"The major problem in Hong Kong is labor cost, and the major problem about labor cost is rent, or mortgage rates, " says David Roche of investment group Independent Strategy.
At United, as throughout the industry, labor relations remains a problem.
The whole fiscal cliff and debt ceiling problem has also affected labor markets, as firms, particularly in defense sectors, prepare for lay-offs in the face of uncertainty.
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The IMF pointed to reforming pensions, health care, and state-owned enterprises, improving tax compliance and budget practices, dealing with potential problem banks, improving labor flexibility, and streamlining business regulation.
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In the future, that may be a bigger problem for the NFL than labor negotiations.
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Emerging markets are in a productivity boom and leveraging up, spending more and as a result creating squeezes in commodity and labor prices, creating a meaningful inflation problem.
He believes quite strongly that a dollar of infrastructure is a smart investment, not just because it creates jobs but because it creates the kinds of jobs which address this deep problem that we have in the labor market.
Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the powerful head of the House Committee on Education and Labor, says that's the heart of the problem.
The problem with taking an elastic approach to the labor market is that very few professional services firms really know how to manage freelance labor over time.
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By the late 1970s, the labor unions had come to be widely blamed as the fundamental problem.
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Most graduates do eventually find decent jobs, but the problem will increase as more of them hit the labor pool or if the economy stalls.
While the government has enacted laws to curb child labor, the rules have so far done little to curtail the problem.
The second problem is the potential in the future for a real labor squeeze when the baby boomers start retiring, around 2005.
The problem lies in how the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the cost of living.
Another major problem for the U.S. economy, and for labor markets specifically, is the sequester.
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Even business and labor leaders whose livelihood depends on the production and use of fossil fuels acknowledge the problem.
The biggest problem, from an economic perspective, is that despite all these ills attacking the labor force, government stats show the average worker is twice as productive today as he or she was 40 years ago, thanks to technology, meaning that an occasionally distracted employee is a small price for a business to pay for so much more output.
Retention has historically been a problem for many manufacturers in China, which rely on the country's vast migrant labor pool.
The underlying problem is that of profitability, it is much more profitable to invest capital overseas where labor costs are lower.
The biggest problem areas, said Harvard University economist Lawrence Katz, are young people who haven't entered the labor force and a large number of people who have applied for long-term disability benefits after losing their jobs.
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