Other labor-intensive jobs, like attaching radiator hoses and pumps, is farmed out to suppliers .
For American workers the most worrying thing about all this is the flight of brain-intensive jobs to India.
Such outflows hurt capital intensive U.S. companies and destroy U.S. manufacturing jobs relative to the less capital intensive service sector.
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And the types of jobs created by IP-intensive industries are among our highest-paying, up to 30 percent higher than the national average.
Farmers have moved towards more capital-intensive production and cut jobs.
Another cited study, by researchers at Brandeis University, shows that technology-intensive service firms added jobs at a rate of 5.1% from 2001 to 2009, while employment overall shrank by .5%.
Employer demand is shifting to jobs that are analytical and knowledge-intensive, which favors those with the right talents.
Because heavy industry is capital-intensive, it creates few jobs, which is one reason why wages have not kept pace with GDP.
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The intention is to reduce crime, preserve jobs for locals, and promote more capital-intensive industry.
The 17 are being sent to undergo 60 to 90 days of intensive refresher training on how to do their jobs.
There are multiple studies that show how much more labor intensive renewables are and how they create more jobs per unit of energy created.
Among the technology-intensive manufacturing firms in her study, however, jobs contracted 34.3% in the 2001 to 2009 period.
Among them are routine but vital tasks that were labour-intensive before the computing revolution: manufacturing and number-crunching jobs that used to pay handsomely.
In labour-intensive sectors, France has become highly automated, and many new jobs are temporary.
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The intensive energy users making steel and cement have threatened to take their jobs abroad if energy costs go up too far.
The energy-intensive industries account for around 2% of UK GDP and 2% of jobs.
Furthermore, oil-dependent governments, facing a population boom and realizing that they need to diversify their economy to create jobs and wealth, are subsidizing the industrial sector to manufacture plastics, chemicals and aluminum, all energy-intensive goods.
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It would create few jobs, a fact that turns off many African politicians, who tend to like national projects to be labour-intensive.
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Clothing manufacture is highly labour intensive, and even market leaders like Levi's are finding it more and more difficult to maintain jobs in the industrialised countries.
Their proposals to promote more private-sector jobs for the poor by cutting employers' national insurance contributions and shifting the burden of taxation on to capital-intensive activities from labour-intensive ones merit further consideration.
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