Abstract: With rising of the labor price, labor cost has become the key to determine and control the construction cost.

摘要：随着人工价格不断上涨，人工费用已成为建设项目价格确定与控制的关键。

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The low labor cost is a main comparative advantage of China's, manifested chiefly by low cost, large quantity and sufficient supply of rural labor force.

中国的比较优势很重要的一条就是劳动力成本低，主要表现在农村劳动力成本低，数量大，供给充裕。

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The value of commodity has an attribute of cost. Abstract labor is in effect a lifespan spent in a specific labor, which constitutes the final cost in producing commodities.

商品价值具有成本属性，抽象劳动实际上是人们在具体劳动中消耗的生命时光，这是生产商品的终极成本；

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"While cost remains a major factor in decisions about where to off-source, the quality of the labor pool is gaining importance, and this includes English language skills."

VOA: special.2011.01.21

A new report estimates the cost of forced labor.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

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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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.

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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.

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