As businesses raise prices to cope with inflation, the cost of labor proportionally lowers.
To get around these roadblocks, the Fed lowers the cost of labor through inflation.
It reflects the increased cost of what the manufacturer charges, the cost of labor, etc.
Raising the cost of labor raises the incentive for employers to find ways to use less labor.
Realistically, as has happened throughout the region, the cost of labor in Myanmar will start to rise.
Well, the cost of the new technology is going down even as Obama is driving the cost of labor up.
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As products become more high-tech, production is more complicated, and the quality, rather than the cost of labor, becomes a priority.
Many other game companies will open up studios around the world--often in India and China, where the cost of labor is lower.
During the last expansion, the cost of labor to employers did rise.
But making anything in France is expensive in large part because the cost of labor, including salaries and benefits, is so high.
However the cost of labor is often inversely proportional to the overall ease of doing business in a country and Myanmar is no exception.
Despite the higher cost of labor in the U.S., the company listened to its customers who said they would think better of the company if it stayed put.
They can double the cost of labor in some cases.
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The Chinese government recognizes that these jobs will eventually be lost to countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, or Indonesia which can be even more competitive on the cost of labor than China.
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It seems driven by an ethic of developing protocols that will raise productivity, and thus demand for higher skilled, higher paying, jobs, without driving up taxes, cost of labor, or cost of other inputs.
In fact, hiking the current levy on payrolls to shore up Social Security and Medicare would have the perverse effect of weakening the economy by raising the cost of labor and reducing the rewards of productive work.
One of the simplest ways would be to eliminate payroll taxes, which would lower the cost of labor in the US by roughly 17 percent and offset that loss of revenues with taxes on materials, energy, pollution, and land.
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This new security situation, the ongoing reduction in tariffs and the relative low cost of labor force will be translated into an increase in foreign investment in sectors such as gold and coal mining, oil exploration and manufacturing, to name a few.
The White House's support of card check, which would do away with the secret ballot for union-organizing elections, and of forcing mandatory arbitration on companies that can't reach an agreement with their unions would artificially increase the cost of labor and hamper job creation.
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Over this decade's expansion, the cost of employing labor rose by an average of 25%.
Existing programs do this in part by transferring rents to the firms that utilize work related visas, but this comes with the cost of distorted labor markets.
"But I think the third thing is China has matured to a point where it is no longer a low cost center of labor ... in cutting edge businesses, it wants to really develop its own brand and its own next generation of technology, to walk into the fight with your own swords by investing in the next Google, the next Apple, " Law said.
Since labor cost represents about 15% of the cost of an iPhone and a Nokia expert thinks labor cost is a mere 5% of that total then Apple should have plenty of room to negotiate 10% lower costs in the other parts of the iPhone cost structure.
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.
We have to balance cost of shipping final products with the cost of shipping components vs labor cost s vs quality vs many other factors.
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If the yuan weakens, the cost of shipping, labor and imported inputs necessary to make saleable goods must rise.
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