That was why we moved to both of these provinces to tap their labor pool.
Technologies are joining brainpower and sometimes muscle from around the world into a common labor pool.
Immigration help shape America's labor pool and economy and opportunities for black Americans.
This in turn would attract a higher quality labor pool and lead to major improvements across the board in education.
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Retention has historically been a problem for many manufacturers in China, which rely on the country's vast migrant labor pool.
As more underqualified university graduates hit the labor pool, they'll pose a growing stability risk if they can't get good jobs.
Davidson pays particular attention to the manufacturing industry, which is often mentioned as suffering acutely from a small skilled labor pool.
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What is the effect of a bigger labor pool on wage rates?
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And with the Memphis metropolitan labor market, we have a labor pool of somewhere around 1.2 million people in the 75-mile radius.
"Foreign workers make up 95 percent of the labor pool, " Whitson says.
As good as the pay in the U.S. is, however, skilled oilfield workers can make much more overseas where the labor pool is tighter.
Most graduates do eventually find decent jobs, but the problem will increase as more of them hit the labor pool or if the economy stalls.
Chongqing also hopes to turn a wave of migration into a labor pool for the low-wage manufacturing industries it is trying to lure to move from China's coastal areas.
Politicians have a big constituency in the freelance labor pool, many of them looking for guidance and help and if they were smart, freelancing would be a major electoral issue.
This in turn gives individualized organizations the chance to be much more selective in hiring (larger labor pool) and it can aid in retention, a key to sustainable effectiveness and long-term success.
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The most basic models of labor supply and demand would suggest that a bigger labor pool depresses wages, and indeed this is the argument taken up by many opponents of more open immigration policy.
The state's growers have rapidly expanded capacity to their orchards in recent years, contributing to 2010's record crop of 110 million boxes, at the same time that growth in the labor pool has stagnated.
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What the president misunderstands is that the corporate profits gained thanks to the efficient utilization of the worldwide labor pool is what attracts the very investment that funds their growth here and around the world.
The disparity is explained by the sobering news that jobless people are simply dropping out of the labor pool, too discouraged even to stay on the rolls of the unemployed that the Labor Department keeps track of.
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Over the past several years economists have warned that China may be reaching the so-called Lewis Turning Point the stage at which the rural surplus labor pool effectively runs dry and wages begin to rapidly increase.
If big international investors were genuinely free to develop markets in China, they would provide the Chinese with a wider range of products and services, and make new and better jobs for that huge, willing labor pool.
Not only does an entrepreneurial path place immigrants in a non-competitive position relative to the existing wage-seeking labor pool, but their ventures that are employer businesses actually create jobs, increasing demand for labor and thereby pushing up wages.
The United States vastly outspends China on defense, but its advantages in any conflict would be diminished by the likelihood that Chinese forces will be fighting close to home, drawing recruits from the same low-cost labor pool that has fueled its economic growth.
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Perhaps rather than taking every element of the report into account, focusing on teacher pay could be a good leaping off point for future reforms, laying the groundwork for more exclusive top-tier education programs and other stepping stones to a more professional teaching labor pool.
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Although the number of university graduates in China has risen from 1 million a year a decade ago to more than 6 million this year, the number of people entering the labor pool with great expectations yet without proper training is, if anything, growing even faster.
President Obama has been in favor of granting more H-1B visas, and loosening policies that would allow foreign graduates to stay on and work in the U.S. Many multinational tech companies, including Microsoft, have called for more H-1B visas to be issued to fill gaps in the skilled labor pool.
The Human Resources and Social Security Department of Guangdong estimated that 10 million workers, or 61% of the province's migrant-labor pool, would head home to see their families for the New Year Holiday, with a return rate of around 90%, leaving a labor shortfall of up to 1.2 million workers after the holiday.
"In a letter Senator Mark Begich wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month, he says 'such an abrupt change in the available labor pool just before the start of the salmon season would have immediate negative consequences for the companies, and the fishermen and communities, which depend on their operations, '" KTVA reported.
China will continue to be a source of low-cost labor because there is a large pool of labor, including young women that need to be employed.
In fact there's a very big pool of labor which, if we ever unlock it, could keep the expansion going.
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