Insurance companies operate a system of squeezing the labour rate to repairers, restricting their hours allowed to do the job, and taking unnecessary excess payments off drivers.
After introducing rest breaks and other improvements in working conditions, Mayo and his colleagues found that within a year the labour turnover rate fell to the average elsewhere in the company.
Mr Osborne said the Conservatives would set out further details of how they would cut Britain's deficit at a faster rate than Labour before the general election, adding that they would place more emphasis on spending cuts than tax rises.
So a fall in that rate could be seen as beneficial, as it might make labour more mobile and thus lower the unemployment rate.
"The decrease in the unemployment rate is welcome and the latest labour market figures for Northern Ireland continue to demonstrate that our current unemployment rate compares favourably to the equivalent rates for the UK, European Union and Republic of Ireland, " she said.
Even if job losses in construction and manufacturing begin to push up the unemployment rate, the labour market will still be tight.
Another factor is a rigid labour market and a resulting unemployment rate of nearly 10%.
Later, Mr Blair gave his clearest hint yet that Labour would not raise the top rate of income tax.
Undeterred, in Magdalena Mr Cavallo said that he could slash Argentina's 14.5% unemployment rate through tax and labour reforms, and cut the cost of public services by competition in their provision.
Oxfam cites Terry Smith the head of Tullett Prebon, an interdealer broker, who said he would let any of his 950 staff moved out of London ahead of the 50 percent marginal tax rate imposed by the Labour government.
Retail-sales figures suggest consumers are growing more cautious, and December's surprise jump in the jobless rate raised alarm about the labour market.
The unemployment rate, on the International Labour Organisation's definition, fell to 5.8% in the three months to February, the lowest since the series began in 1984.
Labour markets are tight: the unemployment rate fell to 6.4% in the three months to February, and manufacturers and service companies continue to report shortages of skilled labour.
American firms in particular have long favoured Ireland as a place to set up factories and run service facilities thanks to its well-educated labour force and low corporate-tax rate.
Compared with El Salvador, not only is Ecuador's economy less closely linked to that of the United States but its inflation rate is higher, its labour market more rigid, and its economy still unreformed.
One clear concern in America is the sharp jump in the rate of increase in unit labour costs, to an annual figure of 6.3% in the first quarter, compared with a fall of 1.9% in the same period of 2000.
In the long term, the solution to Germany's slow rate of job creation lies with labour-market reform.
Labour contrasted the Tories' proposal with Ed Miliband's recent announcement that Labour would re-introduce the 10p tax rate.
He said Labour would reverse the cut in the top rate of income tax from 50p to 45p.
Thus high rates of home ownership will lead to less labour force mobility and thus a higher natural rate of unemployment.
Labour's amendment to delay the business rate changes until 2014 was defeated by 246 votes to 316, a majority of 70.
Most Americans say they want a cut in the rate of immigration, but current labour-market demand makes this hard to insist on.
Germany's Federal Labour Agency said the seasonally-adjusted jobless rate was unchanged in December, having added 3, 000 more unemployed people than the previous month.
The 50% tax rate, introduced by the previous Labour government in 2010, brings in little money and has made London the most taxed out of ten financial centres for high net-worth individuals.
The participation rate, the share of the labour force either working or looking for work, has declined steadily since 2007, though it ticked up ever so slightly in September, to 63.6% (see chart).
Some of this is due to an ageing population and some to a rising share of that population in the labour force: the so-called participation rate has jumped a percentage point, to 40%, while slipping for the population as a whole.
America's low rate of inflation and its weak labour market mean that policy needs to remain accommodative, but a modest rise in interest rates would still leave monetary policy extremely loose by past standards, and thus continue to stimulate demand and jobs.
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At the current rate of constructive engagement with New Labour those discordant voices in the Lib Dems which will be heard this weekend fear that their party might sell its birthright, merely to be lost in the crowd in Mr Blair's Big Tent.
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He also said "New Labour is about more than just the top tax rate".
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