Sentences with phrase «of low labour costs»

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Fuelled by a low peso and cheap labour costs, Mexico's booming manufacturing industry has already overtaken Canada's in terms of the dollar value of exports to the U.S. Indeed, Canada is contending with more than just low oil prices.

If you don't pay special attention to that labour component, you may not reap the full benefit of lower production costs.

«If (German Finance Minister Wolfgang) Schaueble's dogma for a multi-speed Europe and economic zones of low - cost labour is not abandoned, Europe will be brought to the brink of dissolution,» Tsipras was quoted by Realnews as saying.

Add in all the perks of producing at home — such as eliminating exchange rate uncertainty, lower chances of supply chain disruptions, a more plentiful supply of qualified labour and the synergies that develop when the R&D guys can easily chat with factory floor employees — and the overall costs of building a new factory in the U.S. or China are roughly equal.

But after a series of difficult labour negotiations under CEO Calin Rovinescu, Air Canada finally obtained the concessions it needed last year to hire new employees at reduced pay for a low - cost carrier to target the vacation market.

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

The huge pool of low - cost labour that this has brought into play has put sustained downward pressure on a wide range of prices of internationally traded goods.

U.S. talks this year closed the gap between Canadian and U.S. workers, raising wages south of the border while the Canadian dollar lowered labour costs in Canada.

The comparative advantage sweet - spot for Canada's rust belt is the combination of a high - skilled labour force, significant quality controls and a low cost of living.

Low overall inflation has, to a large extent, been a result of relatively subdued growth in unit labour costs.

The NAB survey indicates that the growth of labour costs has picked up over the year to June, though the rate of growth in this series is still quite low.

While «outsourcing» for low - cost labour may have motivated outward investment in the last decade, the new driver of investment is clearly domestic economic growth in Asia.

The combination of this competitive job market with a lower cost of living than many Western countries means many Chinese workers are willing to work for less, which presents an opportunity for global companies to save on labour costs.

Strong labour markets and historically low borrowing costs have allowed Canada's households to amass one of the highest debt - to - income ratios in the developed world.

The evidence that is available about food production and processing, but not included in the Green Paper, is that the sector's businesses are in the main under considerable financial pressure as a result of falling real commodity prices, rising input costs, increased government regulations, rising labour costs, and lower retail margins.

Economically speaking, the selling price of organic rice in the Ebro Delta is higher than conventional rice, and permits greater profit to farmers, in spite of the major cost of labour (organic farming of this particular system needs 25 percent more than conventional farming) and lower yields -LRB--15 percent in organic paddy fields).

Planned birth at home in low risk women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour was associated with significant cost savings and a significant decrease in adverse perinatal outcomes avoided.

Fig 2 Cost effectiveness plane: planned birth at home compared with planned birth in obstetric units for nulliparous low risk women without complicating conditions at start of care in labour

For low risk women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour, the mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios associated with switches from planned birth in obstetric unit to non-obstetric unit settings fell in the south west quadrant of the cost effectiveness plane (representing, on average, reduced costs and worse outcomes).25 The mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios ranged from # 143382 (alongside midwifery units) to # 497595 (home)(table 4 ⇓).

In this study of the cost effectiveness of alternative planned places of birth in England in women at low risk of complications before the onset of labour, we found that the cost of intrapartum and after birth care, and associated related complications, was less for births planned at home, in a free standing midwifery unit, or in an alongside midwifery unit compared with planned births in an obstetric unit.

Restriction of the analyses to low risk women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour narrowed the cost differences between planned places of birth: total mean costs were # 1511 for an obstetric unit, # 1426 for an alongside midwifery unit, # 1405 for a free standing midwifery unit, and for # 1027 the home (table 2 ⇓).

Profiles of resource use, and their associated unit costs, for each planned place of birth are reported in detail in appendices 1 and 2 on bmj.com.25 The total mean costs per low risk woman planning birth in the various settings at the start of care in labour were # 1631 ($ 1950, $ 2603) for an obstetric unit, # 1461 ($ 1747, $ 2332) for an alongside midwifery unit, # 1435 ($ 1715, $ 2290) for a free standing midwifery unit, and # 1067 ($ 1274, $ 1701) for the home (table 1 ⇓).

There are calls for labour market reform, for lower labour costs (ie lower wages), for «renewed efforts» to get school leavers into training, for better use of an existing EU jobs website to «facilitate the cross-border placement of young people».

Labour does not offer a great deal more, focused primarily on low - cost initiatives and on changing mindsets, although the party does also offer a National Refuge Fund and wider access to Legal Aid for victims of domestic violence.

The benefits of the agreement are twofold, Labour gaining candidates with lower election costs and the party gaining influence within a Labour movement.

Commenting on the development, Labour Analyst, Austin Gammey, cautioned that it will be challenging for employers as Ghana's economy compels businesses to offer lower wages due to high cost of operations.

Ed Miliband has at least taken advice and given the correct answer to the strike we do not like strikes and we think they should get around the table but we do understand why people are striking, they are striking because they are agreeing with labour the cost of living crises is attacking the low paid and the professional teachers and nurses.

That means focusing on the lower - hanging fruit in terms of cutting costs - such as cutting interest rates, which are currently up to 6.1 %, and have been attacked as bafflingly high by a long line of former Conservative and Labour education ministers.

First, corporate profits are booming because of declining commodity prices and a weak jobs market that has driven down the cost of labour (the share of U.S. GDP going to labour income is at its lowest level in 50 years).

They enjoy some key advantages — younger / faster growing populations (with far lower entitlements), labour costs that are a fraction of developed market costs, control of a major portion of the world's natural resources, low / stable debt ratios, a 50 % share of world GDP, and GDP growth expected to be twice that of developed markets.

For games made in countries with lower labour costs or with strong subsidies for digital industry, like CD PROJEKT's The Witcher series growing into a behemoth, the risk is smaller (not to mention they own GOG, an actual games platform of their own).

(See Weber Thompson and Chris Hardwicke) Yet millions of acres of agricultural land in North America and Britain have been taken out of production, their output replaced with imports from nations with lower labour costs and more sunlight.

There will actually be an insourcing of jobs as it will result in it being less profitable to grow or manufacture goods and transported over long distances from places where there is lower labour costs and environmental standards rather than done in relative proximity to where the consumers are located.

Sebastian Runde, an organic farmer says they have managed to produce a shirt that is made 100 % in Italy: «Producing the T - shirts abroad in a country with low labour costs was out of question».

Much of what we take for granted in modern law firms — hourly billable targets, ever - increasing workloads, lengthening partnership tracks, client hoarding by partners, and more — can be traced at least in part to firms» established ability to dictate the terms of employment to a fairly low - cost and easily leveraged labour pool.

Following the training, workers will be placed with outsourcing vendors in the regions that provide offshore services to American companies looking to take advantage of the Asian subcontinent's low labour costs.

Finally, reliant as it is on volunteer labour and with only an annual meeting of all delegates, the ULCC has a rather lower budget than any «permanent» (I use the term loosely) provincial law commission, all of which have a permanent staff, however small, and the general costs of an on - going enterprise that releases full reports.

One option is for this type of work to be outsourced to a lower cost labour centre such as India.