Sentences with phrase «labor meant prices»

The study also concluded that the inclusion of immigrant labor meant prices for computer products were 1.9 % to 2.4 % lower.

Not exact matches

The overwhelming power of business to raise prices at will means in a full employment situation where labor would otherwise be able to fairly bargain for a real wage increase, instead, things blow up (spiraling inflation, that 70s show).

And unemployment means no pricing power for labor, no wages to pay off debts accrued during the bubble, a potential wage of foreclosures and a resulting set off layoffs in the service sector.

The optimist's take on this trend is that robots help Amazon keep prices low, which means people buy more stuff, which means the company needs more people to man its warehouses even though it needs fewer human hours of labor per package.

My question is which blades are the best and will cut through the hair??? I mean if companies are going to make things that fall apart, well that's the price we pay for labor.

Eurozone officials are unanimous that it means a commitment to financial war against labor — to austerity and yet further economic shrinkage; to faster privatization selloffs (but not to Russians if they offer higher prices, as Gazprom did) and hence higher prices for hitherto public utilities; to no rejection of past insider privatization deals to higher value - added taxes on consumers; and to lower pensions for labor.

Labor shortages mean wages must rise, and rising costs lead to higher prices.

Under this system goods and services are distributed by means of an open market in commodities, land, labor, and money, the values or prices of which are determined by competitive bidding.

They are appalled by reforms meant to raise the price of labor.

Fair labor means higher prices.

Medical inflation means the increase since March 2010 in the overall medical care component of the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI - U)(unadjusted) published by the Department of Labor using the 1982 - 1984 base of 100.

Labor shortages mean wages must rise, and rising costs lead to higher prices.

Companies might have to increase prices to pay for the additional labor costs, and then that means inflation.

To account for differences in cost of living, mean salary data was normalized using the most recent average price data of white bread from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (October 2014, http://www.bls.gov/data/).

I would see mean reversion in the nonfinancial EBITDA margins whenever labor pricing power comes back.

Also, given how many commodities are priced globally, and those have become a more important part of the cost structure recently (though the effect is not that bad if one takes a long - term view... increased productivity means we use less commodities to achieve the same ends as 40 years ago), the factor share going to labor in developed countries is probably being squeezed a little.

This means that the labor involved with repairing an electric vehicle is going to see the same price increase as the parts involved with the repair job.

Priced at $ 50 (# 50 / $ 60 in the U.K. / Germany), the new version is similar to the existing incarnation in most respects, but it has been trimmed by a few millimeters and now packs a more powerful processor, meaning it should be capable of performing more labor - intensive tasks.