productive worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofproductiveandworker
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productive
adjective
uk/prəˈdʌk.tɪv/us/prəˈdʌk.tɪv/
resulting in or providing a large amount or supply ...
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worker
noun[C]
uk/ˈwɜː.kər/us/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition ofproductiveandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Perhaps these considerations make the reluctance of the senior worker more acceptable than in the case of the tax-averse highlyproductiveworker.
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One may perfectly agree with such a state policy and still disapprove of this veryproductiveworker being reluctant to work because of higher marginal income taxation.
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Of course not, but only one person in 20 is aproductiveworker.
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That would be adding a useful load on top of theproductiveworker.
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Everyproductiveworker, like a front-line soldier, has hundreds of people behind him.
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We cannot achieve that if we add to theproductiveworkerthe burden of a bigger ratio of non-productive workers than he had to contend with in pre-war days.
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I hope that it will concentrate on giving incentives to the honest andproductiveworkerin our midst, and more extreme discouragement to the mere speculator and usurer.
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There must be a realization that without the complete confidence and effort of theproductiveworkerthis nation is sunk.
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Here as elsewhere we are up against the point that the realproductiveworkeris the worst treated under our present system.
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All this has to be paid for by the production of theproductiveworker, and all of it goes to put up our costs.
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The lighting and ventilation were improved, because it was appreciated that a happy and healthy worker is aproductiveworker.
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I am sure he would be the first to admit that a waiter is aproductiveworker.
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Therefore, a moreproductiveworker, although he earns a lot more, is still cheaper than a lowproductiveworker.
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He was aproductiveworkerand published extensively on these and other groups.
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If quality is equal, piece rate rewards the moreproductiveworkerand offers less to those less productive.
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Workers doing this work would get their sustenance from the surplus value of the productive workers.
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In equilibrium, firms having more capital, and therefore more productive workers, pay proportionately higher wages.
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Indeed, one study has already suggested that frequent internet users are often happy and productive workers.
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Employers were able to let productive workers go because the influx of women and young baby boomers into the workforce created an ample supply of labor.
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