Sentences with phrase «where labour costs»

But publishers and online retailers warn that when Amazon expands its retail offerings, it will struggle to replicate its efficient business model in Brazil, where labour costs are high, taxes complex and less than 20 per cent of roads are paved.

There's a familiar pattern in the company's history: keep high - stakes R&D in Toronto; punt lower margin commodity business to sites where labour costs are lower (Celestica operates 20 facilities in 14 countries including Mexico, Taiwan and Malaysia).

Not exact matches

Labour costs, the paper finds, played «a lesser role» in manufacturers» decisions on where to set up shop.

«If mom was a lawyer and dropped out of the labour force for four or five years, the family gave up the opportunity cost of maybe $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 a year in order to bring that child to a point where he could enter the education system,» says Ward.

This is certainly true in East Lancashire, where a recent meeting of local politicians convened by Labour grandee Jack Straw resolved to examine the feasibility of creating a single cost - saving authority.

Also Ed is talking about a closed primary where you have to register as being a Labour supporter before you can vote which will be a logistical mess for the elderly and disabled and will cost a bomb.

Under the previous Labour government, the NHS lost hundreds of millions of pounds through the treatment of foreign patients where the costs were not recovered.

May and her ministers — buoyant after their byelection victory in Copeland, Cumbria, where they seized the former Labour stronghold from Jeremy Corbyn's party — are determined to continue broadening their appeal beyond Tory heartlands, not least by helping those struggling with the costs of housing and rent.

As prospective Labour Mayor of London candidate, Diane addressed the London housing market, where houses in her constituency of Hackney can now cost # 1 million plus.

The cost of living and tuition fees were touted as reasons for Canterbury's shock result, where Labour won a seat for the first time since 1918.

A wholesale transfer of capital from the wealthy to the people through nationalisation of infrastructure assets is unlikely, but there are other areas at the margins where Ed's team are actively considering significant market intervention in the interests of redistribution (or «solving the cost of living crisis», as Labour's tired mantra has it).

On this basis it can be argued that the BNP cost Labour at least 9 seats in 2010: the seats where Labour lost the seat, and the winning margin was less than the margin of the BNP (votes taken from Labour) over UKiP (votes taken from Con / LD): Amber Valley, Bradford East, Burnley, Corby, Dewsbury, Nuneaton, Sherwood, Thurrock, Warwickshire North (7 Conservative gains, 2 Lib Dem).

However, even in the US where the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) has been nominally independent for over a century, the choice of what to include in the Consumer Basket (the official basket of items chosen to reflect cost - of - living, and measured by the men with clipboards) is not always honest.

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.

Most materials are therefore sourced in countries where the cost of labour is cheap.

It's experience and knowledge of the world's labour and compliance laws means it is able to answer legal questions quickly and cost effectively, bringing in and managing leading local expertise where required.

How to build these technology refreshes into an outsourcing agreement and to properly account for the costs in a market where equipment costs are declining and labour costs are stable or increasing is a challenge.

But they are just one of the many casualties of the changing legal market, where downward pressures for cost, and increase ability to make demands on otherwise unemployed or underemployed labour supplies.

This is not the case for production supervisors and managers where the decline in employment, experienced over the past ten years is expected to continue into 2018 as North American manufacturers struggle to survive moving their production overseas to cut labour costs.