weak at present.

事实上，数据表明，富裕国家的生产率增长目前异常疲软。

Stringent job dismissal regulations adversely affect productivity growth and hamper both prosperity and overall well-being.

严格的解雇规定对生产率增长产生不利影响，并阻碍了繁荣和整体福祉。

But the root cause of Italy's lost export competitiveness is its dismal productivity growth.

但意大利出口竞争力丧失的根本原因在于其令人沮丧的生产率增长水平。

Productivity growth of 2% a year is not unachievable, but it would be a lot stronger than it was before the pandemic.

每年2%的生产率增长是可能实现的，但它会比新冠疫情前强得多。

Last month Australian statisticians more than halved their estimate of productivity growth in the third quarter of 2022.

上个月，澳大利亚统计学家将他们对2022年第三季度生产率增长的估计下调了一半以上。

Productivity growth, which topped 6% in the wake of the recession, slowed to just 0.5% in the fourth quarter (from a year earlier).

即使生产效率一度在经济衰退后以6%的速度增长，去年第四季度也降低到了0.5%。

Although productivity growth does seem faster than normal, our analysis of data from oecd countries suggests that it falls short of 2%.

尽管生产率增长看起来确实比正常速度快，但我们对经合组织国家数据的分析表明，生产率增长实际还没有达到2%。

Still, though, global productivity growth remains weak.

尽管如此，全球生产率增长仍然疲软。

Britain's biggest problem today is not the deficit but stagnant productivity growth that leaves output per hour 2% below its peak in 2008.

如今，英国最大的问题不是赤字，而是生产力的停滞不前使得输出量相较于2008年的峰值正以每小时2%的速率下降。

Faster productivity growth and higher expected inflation translate into more wage growth; higher unemployment translates into less.

更快的生产率增长和更高的预期通货膨胀转化为更多的工资增长；更高的失业率转化为更少的失业率。

Overall, the diffusion of technology helped propel productivity growth during the 20th century.

总体而言，技术的传播有助于推动20世纪的生产率增长。

Productivity growth was lacklustre and the most popular new inventions, the smartphone and social media, did not seem to help much.

生产率增长乏善可陈，而最流行的新发明——智能手机和社交媒体——似乎也没有多大帮助。

They point to such issues as rising debt burdens, costly welfare states, depressed productivity growth, demographic decline and mass immigration.

他们指出了债务负担增加、福利国家成本高昂、生产率增长低迷、人口减少和大规模移民等问题。

Even pessimists like Robert Gordon, an economist, expect this burst of technological investment to bring about faster productivity growth, which means higher wages.

甚至像经济学家罗伯特·戈登（Robert Gordon）这样的悲观主义者也期望，这种技术投资的爆发会带来更快的生产率增长，这意味着更高的工资。

Research in recent years has demonstrated that new businesses account disproportionately for the innovations that drive productivity growth, economic growth and new job creation.

近年来的研究表明，新业务在推动生产力增长、经济增长和新就业创造方面起到了不成比例的创新作用。

Reform may have bolstered productivity growth, too, which ticked up in advanced economies at the turn of the millennium and in emerging economies in the 2000s.

改革也可能促进了生产率增长，发达经济体在世纪之交和 2000 年代的新兴经济体都出现了这种增长。

Even at the time, the evidence for an imminent jobs apocalypse was noticeably lacking: employment across the rich world reached record levels in 2019, while productivity growth in many countries was anaemic.

即便在当时，就业大灾难即将到来的证据也显然不足：2019年富裕国家的就业人数达到创纪录水平，而许多国家的生产率增长乏力。

(At one point he argues the 1930s weren't so bad after all because productivity growth was high .) By all means enjoy his colourful challenge to conventional wisdom.

（他曾一度争辩说 1930 年代并没有那么糟糕，因为生产率增长很快。）一定要享受他对传统智慧的多彩挑战。

Indeed, in " An International Perspective on New Zealand's Productivity Paradox" (2014) , the Productivity Commission singled out the low quality of managerial capabilities as a cause of the country's poor productivity growth record.

事实上，在《新西兰生产力悖论的国际视角》（2014 年）中，生产力委员会特别指出，管理能力质量低下是导致该国生产力增长记录不佳的原因之一。

As societies get richer they spend a greater share of their income on labour-intensive services, such as restaurant meals, in which productivity growth is meagre because automation is hard.

随着社会变得更富裕，收入更多地花在劳动密集的服务业上，比如在餐馆用餐，而由于这些部门难以实现自动化，生产率的增长也十分可怜。