Sentences with phrase «for labor inputs»

Improved management and automation enables production with fewer people Falling need for labor inputs means that labor force and labor productivity growth are not the constraints on production growth they once were.

Not exact matches

This is particularly significant in the context of the labor market, considering that inflation — and, by extension, wage inflation — is arguably the most important input for the Federal Reserve as it decides how quickly to raise interest rates.

Long gone are the days when cheap labor was the most important input for manufacturers.

«Import growth captures both the «true» part of productivity growth (since increased capital investment typically requires an expanding current account deficit) as well as the illusory part of productivity growth (resulting from the failure to account for foreign labor input in the productivity numbers).

The only things you have to provide are ventilation to make sure there's air movement, labor input to be able to make sure the plants are growing, and water — which is a new challenge for legal operators in California.

Yet most borrowers borrow, not to add to their money holdings, but to acquire other things, like cars and real estate, or (if they are business borrowers) to pay for labor, raw materials, or other inputs.

Include information about the production process, including daily operations, the physical plant and special equipment, material and labor inputs, inventory tracking plans, and permits and other requirements for creating your offerings.

This approach is based on the ICI's model for Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation and was developed with extensive input from ICI.

Producing, processing, transporting, preparing, storing, and disposing of discarded food uses inputs such as land, water, labor, and energy that could be available for other purposes.

Instead of focusing on the poor families that do not qualify for Social Security retirement benefits in the first place, the remainder of this paper will focus on the families who are effectively denied full coverage because of their family forms and in spite of their input from taxes and participation in the labor force.

This comes on the heels of a dust - up over the DSCC's new fundraising «councils» for which LGBT, business and labor donors were asked to fork over between $ 25,000 and $ 50,000 to have exclusive access and input to the majority as its members shape their agenda.

Senate Republicans were displeased with Cuomo's raising of the wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 an hour through a Department of Labor wage board, and have subsequently called for more legislative input on the issue.

I think the evidence is pretty clear that for instance, local, labor — intensive, low - input agriculture is the smartest option from much of the world, both in terms of providing jobs, security, stability and food, and in making those ecological systems robust enough to withstand the damage that's coming, that's already here.

Even though the use of Learning Lists produced positive results, inputting data and updating the system was still too labor - intensive and time - consuming for teachers, the paper said.

When combined with a tight labor market and recent wage growth, it remains to be seen how well companies can absorb input cost increases before having to pass them on to consumers, and how sticky consumer demand for goods and services will be once this happens.

@John Newlands 16April 7.49 am Dollar costing is a proxy for material inputs Not really, 3kW of wind capacity has a similar cost to 1kW of nuclear, but uses much more steel and concrete but a lot less highly skilled labor and capital intensive manufacturing.

«Public information is an important input for making investment decisions, designing public policies or creating new tools at the service of society, which is why many of our users use this information to decide technical, economic, and labor aspects.

Their screening order and result retrieval processes have significantly reduced the need for manual labor and duplicative data input.

The cost of materials important to the construction of apartments rose 3.6 percent over the year that ended in September, according to the producer price index (PPI) for inputs to new construction from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

He and Malone find it useful to have a contractor offer input regarding materials and labor costs for these major undertakings.