Sentences with phrase «more labor supply»

In other words, stronger labor demand was eliciting more labor supply.

Not exact matches

Thus overcapacity is a crisis not just for capital (destroyed as overcapacity leads to a bust in profits and valuation) but also for labor, which finds that the global supply chain can meet demand without hiring more workers.

That's important as the change toward labor quality becoming the most important problem for more employers suggests that economic concerns are shifting from weak demand to tight supply.

Faced with labor shortages, the U.S. food system would experience supply constraints that could result in higher prices and force the country to look beyond its own borders for more of its food supply.

«Where I get concerned in the longer run is that the nation is becoming more reliant on immigration versus the natural population growth to supply labor,» said Scott Clemons, Chief Investment Strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman.

What's more, a number of unions on college campuses are allying with non-governmental organizations, such as United Students against Sweatshops to hold corporations accountable for enforcing labor standards throughout their global supply chains.

SAN FRANCISCO / TOKYO (Reuters)- A labor dispute at ports on the U.S. West Coast is disrupting supply chains across the Pacific, forcing some Asian exporters to resort to costly air freight and pushing up shipping rates as more freighters are caught up in long lines to dock.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

The economy could add jobs that fast, or even faster — job growth is theoretically limited only by labor supply, and a lot more labor is sitting idle today than usual.

Supply - side scalability concerns the ability of a business to use capital, labor and resources more efficiently as the business grows.

Could companies be substituting capital for labor as the labor supply dries up and becomes more expensive?

The latest report from The Economist Intelligence Unit, «No more excuses — responsible supply chains in a globalised world ``, found that four in five respondent companies described their firms as having responsible supply chains, yet only under a quarter were actually addressing key issues such as climate change or child labor.

That's because the proper equipment and supply item can help foodservice operators maximize their use of capital by managing those pesky little variables that can often make or break their businesses, such as proper labor, food cost, food safety and much more.

Four concrete and relevant targets by 2025 In order to secure the future of chocolate, Barry Callebaut's new sustainability strategy includes four targets that the company expects to achieve by 2025 and that address the biggest sustainability challenges in the chocolate supply chain: • Eradicate child labor from its supply chain • Lift more than 500,000 cocoa farmers out of poverty • Become carbon and forest positive • Have 100 % sustainable ingredients in all its products CEO Antoine de Saint - Affrique says: «The targets we have set ourselves after a thorough materiality analysis are bold, and we recognize that we do not have all the answers.

Once you receive your Slavery Footprint score, the app makes it easy for consumers to tell their favorite brands that they care about this issue and, more importantly, ask brands to independently assess if forced labor is used at any point in their supply chains.

The birth supplies were assembled, but I couldn't find the little hats that I had crocheted, so I spent a little time in early labor making one more hat, just to be sure we'd have one.

If you're uninsured, or if your insurance will only cover a portion of your labor and delivery, you might consider just doing it at home, where you won't be responsible for much more than your midwife's fees and any supplies you may need.

Of course some states have labor unions that drive up the costs of labor, food supplies in rural areas cost more and expenses are out of control in others.

«The supply of U.S. - born / residents, particularly men, to science and engineering appears to be more responsive to labor market conditions than the supply of the foreign born,» Freeman continues.

This obligate arrangement - in which one partner relinquishes its own mitochondrial power supply to likely become reliant on its partner for cellular energy - suggests a genetic division of labor that makes the resulting lichen more efficient, Tripp said, thereby perhaps conferring an ecological advantage.

After estimating that new teacher supply has declined by more than 20 percent between 2007 and 2016, they calculate that implementing high - stakes evaluation reform and repealing tenure shrunk the teacher labor supply.

However, it is the case that labor supply policies will be more effective if we also work on the labor demand side, that is we also work directly to affect the behavior of businesses.

Early childhood programs may increase the quantity and quality of the labor supply of the parents of child participants by providing low - cost or free child care, or by otherwise encouraging more self - sufficiency.

Among the great many gifts of supplies, resources, money, labor, words of encouragement, and more were the following: • School supplies, clothing, and letters of encouragement from the Van Buren Schools (Van Buren, Ohio)

The average U.S. household of four spends about $ 5,800 on food at home annually and hundreds more on housekeeping supplies and personal care products that are also common purchases in supermarkets, according to the most recent Consumer Expenditure Survey by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The US labor market remains tight, China continues to cut commodity exports, global supplies are tighter, and more US fiscal spending is slated for 2018.

With lumber prices skyrocketing, skilled labor in short supply and new limits on state and local tax deductions already raising the effective cost of homeownership, a rise in short - term interest rates will force even more potential buyers to the sidelines.

The average U.S. household of four spends about $ 5,800 on food at home annually and hundreds more on housekeeping supplies and personal care products that are also common purchases in supermarkets, according to the most recent Consumer Expenditure Survey by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A report by the Cornell University Global Labor Institute stated that the pipeline «will create no more than 2,500 - 4,650 temporary direct construction jobs for two years, according to TransCanada's own data supplied to the State Department.»

The brute - force, labor intensive legal delivery model is being replaced by a digitized one where repetitive tasks are automated; products are replacing many services; delivery cycles are compressed; costs are reduced and / or proportionate to supply and demand; and lawyers are deployed to perform tasks that require differentiated judgment, skills, or knowledge and / or working from more efficient, lower - cost tech - enabled delivery models.

«The country's healthy labor market is translating to greater job security, but affordability is not improving because home prices in some areas are still outpacing incomes by three times or more because of tight supply.

We can expect to see more gradual gains going forward as challenges related to increased demand kick in — including everything from tightened supplies of developable lots and skilled labor to the rising cost of building materials.

«Builders will need to focus more on homes geared for moderate incomes, partner with the government on initiatives to transform distressed urban neighborhoods and overcome labor shortages through a combination of workforce development training and pressure to ease artificial restrictions on the supply of labor,» added Kirchner.

Supply of housing has been extremely tight, so this presentation seeks to shed light on the factors impeding the construction of more homes to meet demand, especially rising material cost and labor supply constrSupply of housing has been extremely tight, so this presentation seeks to shed light on the factors impeding the construction of more homes to meet demand, especially rising material cost and labor supply constrsupply constraints.

In fact, Corporate Real Estate 2010's (CoRE 2010) focus in the strategic location arena reveals that corporations are treating their location decisions more seriously, integrating them with global corporate strategies, and prioritizing them along the lines of proximity to customers and suppliers, to emerging markets, and to knowledge workers, as well as the accompanying de-emphasis on access to cheap labor, as a Gallup survey on CoRE 2010 indicates.

If you'd rather hire a pro to more quickly, and probably more expertly, transform a room, plan to pay around $ 100 to $ 300 an hour for labor, in addition to supplies.

A task that can take hours or days, and a lot of labor by a human item checker can be made much more efficient by an automated drone programmed to read RFID tags, says Joe Dunlap, a managing director who heads the supply chain services division at CBRE.

I think on TV they must not factor in all the labor or supply costs because they really do seem to do so much more than would normally be possible for the rest of us on that budget.