low-productivity

"This company is a low-productivity mall owner," said Cedrik Lachance , an analyst with Green Street Advisors Inc.

General Growth Starts Year With a Gamble Kris Hudson 2012

Italy continues to waste its potential by spending on low-productivity, politically-determined transfer programs.

Leave the Euro to the PIGS Allan H. Meltzer 2011

I understand the Luddie reference, but why can't you guys see this is different because it is the high-wage high-productivity jobs that we are losing, and not low-productivity jobs that we would rather not do anyway?

Free Trade in Tech Labor, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.

The Employment Situation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

*** Why has Spain, widely agreed to have a low-productivity problem of its own, managed to maintain its share of world exports since the euro has been introduced and even increase its share of service exports?

Funding Poorer Members Won't Help the Euro Zone Stephen Fidler 2011

It is because we shed low-productivity jobs that we move to a wealthier and more-productive set of options.

Debating Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Rather than hope that higher living standards will trickle down to low-productivity sectors, we would be better served by politicians grappling with the gritty task of achieving higher pay, basic security and some prospect of career progression for those working in them.

Why the 'squeezed middle' is here to stay 2011

IAN FLETCHER: This is a mirage created by the fact that if you offshore the low-productivity jobs from an American company, the jobs remaining in the U.S. will have, by definition, higher productivity--creating the illusion that the company is now more productive.

Michael Hughes: Free Trade Doesn't Work: Interview with Economist Ian Fletcher Michael Hughes 2010

IAN FLETCHER: This is a mirage created by the fact that if you offshore the low-productivity jobs from an American company, the jobs remaining in the U.S. will have, by definition, higher productivity--creating the illusion that the company is now more productive.

Michael Hughes: Free Trade Doesn't Work: Interview With Economist Ian Fletcher Michael Hughes 2010

But with coordinated action to expand demand in surplus countries, with a worldwide effort to resist the resort to protectionism, and with a willingness of emerging countries to reallocate resources from traditional, low-productivity activities, such as agriculture, to new industries, America need no longer be the consumer of last resort.

Beyond the Crash Gordon Brown 2010