Keys to long-term economic growth
Improving Labor Productivity
Key Terms
100

What motivates workers to produce more goods and services?

incentives

100

___ is a good place for workers to get their work done.

Work environment

100

The quantity and value?

output

200

___ is anything that structures rules.

  1. Good institutions 

200

___ is to invest in any human made thing, used to create other goods and services?

Physical Capital

200

The time, labor, and natural resources?

input

300

A ____ can allow for people to settle their disputes in an organized way.

  1. dependable legal system.

300

___ is to invest in the skills and well being of workers?

Human capital

300

A measure of economic performance that indicates how efficiently inputs are converted into outputs?

Productivity 

400

What is a market characterized by the absence of taxes, licensing requirements, and other regulations?

Open and competitive markets.

400


 ____is combining inputs in new and creative ways?

Improved technical know-how

400

 ___ helps with economic growth and improves the quality of one’s life.

Infrastructure

500

 ____ is the ownership of tangible or intangible assets.

Property rights

500

___helps with higher life expectancy, and is also a form of infrastructure.

Health innovations

500

___helps with higher life expectancy, and is also a form of infrastructure.

Health innovations

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