The presence of multinationals also helps to develop a country's pool of skilled Labour and, when they operate in joint ventures, to disseminate new technology and ideas.

跨国公司的出现也帮助培养了一大批技术熟练的劳动力，并且当他们在合资企业中工作时也传播了新技术和新观念。

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These benefits include the ready availability of customers, specialised suppliers, a pool of skilled Labour, or the tricks of the trade that a firm can learn almost by osmosis from its neighbours.

这些好处包括现成的顾客、专门的供应商、大量的技工或一家公司几乎可以潜移默化地从其邻近的公司那里学到经营之道。

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The city's Labour pool tends to be highly-skilled, and the impact of the recession was mostly felt by the lower-skilled.

这个城市的劳动力往往是高技能人才，而经济衰退影响到的大多只是更低技能的人。

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Mind you big box stores are still labour intensive, the only difference is, instead of a lot of people owning and running their own stores one entity owns and runs the place with low-skilled labour from the pool of people who have been run out of business.

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Traditionally, productivity growth has slowed as expansions have matured, with firms obliged to draw less-skilled workers from the depleted pool of labour.

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Other bright ideas include getting local firms to pool information on new markets and to work more actively on fixing problems such as shortages of skilled labour.

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