The USA is where exactly?

Citation

(2008), "The USA is where exactly?", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 57 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijppm.2008.07957bab.001

The USA is where exactly?

The US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labour Statistics regularly compares US performance with 16 other nations. In its most recent analysis, the USA ranked 11th with an increase in productivity of 2.4 per cent. The Republic of Korea and Taiwan had the largest productivity increases (+10.8 and +6.9 per cent, respectively) whilst in Germany and Sweden labour productivity grew by over 6 per cent. Manufacturing productivity increased by only 0.3 per cent in Australia and by 1.4 per cent in Italy. Poor Canada is the only economy that had no manufacturing productivity growth in 2006.

Manufacturing unit labour costs, expressed in national currency units, declined in nine of the economies and increased in seven. For the USA, the change was near the middle of the range, at +0.1 per cent.

Manufacturing output increased in 14 of the 16 economies in 2006. Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan continued to be the leaders as they have been for the last decade. In 2006, growth in manufacturing output in Germany, Norway and Denmark was also noticeably higher than their average annual rates of increase over the 1979-2006 period. The US increase of 3.3 per cent was also above its average annual increase since 1979 of 2.9 per cent.