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Productivity growth of 2% a year is not unachievable, but it would be a lot stronger than it was before the pandemic. Although productivity growth does seem faster than normal, our analysis of data...

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。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%。不过，随着企业从对远程办公技术和数字化的大规模投资中获益，这一比例可能还会上...

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On average, however, labour markets across the rich world are clearly getting tighter. America’s is plainly overheating. In March average hourly earnings were 5.6% higher than a year earlier, on th...

然而，平均而言，发达国家的劳动力市场显然正变得越来越紧张。美国的经济明显过热。根据总体指标，3月份的平均时薪比去年同期增长了5.6%。另一项指标显示，收入最低的人群的工资涨幅更大。 高盛银行推出了一项工资跟踪指标，修正了与疫情相关的各...

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But many other companies are promising similar things, whether by offering employees better in-office benefits (such as tastier cafeteria food) or better compensation packages (free college tuition). ...

但现在，许多其他公司也做出了类似的承诺，无论是为员工提供更好的办公室福利(比如更美味的餐厅食物)，还是更好的薪酬方案(免大学学费)。 数据提供商PitchBook的数据显示，2021年，风险投资者向全球人力资源科技初创公司投入了逾12...

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Why is the jobs recovery so fast? One reason is the nature of the shock that hit the economy in 2020. History shows that financial crunches—tight monetary policy, banking disasters and so on—cause pro...

为何就业复苏如此之快? 原因之一是2020年对经济造成冲击的事件本身的性质。历史表明，金融紧缩——紧缩的货币政策，银行灾难等等——会对经济造成长期的痛苦。 但是，经济通常会从“真实的”破坏中迅速恢复，比如自然灾害、战争，再比如今天讨论...

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Damien Courvalin of Goldman Sachs, a bank, says consumers switching to oil from gas (prices for which have been sky-high in Europe) may have boosted demand by up to 1m bpd, leading to "critically low ...

高盛银行的达米安·考瓦兰说，消费者从天然气转向石油（在欧洲，天然气的价格一直很高）可能会使需求每天增加高达100万桶，导致“极低的库存水平”。 供应也很紧张。数据公司标普全球普氏能源资讯的保罗谢尔登估计，全球闲置产能仅为每日260万桶...

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Finance and economics. Oil. A slippery patch. OPEC grapples with a precariously balanced oil market. Oil and philosophy rarely mix. But when David Fyfe of Argus Media, a publisher, calls produc...

财经 石油 一个不牢靠的领域 欧佩克（石油输出国组织）努力扭转失衡的石油市场 石油和哲学很少能混为一谈。但当阿格斯传媒的出版商David Fyfe称石油输出国组织(OPEC)及其盟友设定的产量配额是“柏拉图式的理想”——与其说是...

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The second group consists of most other rich countries outside America. There, neither labour nor capital seems able to triumph. After correcting for pandemic-related distortions Japan’s pay growth ap...

第二类包括除美国之外的大多数富裕国家。在这些国家，劳动力和资本谁也赢不了谁。高盛银行的数据显示，修正了与疫情相关的失真后，日本的薪酬增长似乎正在放缓至每年1%以下。意大利和西班牙的薪资水平停滞不前，而澳大利亚、法国和德国的薪资增长仍远低于疫...

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Finance and Economics. Labour vs capital. The battle of the markups. Companies are raising prices; workers are demanding higher wages. Who is winning? “A good compromise”, the saying goes, “is w...

财经 劳动力与资本 抬价之战 企业在抬高物价；工人在要求涨薪。究竟谁会是赢家？ 正如那句谚语所说，“良好的妥协会令双方都不满意”。疫情封锁后的经济中处处都是不满。百姓认为哄抬物价的企业抬高了价格，导致富裕国家的通货膨胀率同比达到...