Despite pressures on attendance and sponsorships in recent years, the sports industry can bank on the resiliency of television money and labor peace (the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball recently signed long term labor deals) to provide a steady backbone throughout the industry, Fitch thinks.
Both praised Ms Gillard's leadership and predicted Labor would win a third term in government.
We would, to use the economists' term, increase labor productivity, not decrease it.
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In the long-term, a labor shortage is good news for the Chinese economy, as it will induce Chinese companies to innovate.
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Put another way, are the Greens cashing in on Labor's long-term decline?
But to get to binding arbitration, the parties need to reach impasse, a term that in labor law means deadlock, with no hope of resolution.
Indirectly, the same is true in the labor markets: long-term unemployment benefits can be seen as an attempt to put off adjustments of wage levels.
Best Buy is trying to improve its website by enhancing its online product descriptions and selection, but it faces higher operating costs than its online-only competitors due to the high labor costs and long-term leases of its more than 1, 400 stores.
They would simply lend the fruits of their labor to others with near-term demand desires.
Nor is it simply an argument over depressed American wages versus the long-term productivity of American labor.
The result has been a steady rise in "early term" elective inductions using labor-stimulating drugs.
The expansionary monetary policies pursued by Japan as well as the U.S. and European nations have thus far not been accompanied by fiscal reforms required to halt deficits and the accumulation of debt, or the fundamental structural reforms required in labor and capital markets to restore long term economic growth.
There's only one way to prod employers to hire the long-term unemployed: super-tight labor markets.
Since Czech playwright Karel Capek popularized the term ("robota" means "forced labor" in Czech) in 1921, we have imagined what robots could do.
"Many young people now experience long-term unemployment right from the start of their labor market entry, " said Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General, during a presentation of the report's findings.
There may be bumps like the recent contraction in the labor market, but we need to look beyond the short term.
According to Fitch, the revenue and debt-service outlook for MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL teams and stadiums is stable because of guaranteed long-term television deals that are increasing in value, labor peace between owners and players and solid attendance at most events.
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The long-term unemployed face an especially difficult path back to the labor market.
Both sides of the labor market, as well as national governments focused on long-term economic growth, want education that is less expensive, responsive to changing economic conditions, and delivered to students at their pace.
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What is crucial is the issue of the long term unemployed as certain processes are outsourced to cheaper, offshore labor centres.
The unexpected drop in the Conference Board's consumer confidence index to 53.1 in September, from 54.5 in August, provoked a "dollar-safety" play, but Chau believes the market is waiting for Friday's labor report to set the tone for the dollar's near-term future.
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.
More broadly, India's current sharp growth recession has shown that reforms in land, labor and other natural resources are necessary to improve the economy's long-term potential.
Most Israelis explained away Sharon's behavior in his first term as the price he was forced to pay for his coalition government with Labor.
He finally chose to leave when senior aides at the White House were told that if they stayed past Labor Day, they would be obliged to remain till the end of the president's term in January 2009.
But he did say that the White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten had said if anybody stayed past Labor Day of this year, that they would have to stay until the end of the term, that it would be - I assume that means there will be just too little time between now and the end of the term to do anything else.
This in turn gives individualized organizations the chance to be much more selective in hiring (larger labor pool) and it can aid in retention, a key to sustainable effectiveness and long-term success.
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Homeowners typically sign a long-term contract of 15 to 20 years with the companies that pay for solar equipment and labor and make sure the solar panels work properly during the lifetime of the contract.
While the shadow inventory and a clogged up foreclosure pipeline present challenges, if the economy improves to the point where the labor market begins to seriously recover, it should be possible to overcome those obstacles in the medium-term.
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He is expected to have solid support from organized labor as well as the Hispanic community, which is eager to have representation in Obama's second-term Cabinet.
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