Unproductive workers

In the 1990s, high wages and social costs, whether paid directly by employers or indirectly by taxpayers, were eroding the productivity of European workers. According to OECD statistics, industrial production in Europe in 1993 was virtually at the same level as in 1989, although wages had risen from 7-8% per year. Per-unit costs of output in Germany were 35% higher than in Japan, and 540% higher than in the USA.

1. Waste of human resources
2. Underdevelopment of industrial and economic activities
3. Non-productive members of society
4. Inefficient use of resources

1. Workers uninterested in production
2. Underworked staff
3. Malingering
4. Low productivity of agricultural workers
5. Incapacity from work
6. Avoidance of work

1. Overwork
2. Declining economic productivity

1. Unorganized labour potential
2. Substance abuse at work
3. Malnutrition
4. Lack of job satisfaction
5. Insufficient personnel
6. Inefficiency of state-controlled enterprises
7. Inadequate incentives for increased national productivity
8. Excessive growth of social expenditure
9. Evasion of work
10. Addiction to sex

1. Loss of animal productivity
2. Informal sector
3. Disguised unemployment
4. Declining agricultural land
5. Abuse of prison labour

1. Using labour
2. Monitoring worker productivity
3. Improving labour productivity

1. Unused
2. Unproductivity
3. Underuse
4. Overefficient
5. Inefficiency
6. Decline
7. Counterproductivity
8. Abuse