Dongguan is facing mounting problems as factories close down and manufacturing moves to other cities in China and abroad which offer cheaper labor.
Also, some companies fear that it's too hard to fire French workers when things get tough and are instead eyeing countries like Spain, which has recently overhauled its labor rules and can offer some of the same advantages as France.
The fact is that large numbers of illegal immigrants already pay payroll taxes, and there is no reason to believe that the ones who have decided to offer their labor on the black market would not decide to purchase goods on the black market as well.
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Cain and Abel offer the fruits of their labor, grain and sheep respectively, to God as some sort of religious observance.
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With manufacturing wages in America too high (relatively speaking) and labor organizations too hostile, emerging markets offer wider profit margins and lower infrastructure costs.
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The huge European soccer economy is outsourcing its labor supply to countries where labor laws, or at least oversight, offer little protection.
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As a practical matter, Friedman doubted that employers in a competitive labor market would ever find it profitable to offer the closed shop option.
Another option open to Netanyahu is to offer either Yesh Atid or the Labor party to join him -- though that would risk a rift with his traditional ultra-orthodox supporters or even parts of his own party.
One reason start ups are attracted to information-centric business models is that they offer true leverage given that the labor costs required to generate an incremental dollar in revenue are remarkably low when we deal in ones and zeros.
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Gunasegaran, a local research chief at Standard Chartered Bank, sees labor and infrastructure bottlenecks, but even these could offer profit opportunities.
With the negligible surplus, Mr Costello has left the Labor leader, Kim Beazley, little room to offer big promises in the election.
In other words, they had to offer full-time work because competition in the labor market demanded it.
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It's one thing to have a national vaccination campaign--easily enough done--but quite another to rebuild public infrastructure, offer care for maladies ranging from AIDS to obstructed labor (which requires, of course, a Cesarean section, which in turn requires electricity and an operating room and someone who can perform the procedure), and to recruit and train that army of community health workers.
And if SundaySky can continue to offer companies a 200% return on investment and become less labor-intensive in producing videos, it could realize that ambitious vision.
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And beyond the obvious educational and character-building implications for the kids, grownup training would offer broader benefits to society--like cheap, dedicated labor for hospitals, schools and charities.
Some Republicans have also suggested giving small businesses the power to pool together and offer health care at lower prices, just as big companies and labor unions do.
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Most cable providers offer packages with well over 100 channels filled with content unaffected by the labor strike: news, news magazines, sports, movie channels, cooking shows.
It allows them to offer stock options to local employees, a boon in a drum-tight labor market.
The labor lawyers they had retainer agreements with ventured far from their area of legal expertise to offer opinions regarding the propriety of investment consultant conduct.
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Not only is it labor-intensive to check references for people who might not be poised for a job offer, but Jack Harsh, adjunct professor at the University of Richmond Robins School of Business, said that many employers worry about the risk of liability in rejecting a candidate based on poor references.
Ford also will offer buyouts to veteran workers to open up even more Tier II jobs and lower labor costs further.
The labor lawyers that migrate to advising public funds regarding investment matters are courted by class action lawyers that offer to pay enormous referral fees if the public funds they represent join in class actions.
The labor lawyers that migrate to advising public funds regarding investment matters are courted by class-action lawyers that offer to pay them enormous referral fees if they line up public funds as class-action plaintiff clients.
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