While cities with low unemployment might be the easiest areas for some to land a job, there may be little diversity in the industries hiring, the cost of living can be high, and the required skill sets can be too specific.
Another big reason not to invest is the cost of hiring and firing workers.
On some stretches toll revenue barely covers the cost of hiring toll collectors, let alone interest payments.
Proposals to close all public toilets have been axed along with increasing the cost of hiring sports pitches.
Hefei offers a well-educated work force, sometimes for about a third of the cost of hiring in Shanghai.
And the comparison understates the cost of hiring in Brazil: its payroll taxes are among the world's highest.
The mandate will force employers to buy the most expensive health insurance for their workers, ballooning the cost of hiring.
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The reason why is pretty basic: When we devalue we're actually lowering real wage rates, thus reducing the cost of hiring.
But in a struggling economy that equilibrium point, beyond which an increased cost of hiring unquestionably kills jobs, is always lower.
This is particularly true if the cost of hiring more prosecutors and regulators will result in a net positive to the government fisc.
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Crowdsourcing is generally cheaper and faster than hiring temps and can cost companies less than half as much as more traditional outsourcing firms.
Technology cannot cut the cost of hiring Madonna, but it can cut many other costs, especially as digital distribution channels begin to multiply.
For example, can you imagine the cost of hiring every NFL head coach, assistant coach, coordinator, etc. to be a spokesman in your commercials?
The cost of hiring someone to come in to help with bathing, toileting and getting dressed is not covered unless you're also receiving nursing care.
The virtue of this would be two-fold: The money would quickly get into consumers' hands, and the cost of hiring and employing people would be lower.
By using Apex, a school could avoid the cost of hiring a teacher to conduct AP English classes, for example, but could still offer these advanced classes.
Using various indicators to gauge the stringency of product-market regulation and the cost of hiring and firing workers, the study finds strong evidence that heavy-handed regulation reduces productivity.
This week The Wall Street Journal wrote about an intriguing new study looking at the cost of hiring employees from the outside, versus promoting from within.
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Add regulations and taxes which raise the cost of hiring.
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Still, celebrity seeding comes at a fraction of the cost of hiring an A-list endorser, taking out a full-page ad or placing the product in a big budget flick.
The NSR's shortcomings are considerable: a short sailing season, the cost of hiring icebreakers, the operational hazards of extreme northern waters and the environmental risks of oil spills, collisions or sinkings.
The cost of hiring Americans is high, Burns says.
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Ms Gildernew questioned the cost of hiring consultants and was reminded by Jim Wells that Mr McGimpsey's intention to hold a review, headed by William McKee, had not been revealed to the committee.
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Tenure reduces the cost of hiring faculty.
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The red tape involved in starting a new company, the cost of hiring and firing in a protected labour market, and the stigma that is still attached to those who go into business and fail, complete the picture.
If a manager leaves, the total cost of hiring a replacement (the head-hunter fees, the premium required to entice him and the time it takes him to settle into his job) is usually several times the outgoing person's salary.
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He has over 1, 000 open positions, however, he simply won't fill them without knowing what hiring more people will ultimately cost.
But the legal costs and fees to sponsor skilled foreign nationals for temporary visas (thousands of dollars) and for permanent residence (typically tens of thousands of dollars) call into question any supposed cost advantage in hiring foreign nationals.
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The income tax tables show something else: the cost to employers of hiring workers.
We have a fiscal and regulatory environment that has raised the cost and uncertainty of hiring workers while inhibiting productivity improvements.
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