Sentences with phrase «with low labor»

It stands in contrast to the models of online education that preceded it, which involved either highly ranked institutions offering online degrees that cost as much as their in - person equivalents, lower - ranked institutions offering inexpensive online degrees with low labor - market returns, or a variety of institutions offering free massive open online courses (MOOCs), with unclear returns and very high attrition rates.

One district might be in an area with low labor costs, which would make scratch - cooking more feasible, while another might have to pay top dollar for labor.

«Firms with low labor costs should be most insulated.»

«Firms with low labor costs should be most insulated from accelerating wages, a trend that our economists expect will persist in 2018.»

To drive down labor costs, a company replaces a regulated, protected class of worker (members of a union) with a non-protected worker (by relocating to non-union states or countries with a lower labor cost).

As Japanese rivals grabbed business away from them, U.S. electronics companies moved production to countries with lower labor costs.

There are many challenges facing us, such as offshore manufacturing with lower labor costs and pricing.

It's also a very tough market, with strict regulations, loose enforcement (see German - brand diesels), and relatively strong unions that make it hard to move assembly plants to former Soviet satellite countries with lower labor costs.

Because of the size of Germany, and those allied with them in the Eurozone, the Euro is a hard currency, harder than many cultures / nations with lower labor productivity would like.

National residential «soft cost» averages drop as the solar market opens up in several states with lower labor and transaction costs compared to some of the incumbent big solar states like California (where costs have been closer to $ 3.70 Watt (dc)-RRB-.

Not exact matches

(The latest job report from the Department of Labor, out Friday, also shows a sharp slowdown in hiring in September, with gains in previous months revised lower.)

The labor market is tighter than it has been in decades, with unemployment near an all - time low at 4.1 % and unfilled job openings near an all - time high at about 6 million.

With lowering levels of entrepreneurship in the country, chances are that other countries could provide greater competition, often at lower labor rates, creating increased pressure on U.S. entrepreneurs.

While President Obama has supported a few proposals that benefit high - growth, high - tech entrepreneurs (like the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, most of his policies have been hostile to the interests of Main Street business owners, particularly those running labor - intensive businesses with low - wage employees.

«County and ZIP code level data suggest that areas with long commute times — which benefit disproportionally from lower gasoline prices — have experienced a boost in their labor and housing markets relative to other locations,» Shan and Pandl wrote.

With so many U.S. corporations racing to the bottom — moving manufacturing to foreign countries for cheap labor and no environmental responsibility, taking advantage of the H1 - B Visa program to bring cheap workers in, lowering benefits and eliminating pension plans — it's refreshing to learn that some companies are taking the exact opposite approach.

The majority of the best cities were located in the Midwest and east of the U.S. Carbondale, Illinois, came in second and also has the lowest labor costs with a median annual income of $ 17,764.

The value of that box was more than $ 100, and given the low margins on food products, the labor involved with individually wrapping ingredients and the costly Styrofoam packaging with cool packs, this clearly was not a cheap giveaway.

«I don't see raising the target range for the fed funds rate above its current low level in 2015 as being consistent with the pursuit of the kind of labor market outcomes that we are charged with delivering,» he said.

Some experts question whether the ACA's employer mandate makes much, if any, difference when there's a solid business case for providing health care: With unemployment low and the labor market tight, benefits give employers an advantage in recruiting and retaining the best workers.

«With gasoline prices remaining low (providing a huge windfall to U.S. consumers), confidence sky - high and the buoyancy in labor market activity likely to bolster household income, we expect consumer spending activity to rebound strongly in the coming months,» Mulraine said.

Cyclical names and companies with relatively low labor costs may be some of the best bets, according to Goldman's David Kostin.

While it has some of the lowest labor costs in the developing world, Bangladesh, with rampant corruption, congested roads and frequent unrest, is a tough place to do business.

Many workers retire with no or very low pensions, mostly because their participation into the formal labor market had been occasional and their contributions low.

But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.

Minnesota also has the 15th lowest business - tax rate in the nation, along with a highly - educated labor force of 1.6 million people, making it a worthwhile option for any entrepreneur.

In addition, Mulally negotiated a landmark labor agreement with the United Auto Workers in 2009 that eased onerous work rules and introduced a 50 percent lower wage for new factory hires.

But there are plenty of growth industries with low - capital intensity — in other words, they rely more on labor than equipment.

And with wage growth and the labor participation rate both stuck at historic lows, we can expect the economy to keep growing at its current rate for some time.

While contractors with specialized skills may be able to negotiate with a company individually in order to obtain good pay and benefits, lower - skilled contractors have little power to negotiate on their own and are not covered under the federal labor laws that allow employees to come together in unions.

DUBNER: So, to summarize your overall argument about our rise and fall of American growth: would it be an overstatement to say that there was a lot of low - hanging fruit — physical and labor, and all other kinds of fruit that we picked beautifully and ate hungrily, and we did really well with — and that those things, once used up, that kind of gain will never appear again as far as you can see?

The relatively quick upturn, fueled by low interest rates, has left the industry struggling with a greying labor pool and huge demand.

The higher wage would boost labor income by 1.3 percent by 2019, with just 27 percent of those gains going to low - income households.

And if Macron is able to achieve some success with labor reform, I think we could see operating margins in France rising higher, unemployment going lower and the overall prospects for gross domestic product (GDP) growth improving.

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

Appeals court sides with lower court on Department of Labor's treatment of fixed indexed annuities in its fiduciary rule.

Businesses benefit by lowering recruitment costs, improving attrition rates, optimizing labor in relation to demand signals, and improving the customer experience with happier, more engaged employees.

Labor market reforms have expanded the workforce in Japan, helping explain why wage growth remains limited even with the country's unemployment rate at three - decade lows.

You can imagine what happened with real estate taxed so low and labor taxed so high.

The Labor Department is examining whether Wells Fargo & Co pushed participants in low - cost corporate 401 (k) plans to roll their holdings into more expensive individual retirement accounts at the bank, according to a person familiar with the inquiry the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

April 26 The Labor Department is examining whether Wells Fargo & Co pushed participants in low - cost corporate 401 (k) plans to roll their holdings into more expensive individual retirement accounts at the bank, according to a person familiar with the inquiry the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

During his speech Friday, Powell said with unemployment at 4.1 percent — the lowest level in nearly two decades — the labor market was «in the neighborhood of maximum employment.»

A lower tax on land rents leaves more to be capitalized into bank loans, and hence inflates the price of housing — while government revenue is balanced by burdening labor and industry with income and sales taxes.

Available housing inventory in the U.S. is at historical lows and homebuilders are faced with high costs and labor shortages.

In October 2017, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the national unemployment rate stood at 4.1 percent, with some states reaching even lower rates (North Dakota and Colorado recorded 2.5 percent and 2.7 percent, respectively, that same month).

Consumer spending is up, optimism is high and we have a robust labor market with unemployment at a 17 - year low of 4.1 percent.

Unemployment data underlined the extent of the recovery in labor markets, with the ratio of jobless workers falling to its lowest level since 2009, although around a tenth of the workforce still remained out of work.

Unemployment is also generally lower than the national average in this state, with July 2017 estimates at 4.3 % compared to the national rate of 4.4 %, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The latest numbers signal that dangerously low inflation — which Japan struggled with for two decades and the U.S. central bank has labored in recent years to avoid — is at Europe's front door.

But the prescription offered by the Taylor rule changes significantly if one instead assumes, as I do, that appreciable slack still remains in the labor market, and that the economy's equilibrium real federal funds rate — that is, the real rate consistent with the economy achieving maximum employment and price stability over the medium term — is currently quite low by historical standards.