RUDN Journal of Economics (Sep 2011)
Labor productivity - the important factor of the level of economic development of the country and its competitiveness
Abstract
The article deals with the research of the dynamics of the development of the developing and developed countries in 1950-2010 years. The steady negative tendency of increasing of the lagging of labor productivity in the developing countries in comparison with the countries of Gold billion was shown. In article in is shown that intense increasing of the backlog of the productivity of labor of catching up countries from developed ones in 1970-1990 is caused by transition the last to the post-industrial stage of development. The advantage in the speed of movement by the spiral productivity - competitiveness - productivity is provided and services in the structure of Gross Domestic Product of developed countries.